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Instead, through misrepresentation (St Augustine of Hippo's concupiscent re-reading of the myth of Adam and Eve) and repression, Christianity became "a dangerous and untrustworthy guide to the subject".
The Lex is itself a curved reflective glass high-rise, about a dozen or so storeys high, and you would not have thought that such an edifice, or the view from it, would encourage concupiscent thoughts among those employed within it.
Iris speaks of "Kleenices" as the plural of "Kleenex" and tells him loftily, "You don't need to convince me you're concupiscent".
Even as the jihadists impose Sharia in the name of moral purity, they pursue their own concupiscent agenda, forcing a young woman into marriage with a fighter and pursuing the wife of a local herdsman (who, in one great line of dialogue, when the leader arrives at their remote hut and orders her to cover her head, responds, "Don't look at what you don't want to see").
As played by the exuberant, curly-mopped Simon, Boudu is a willful, concupiscent child; he rattles through the household like a Marx Brother whose breakage costs money, whose insults sting, and whose priapic antics prove authentically destructive.
In another passage, he cites a popular film, "Elle Court, Elle Court la Banlieue," from 1973: "When the young bus driver slips a concupiscent hand on a charming female backside, the young woman does not sue for sexual harassment," he writes.
The drama is set in motion by François's imprudent affair with Serge's concupiscent , underage sister-in-law (Bernadette Lafont, Blain's wife), who involves him in the seamy side of village life.
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Food that fell outside his regimen increased "the concupiscent excitability and sensuality of the genital organs," Graham wrote.
Or perhaps, best of all, an afternoon of the concupiscent curds in "The Emperor of Ice Cream" on Aug. 2, which is the day Wallace Stevens died.
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(The notes, interspersed among Quick's short chapters, concern a post-apocalyptic landscape called Outpost 37, where Future Leonard runs a lighthouse with his über-concupiscent wife and charming daughter).
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The adjective "concupiscent " primarily functions as a descriptive modifier, characterizing a noun by attributing to it the quality of experiencing or expressing strong sexual desire. Ludwig provides examples where it modifies nouns like "thoughts", "agenda", and "child", indicating its role in specifying the nature of those entities.
Expression frequency: Common
