Word: lustful
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...These indecent Strings are worn to stir up lust in the hearts of carnal men. No wonder the number of rapes is increasing. Too often it is the innocent lady who suffers the results of lust that has been stirred up by the indecent exposure of others...
...whom the lust of office does not kill...
...Mishima, the literary genius of Japan's postwar generation, often mentioned for the Nobel Prize, delighted in shock and contradiction. He possessed luminous and fertile abilities: his complete works in Japanese are now being collected in 36 volumes. He was also a master of what Russians call posh-lust, a vulgarity so elevated-or debased -that it amounts to a form of art. Hence the muscle-boy photographs he posed for, including one shot of himself wearing a black jockstrap astride a motorcycle. Hence his death, a pseudopolitical ritual suicide at the age of 45 in 1970, performed after...
...twice-divorced ex-barmaid out of Elmira, N.Y., afflicted by artiness, more than a touch of paranoia and a very odd walk. Roth often seems as baffled as the reader as to why Tarnopol should marry this "cornball Clytemnestra" for whom he feels no affection or even lust. Does Maureen represent the muse of disorder, the Dionysian element every artist suspects he needs? Or is she a case of purest masochism-the general contention of Dr. Spielvogel, Tarnopol's analyst, a literary referral from Portnoy...
...seamen who frequent her place takes her sexual fancy, she issues a pointblank invitation to him to follow her upstairs. In recent months she has limited her favors to a virile ship's engineer named Harry, who possesses an unholy thirst and an unquenchable lust. Harry (Edward J. Moore) is as lean as Jack Sprat, and he and Gert (Conchata Ferrell) form the oddly discrepant, frantically energetic alliance of a harbor tug docking an ocean liner...