His utterances are often despondent, relentlessly honest, and philosophically profound, as he ponders the nature of friendship, memory, romantic attachment, filial love, sensuous enslavement, corrupting habits (drinking, sexual lust), and almost every phase of human experience.
The ghosts of nuns rise from their tombs, beckoned by Bertram, and dance, praising the pleasures of drinking, gambling and lust.
Bad Sex by Clancy Martin This dark novella drags the reader through a whirlwind of infatuation, sacrifice, lying, lusting, drinking, crying and nearly dying.
Michael's own mother eventually sets up with a Ukrainian soon-to-be-ex priest, taking his younger brother with her.But the teenage sons linger on in their dire neighbourhood, drinking beer, skipping school, lusting after local girls.
The authors are realistic about the way that barely literate, hard-drinking, terminally pert, lust-crazed young female predators actually behave in their natural habitat, and they hold their scout troop to an admirable standard of personal responsibility.
This unusual exhibition revels in showing the underside of this gilded era: the murders and orgies, the lust and the binge drinking.
They were daydreaming and planning, walking aimlessly or with great purpose, lost in thought or in each other's arms, arguing, laughing, glaring, kissing, frowning, waiting for their shift to begin or end, singing, swinging, gambling, drinking in one another with indifference, contempt or lust.
Violent autocrats of the free-market persuasion, though there have been many, have not soiled Friedman's name in the way that Stalin soiled Marx; somehow, the misdeeds of a Pinochet or a Suharto or a Yeltsin are attributed to these men as individuals — to their lust for power, their greed, their drinking.
Ms. Staats is surprisingly sympathetic and believably misguided in a second role, playing the hard-drinking career woman who lusts after Danny in the '50s.
Embroidering the trees, the birds of Mexico, looking at Mosby, and the hummingbird, so neat in its lust, vibrating tinily, and the lizard on the soil drinking heat with its belly.
