Rabelaisian

They were alone in the hotel but for a fat Frenchwoman of middle age, a Rabelaisian figure with a broad, obscene laugh.

The programme is bawdy -- in fact, I think I'm going to show off here and call it Rabelaisian. Does his mother ever get shocked?

The rest of the novel is an exercise in Rabelaisian humor, alternating between learned disquisitions and outlandishly disgusting sexual and/ or scatological encounters.

Her lively reportage combines interviews, mountain hikes, visits to fire labs, and even her game attempts to keep up with hotshot trainees and the Station 8 firefighters during their rigorous workouts and Rabelaisian bacony feasts.

Thats all to the good, but what really sets him apart and causes fellow attorneys that hes worked with from around the country to contact him for seasonal progress updates is his Rabelaisian approach to backyard gardening.

IN HER BIOGRAPHY OF THE MOST FAMOUS writer of the 20th century, Mary Dearborn makes little of this scrap, which might otherwise be presented as two giants of American literary history in Homeric (or Rabelaisian) combat.

The tide ebbs and flows, tyranny prevails, freedom wins, the oppressive elite returns, many are aggrieved, some are glad, most are concerned only with immediate wants-and humanity is a rancorous, Rabelaisian parade with knaves and heroes, creatures of all varieties, pursuing rainbows of all colors, and all marching off to...

In a kitchen scene sizzling with Rabelaisian revelry, monsters dexterously dodge a siege of woks, steamers and sashimi knives; Yao Chen, playing a master chef, comedienne and "Weibo queen," demonstrates the sophistication and barbarity of Chinese cuisine with a balletic act as high-spirited as it is spine-chilling.

As an existential thinker, he is fascinated by the human mind and the human predicament, yet, as a Rabelaisian human being, laughter and joy are the reasons he gets up in the morning.

A case in point is the reading of "The cow in apple time", where the cow becomes a grotesque, improper, and Rabelaisian body threatening the social order, or "In the home stretch", which Kosc traces back to the legacy of the nineteenth-century portrait-poem.

In the true Rabelaisian spirit of that culture - a spirit characterized by a kind of extravagant humor inherited from Francois Rabelais, the French Renaissance writer, monk and scholar whose bawdy satire earned him a permanent place in Western literature - the Parisian publication offended not just Muslims, but also Jews and Catholics, liberals and conservatives, along with elitist intellectuals, high-minded politicians and pious popes.

In the first chapter of the book, Bakhtin identifies Rabelaisian writing as "grotesque," stating that Rabelais and his influence on later writers present an imagery that is "filled with an almost Rabelaisian grotesque life" (Rabelais 61).