Word: lustful
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...Mama is left awake and alone. In the film's loveliest scene, Malik sleepwalks out of his bed, down the stairs, out of the house, down the street, into the home of the little girl he fell in love with that day, and straight into her bed. Young lust has rarely been expressed so sweetly...
...other major characters--Barnard Hughes as a would-be excorcist, and Valerie Curtin as Nick's sexually harassing boss--are such primitive caricatures that they might as well have worn giant placards saying "Sloth" and "Lust" on them...
...People are down and out, I suppose. Life isn't peachy keen and wonderful. Punk is for people who do and don't think. It's for kids who find total American life boring. I suppose it's motivated by the same things that motivate everything else--greed and lust and all that. I don't know. This is life in the Cynical Eighties. Maybe it hasn't changed...
...placable loser; every syllable of Sylvester's lisp or Pepe Le Pew's fetid French intensifies the viewer's ability to believe that these creatures are not only personalities but gifted movie stars. Bugs, even when dolled up in drag (a spectacle that always drives Elmer to embarrassments of lust), is Cagney plus Groucho. Pepe is a Charles Boyer with negative sex appeal. And whether in basic black or in period parts such as Robin Hood, Doorlock Holmes and the Scarlet Pumpernickel, Daffy is Everyman--well, Everyduck--on the worst day of his life. He is also the subtlest farceur...
...block a libel suit when such petitions are maliciously defamatory. Finally, a 6 to 2 majority upheld most of Washington State's tough 1982 antipornography law, ruling that it could ban distribution of "lascivious" material. But the state went too far when it included material that merely "incites . . . lust," wrote Justice Byron White, because lust implies only "normal, healthy sexual desires." Last week's spate of decisions left the Justices with 31 more cases to resolve as they near adjournment for the summer vacation...