Word: lustful
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...this particular rabbit had a fast line of back talk, a keen sense of irony and an indomitable lust for survival. Cartoon heroes, if you think about it, tend to be victims. Either that or insufferable, like Mickey Mouse. Only Bugs Bunny managed to triumph in his struggles against an assortment of splenetic aggressors without ever getting smug...
Nixon was beaten down by the peasants' freshly fashioned plowshares because his lust for power was too strong. Ford's doom appears to come from the very gentleness of his ways. What do we want...
Director Henryk Tomaszewski has turned a traditional ballet scenario--a young princess looking over various suitors in order to choose a husband--into a grotesque, surrealistic fantasy. All Phylissa's wooers first enter gallantly, then run scared as her lust switches on. Little Napoleon, terror-struck, stabs himself in the groin. Max-Pipifax makes it further, to bed with the empress, only to be eaten by her highness--who proceeds to throw up on his flesh. The two are hardly men, nor are the rabble of other lewd cavaliers, truly Phylissa's menagerie of beasts...
Responsible Protestant and Catholic leaders are pleading for restraint. "The blood lust which is ripping Armagh must be stopped before the whole of Ulster is engulfed by murder madness," said Thomas Passmore, Grand Master of Belfast's Orange Lodge. William Cardinal Conway, Ireland's Roman Catholic primate, described the Whitecross killings as "spitting in the face of Christ." Added a deeply pessimistic editorial in Dublin's Irish Times: "The headless horseman is driving Northern Ireland full tilt down the road to hell...
...lecherous king. It is to Neumeier's credit that his choreography asks Bruhn to do more demanding dancing than anything he has attempted since coming out of retirement last year. As for Haydee - perhaps ballet's reigning actress-dancer - her Gertrude was a startlingly erotic embodiment of lust. Seeing her wrapped sensuously about Baryshnikov, one can believe that some of the most startling love positions in the Kama Sutra are, after all, humanly possible...