The sad tale of Anna and Vronsky is, he said, "more a great lust story than a great love story".
One explanation may be that his offspring appear an underwhelming lot, with no great lust for power.In April his brother-in-law, Jang Song Thaek, was appointed to the crucial National Defence Commission.
The Florentine sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, for example, boasted in his autobiography of his great lust for life, his random acts of violence, his fathering of illegitimate children and of bludgeoning someone to death with a statuette.
The greatest lust is not sex, it's power.
Pratibha Ray's Oriya novel Mahamoha (1997, "Great Lust") portrays an independent and nonconformist Ahalya as a tragic heroine, who offers herself to Indra so that he can fulfil his lust and she her womanhood.
As a self-consciously theatrical Catherine the Great, lusting after a handsome young officer (the weak William Eythe), Bankhead has her finest moment on film, shifting between thundering imperiousness and wry vulnerability (conscious of her age, she admits to approaching 33).
Great films — "Lust, Caution," "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead," "Lars and the Real Girl" — were buried in clutter and pushed out of theaters by far-less-well-conceived indie efforts.
It's not amenable to pat solutions because desire is greater than the lust of our biology; it's an endeavor of the spirit, of our innermost voice longing to shine.
It generated, in a fair percentage of subjects, great waves of lust.
Balzac's great themes of lust, greed and vanity are perfectly suited to the relentless culture of the 1990s.
