Sentence examples similar to control of lust from inspiring English sources
Acarya Ananda Jha, the author of the Chinnamasta Tattva, prescribes her worship by soldiers as she embodies self-control of lust, heroic self-sacrifice for the benefit of others and fearlessness of death.
Modern vampires are depicted as being in control of their blood lust and emotions as a matter of choice.
The room fills with the energy, the intensity and the lust for control of an aspiring talent determined to make his mark.
To me, I think our smartphone-enabled peeping is about modifying reality as an act of control, rather than lust or eroticism.
Sanger said that birth control would elevate women away from a position of being an object of lust and elevate sex away from purely being for satisfying lust, saying that birth control "denies that sex should be reduced to the position of sensual lust, or that woman should permit herself to be the instrument of its satisfaction".
It is also true that whoever plays this character needs the stamina and breath control of Wagner's Brünnhilde to get through Maggie's protracted opening aria of lust and lamentation without passing out.
Because it's all about us and our own fears, this sort of lust is not even a truly sexual experience, but a coveting of power, control and validation.
Four years ago, when Murdoch was battling recalcitrant members of the Bancroft family to gain control of The Journal, which he had long lusted after and which he viewed as the vehicle that would finally allow him to go head-to-head against The New York Times, I wrote several columns saying that he would be a better owner than the Bancrofts.
There are no genuine ideological differences between these factions; what motivates them is a lust for power and control of the country's oil wealth.
They were objects of lust.
