The phrase "arouses desire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing emotions, attraction, or the effect of something on feelings or wants.
Example: "The romantic movie arouses desire in its viewers, making them yearn for love and connection."
Alternatives: "stirs longing" or "ignites passion."
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.
At her best, Ms. Kawakubo is sans pareil for imagination, daring and execution — and for arousing desire.
Just as erotica can fail to arouse desire, so images of death and mayhem can fail to incite revulsion.
Whether or not a model is covered, her beauty is on public display, and her job is to arouse desire or envy that a beholder transfers to the product she is promoting.
It is one of the effects, perhaps one of the functions of literature to arouse desire, and I can discover no ground for saying that sexual pleasure should not be among the objects of desire which literature presents to us, along with heroism, virtue, peace, death, food, wisdom, God,' etc.
To know Passion was the thing, even — or perhaps especially — if it meant the loss of bourgeois respectability; and if, at the end, when youth and beauty were gone, and one was left humiliated by the inability to arouse desire, so be it.
If oil on canvas could arouse desire in a viewer then it could also be stabbed in the back.In this section Lifting the veil The politics of hate No recount at the Fed Swept away Artswatch: The humbling of Hollywood Rebel hearts Staying put Cold comfort Earth shattering Image power ReprintsAlthough we are given no survey of iconoclastic action, Mr Besançon's subtitle at least is true to the text.
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.
Emotions set the agenda for beliefs and desires: one might say that they ask the questions that judgment answers with beliefs and evaluate the prospects that may or may not arouse desire.
In Rohmer's films, elegant philosophical dialogue alternately sublimates, justifies, and arouses sexual desire.
