At her best, Ms. Kawakubo is sans pareil for imagination, daring and execution — and for arousing desire.
Socrates may be the master of foreplay, of arousing desire, and may to that extent be a master of the art of love, but when it comes to satisfying desire, he is a failure.
It turns out that the belated recollection of suffering both endured and culpably inflicted in no sense arouses desires for revenge and revanchism in the children and grandchildren of the generation of perpetrators.
Vogel inspired the desire to learn about movies; Cahiers aroused the desire to make movies.
They aroused the desire to be heard, even in those who were far from formulating what needed to be said or in what medium.
And yet, in the case of David Cameron, it is his failure to provide complete answers that has aroused the desire for further scrutiny.
Velázquez's visit, with Rubens, to see the famous paintings in the royal monastery of the Escorial near Madrid is said by Palomino to have aroused his desire to go to Italy.
Odette enters as a timid, shadowy figure who is immediately marked down by Swann "not without beauty... but... a kind of beauty that left him indifferent, that aroused no desire, even caused him a sort of... repulsion".
Sexy cars aroused greater desire, looked better in ad campaigns and were much easier to sell than safe cars.
He's the sort of dandy for whom "it is only the impossible, the unachievable that arouses desire".
Just as erotica can fail to arouse desire, so images of death and mayhem can fail to incite revulsion.
