Reuters spoke to Google, and the company responded in a statement that the enforced bowdlerization was indeed intentional: ❋ Unknown (2010)
For this bowdlerization of the folk tradition -- deeply disrespectful to the people who created it, I may add -- Pete the tireless popularizer of fake folk music bears much of the blame. ❋ Unknown (2009)
How coincidental that the Tate imbroglio should have taken place barely more than a month after the brouhaha stirred by the Yale University Press's bowdlerization of Jytte Klausen's book, "The Cartoons That Shook The World," to be published in November, after having excised the now infamous Danish cartoons as well as Gustave Dore's illustration of Mohammed for Canto 28 of Dante's "Inferno." ❋ Unknown (2009)
It's actually a slight bowdlerization of a Tony Robbins quote - not that I'm a huge Tony Robbins fan, but this one's pretty good. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Perhaps punishing Lucifee isn't such a bad bowdlerization? ❋ Angry Professor (2006)
Perhaps it was the bowdlerization that led to this usage, but even in the thirties some writers use the term "patriarchy" in a derogatory sense as the rule by male tyrants. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)
What I objected to was the bowdlerization of the biographical tradition. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Garner, always the character, once described the office of the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss" at the time reported with the bowdlerization "spit" and that his decision to take it in the first place was "the worst damn fool mistake I ever made." ❋ Unknown (2004)
Englemann's work has quite clearly and unequivocally brought out the nature of Wittgenstein's well-known protestations against such a bowdlerization of his thoughts as that of Russell in his introductory essay to the Tractatus. ❋ Janik, Allan (1969)
Already his work has weathered rejection by publishers, objection by printers, suppression by censors, confiscation by custom officials, bowdlerization by pirates, oversight by proofreaders, attack by critics, and defense by coteries -- not to mention misunderstanding by readers. ❋ Unknown (1946)
In Barrett, then, in 1883 we can see the beginnings of that painful bowdlerization of hymns that still continues. ❋ Unknown (1942)
Indeed, toward the end of this tactful bowdlerization of Salinger's life, the poker-faced biographer professes to be appalled by the "bizarre tales and misinformation … that Salinger had been habitually infatuated with teenage girls." ❋ Blake Bailey (2011)
Such bowdlerization isn't uncommon, then as now, though it's somewhat startling that it was Lang who was raised a Catholic by a Jewish mother rather than the studio executives, who made the cuts. ❋ By MANOHLA DARGIS (2011)
Vanneman comes this tale of the bowdlerization of a cartoon version of a classic novel that is apparently every bit as naughty as it is generally unreadable: ❋ Unknown (2010)
Additionally, Morris and Burne-Jones disapproved of Tennyson's bowdlerization of Le Morte d'Arthur, for which Tennyson never forgave them. ❋ Robinmkatz (2010)
But bowdlerization or no bowdlerization, the show still has a lot of charm. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Another consequence comes from the bowdlerization of Paganism in the name of maintaining a friendly public face: the watering down of the Pagan religious experience. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mel and Norma Gabler (from Texas, surprise!) had been successfully lobbying for bowdlerization and revisionism in school textbooks in Texas, California, and by economic proxy, the rest of the country for decades. ❋ Unknown (2010)
