Sentence examples for forbidden passions from inspiring English sources
The phrase "forbidden passions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe desires or feelings that are considered taboo or unacceptable in a particular context.
Example: "Their relationship was fueled by forbidden passions, drawing them closer despite the societal norms that kept them apart."
Alternatives: "taboo desires" or "illicit feelings".
A scattered yet engaging soap exalted by the particulars of its birth, "Dog Sweat" follows a handful of young Iranians as they pursue forbidden passions under the watchful gaze of a conservative Islamic society.
In their different ways, both episodes turned on forbidden passions among the exalted — a king and his mistress, the American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and a government minister, John Profumo, embroiled in a nexus of Soviet spies and British call girls.
The tale that Lyndall Gordon unveils in "Lives Like Loaded Guns" is so lurid, so fraught with forbidden passions, that readers may be disappointed to find that no actual gun goes off in this feverish account of the Dickinson family "feuds".
Where Mr. Del Tredici's work once heralded a bold return to tonality via melodies so luscious they verged on parody, Mr. Platt's offered a muscular, sometimes discordant edginess, in tune with contemporary parsings of Carroll's tales for the forbidden passions they contained.
Haunting period thriller The Miniaturist, adapted from Jessie Burton's acclaimed debut novel, tells the story of a house where, beneath the lavish beauty and privilege, lies forbidden passions and dangerous secrets.
This forbidden passion places the couple in danger from both the local ghostbusters, and the forest's hideous supernational beings.
Based on Terence Rattigan's play about forbidden passion and suppressed desire in the 1950s, the feature will star Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.
Just before the consummation of this forbidden passion, the narrator breaks off for a lengthy description of the lovers' lunch.
The two had a week of forbidden passion a year ago in this very boathouse, built by a 19th-century Talley uncle, Whistler, in defiance of all common sense — but now Sally is avoiding Matt with incensed determination.
Stretching from Chinatown riots in 1927 to pro-independence rallies during the Malayan emergency in the mid-1950s, the main thread is a tenacious, forbidden passion between a Eurasian boy and a Chinese girl.
It seems fitting that Michael Bogdanov's Wales Theatre Company, with its populist zeal, should choose a musical adaptation of Colleen McCullough's turbulent saga of forbidden passion as its final production.
