Word: lustfully
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...physical world was created by God and displays his glory. But the pleasures of the world are to be enjoyed in moderation and according to certain guidelines. The lust of the flesh, especially, is to be discouraged; sexual relations are intended by the Creator for reproduction alone and in the context of marriage...
...Trujillo transposed in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Feast of the Goat (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 404 pages; $25) is heartless and uncannily shrewd, a man whose political instincts and outsize lust were the twin pillars of his power. But personality goes only so far in maintaining authority. Vargas Llosa's scenes of official murder and sanctioned torture are fulsome enough to have been written by the other Mario, the late best-selling author Mario Puzo. Like the father of The Godfather, the Peru-born Vargas Llosa has a talent for the graphic. There are no horses' heads...
Thomas descends into the relationship with Veronika with practically no thought of its consequences, which Schlink writes with a playful awareness. He almost winks at the reader through the page with his treatment of Thomas as a naive prisoner of lust. Eventually though, Thomas seeks escape from both of his lives. He begins a sexual relationship with a much younger woman named Helga, furthering complicating his odd situation...
...good understanding of the characters’ sarcasm. Lerch particularly impresses in “Franklin Sheppard, Inc.,” a fast-paced number in which he breaks down on national television, effectively ending his friendship with Frank by exposing how his friend’s lust for money has led to the deterioration of their creative efforts and personal relationship...
...porno posters. Hwang Seong Un, deputy director at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, says that "the only difference is these motels have no lobby." He apparently hasn't noticed the red lights (they are everywhere), the video shelves on every floor offering titles like Sex Toy and Shining Lust, and the heavy pink curtains on the windows, drawn 24 hours a day. Don't bring the kids...