Word: lustful
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...desirable characteristics of classical drama (strong simplicity and universal suggestiveness); but the imaginative power of the classic myth enables modern authors to invest their works with poetic dialogue--very difficult to obtain in works concerned with the harsh realism of the bourgeois environment and twentieth-century man's lust for material gain...
Fire Down Below. Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw concocts a fast-paced yarn of the Caribbean, punctuates it with lust, betrayal and revenge; with Robert Mitch um, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
...these roused her. "She knew a recipe for everything, whether it was for furniture-polish, vinegar, orange-wine, quince-water, for cooking truffles or preserving linen . . ." It is no surprise to hear that "Balzac and Proust were the authors whom she reread untiringly"; in Balzac she found a lust for life that matched her own, in Proust a brilliant reflection of her love for the memories and mysteries of childhood...
...Vincent van Gogh on the operatic stage at first brought howls of protest from critics who believed that it was his duty to choose a Turkish theme. But most criticism ended with the first performance in Ankara. The libretto altered Irving Stone's fictionalized Van Gogh biography, Lust for Life, and reduced it to five scenes: London, in front of the house of Van Gogh's first love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front of the Van Gogh's home, where he is rejected by his cousin Kay with...
...reserves gone with the death of his mother. The sweet, healthy, hulking daughter of an Irish tenant farmer, a virgin who pretends to be a wanton, has long been wildly in love with Jim. The two come together alone one night, but beyond a quickly aborted impulse of drunken lust in Jim, nothing happens. Partly from knowing he must spoil her life by sharing it, and even more from having nothing left inside to share, Jim goes away for good...