pruriently

'As an analyst I'm obviously quite a pruriently prying person myself.'

On the bridge, at least, he wasn't quizzed to the point of aggravation by pruriently curious crewmen and women.

Zanita came to, glanced around her at the sea of stunned yet pruriently interested faces, and cleared her throat again.

In fact he was pruriently interested in the most intimate details of their conjugal lives, and adopted their progeny as if they were his own grandchildren.

'Especially if you were interested in becoming a pruriently prying type of individual or a felon...' 'What kind of felon?'

The image inevitably and pruriently summons thoughts of Marilyn Monroe, to whom Mr. Miller was married, and the character she inspired in his "After the Fall."

Twice already that night little unmeaning things had peeped out at him almost pruriently, and given him a sense of drawing nearer and nearer to the head-quarters of hell.

II, as it happens, uses a splendid six-speed manual gearbox mated to a ruthlessly modern, pruriently potent BMW 4.4-liter V-8 of 325 horsepower and 330 pound-feet of torque.

In relating this story, Mr. Preston displays a tendency to dwell, almost pruriently, on the horrible effects of the virus, as well as a penchant for portentous details that turn out to be red herrings.

The resulting story not only lacks the subtle narrative skills displayed in this author's earlier books ("Marietta in Ecstasy," "Nebraska") but also trivializes Hitler's historical crimes by dwelling, pruriently, on his private foibles.

The question of the month in certain literary circles is: Will it be read high-mindedly, as a cautionary reconsideration of McCarthyism, or pruriently, as Roth's counterattack on his ex-wife, actress and memoirist Claire Bloom?

But the Gospel of Jean-Jacques has come, and the first Sacrament of it has been celebrated: all things, as we say, are got into hot and hotter prurience; and must go on pruriently fermenting, in continual change noted or unnoted.

Worse, as his investigation proceeds, he's pruriently drawn to Mena, the major's mistress - the word is actually appropriate here - and in a gruesome, onanistic dream he sees the sordid details of her corruption, which have led, finally, to the murder of her lover.

I swallowed several times, trying to convince myself that I was in no way behaving pruriently, but I finally slipped the packet into my pocket and decided to wait until I was home before I discovered just how depraved Dean Vanderson and the Kappas could be.

Gill is skeptical about this idea which he claims has appeared on internet sites devoted to Dylan's work, and writes that it "is probably more indicative of the pitfalls of interpretation than Dylan's intention with the song"; he adds that the song "condemns the urge to interpret pruriently that which we don't immediately understand."