Word: lust
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Like her fellow chroniclers of the Amish, Lewis proves that it isn't necessary to lace every scene with lust to keep the reader's attention. Grace's suitor in The Secret tenderly proposes to her without ever having kissed her. "'Tis mighty gut," he says with deep affection. "Will you agree to be my bride?" That scene is not likely to be repeated outside Lancaster County anytime soon, but Bird-in-Hand is an appealing place for a jaded Englischer to escape to for a while - which is part of the romance, after...
...there are people in the world who are prepared to spend tens upon tens of millions of dollars to own a piece of alabaster they can never publicly acknowledge or show anyone but their closest friends. That's a fact. Ultimately what it comes down to is pure, unadulterated lust...
...mother, in the 2007 Evening. But the stage was Richardson's place to shine. In David Leveaux's sturdy revival of Anna Christie, she jettisoned Garbo's singsong Swedish inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she made Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still standing defiantly tall...
...know, and I used to resent this self-destructive behavior, wallowing in post-text shame. But after three years in college, I’ve learned to embrace it. In fact, I’m proud to be a textual harasser. In my opinion, a little love or lust note never hurt anyone...
...More damagingly, Basham confuses the distinction between correlation and causation: women’s stated desire to revert to the home may have stronger grounding in the cultural myth of the happy homemaker and in the pervasive prejudices against women in high-powered jobs, rather than in a genuine lust for the kitchen...