Palin is too shallow to understand the weapon she's playing with; she's just thrilled to be the birthday girl and the object of so much semi-erotic devotion.
In the vespers, Monteverdi allowed excessive sensuality of religious devotion an erotic component.
The father's devotions are both erotic and pedagogic; the student's attractions are both submissive and domineering; the daughter's attitudes are both servile and rebellious.
Ravelstein is a version of Ilych without the hypocrisy, possessing an almost rabid sensuality, a devotion to luxury, unsated erotic longings and nervously trembling fingers.
In the novel that made Houellebecq famous, "Les Particules Élémentaires" (1998), he proposed that a society with an unchecked devotion to economic liberalism and erotic libertinism would come to a daylong oscillation between fucking and finance, where bankers would literally break their backs in the act of having sex for the hundredth time that day.
It's a grand moment of acting, well-conceived by Haneke although it, too, is emptied out by its isolation, which reduced the embrace to a flimsy symbol of the couple's erotic bond transferred into another sort of physical devotion.
She worked to purge bharata natyam of its shringara (erotic) element, investing it instead with an aura of bhakti (devotion).
In a series of entries addressed to God, O'Connor, a Catholic, asserts her religious devotion, wrestles with her lingering skepticism, confesses her erotic longings and literary ambitions, and punctuates her thoughts with urgent, searching supplications.
The narrator admires the gallantry of bar waitresses; his sexual devotion to Shohreh and her bodily fluids is playful and erotic.
And how did the erotic poetry from the Song of Songs end up in a work of Marian devotion?
Although his erotic writing inevitably seems Rothian, and Baker has written a whole book about his devotion to John Updike (U & I), the American writer who increasingly feels most influential on his work is Kurt Vonnegut.
