Word: sensualism
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...them sells herself to her sensual boss, and although her condemnation is half facetious, it is clear that her act is not to be admired. Another throws himself before a subway train, and although he has been a complacent parasite on his pauper friends, there is the uncomfortable hint that in his death he is the bravest of them all. Ken Holden, the some-what major figure, trims his political views to suit his status of the moment, and when he learns that his life-giving job is merely a concoetion of his father's well-meant trickery, he gets...
...last week, Publisher Hearst ordered Hearstpapers to throw out all advertisements and news of Mae West's new cinema Klondike Annie (see p. 44), start an editorial campaign against it. Editorial excerpts: "It is an IMMORAL and INDECENT film. . . . The story, scenes and dialog are basically libidinous and sensual. . . . Decent people will protest against . . . showing a white woman in the role, even inferred, of consort to a Chinese vice lord...
...They could have stepped out of Sinclair Lewis in their smugness, their fear and hate of the world, their lust for propriety. Two of a kind, again, though utterly different from the former, are Mario van der Weyer and Jim Darnley, the skipper of Peter Alden's yacht. Frankly sensual both, romantic and intelligent, the line between them is one solely of birth and breeding...
...Indian troops in the War, and the Maharajas of Patiala have been strongly pro-British for 100 years. The present Maharaja is thus one of the most politically potent Princes in India. A huge, sinister man with a curled black beard, full contemptuous lips and heavy-lidded sensual eyes, he is an able, hard-working administrator, owns 300 automobiles, 42 of them Rolls-Royces, keeps the biggest kennels in India and is president of the All-India Gun Dog Club, has a corps of wives and one of the world's greatest collections of emeralds. When he headed...
...Beatrice he idolized was the wife of one Simone dei Bardi. Dante rarely met or spoke with her and she died very young. But, says Papini, Dante was no saint; there were "at least a dozen women in his life . . . there is no doubt that Dante was a sensual man." As a Catholic he was guilty of three besetting sins-lust, wrath, pride. "Dante is always a little aloof, and easily shows a surly temper. . . . [His] love is more of the head than the heart, more theological than evangelical." Of his wife Gemma and the children she bore him Papini...