Sentence examples for general lust from inspiring English sources

Richard Yates, whose novel Revolutionary Road offers a harrowing indictment of American life during Levittown's heyday, wrote of that era's "general lust for conformity", a "blind, desperate clinging to safety and security at any price, as exemplified politically in the Eisenhower administration and the McCarthy witch hunts".

Because during the Fifties there was a general lust for conformity all over this country, by no means only in the suburbs — a kind of blind, desperate clinging to safety and security at any price, as exemplified politically in the Eisenhower administration and the Joe McCarthy witch-hunts.

In fact, it seems to me that friends with benefits gets a bad rap, as if women aren't supposed to feel desire (in general) or lust (in particular) -- especially once they become mothers, or if they're "of a certain age".

Aidan Quinn stars as Arnold, the Revolutionary War general whose ego and lust pushed him into treachery.

Sylviane Lust: Director General, International Air Carriers Association IACAA).

In case you don't have a minute and a half to burn, here's the whole thing in a nutshell: the commercial pokes at Apple's (perhaps overly earnest) marketing language, the headphone jack's new location, the new Lightning dock connector (twice!), the lack of NFC, and the general un-coolness of lusting after a smartphone your parents will probably want to own at some point too.

Tonight's film, Germaine Dulac's The Seashell and the Clergyman, premiered in Paris 74 years ago and portrays the erotic hallucinations of a priest lusting after a general's wife.

His cringe-worthy texts to Max, who he clearly lusts after, betray a general neediness that is something a lot of teenage boys (myself included) trap themselves in.

Congress has its own set of problems, including greed, lust for campaign donations, and a general apathy toward the poor.

Stanley Hung, secretary general of the Motion Picture and Drama Association of Taiwan, has appealed the ruling on "Lust, Caution".

Instead, the book's disparate parts are held together by Bergner's general insistence on the very existence and force of female lust.