Sentence examples for is a lust for from inspiring English sources

First, is a lust for life.

"There is a lust for this kind of information," she added.

There are no genuine ideological differences between these factions; what motivates them is a lust for power and control of the country's oil wealth.

Few industries are as secretive as the one that murders 22m animals each day in the UK alone, and the driving force for that shiftiness is a lust for profit.

It was a lust for adventure that prompted his journey from a studio to the Caribbean skies: "I felt undervalued by the BBC.

It was a lust for oil that drove the actions of both countries, though they gave altruistic, and unfounded, reasons for their wars: the destruction of Saddam Hussein's WMD in Iraq and Mikheil Saakashvili's alleged "genocide" in South Ossetia.

It was a lust for fur, not gold, which drove 17th-century Russians across the river Ob to the Yenisey, the Lena, the Indiginka, and the distant, other-worldly Kolyma.

In these moments he is that lusty figure still – but it is a lust that cries out for more than sex, spandex and fleeting romance, it is a yearning for belief, belonging and something better.

I don't think it's a real understanding of Christianity because every religion is about a lust for life.

The "erotics of art" that she endorsed in the last line of "Against Interpretation" wasn't a lust for the work of art itself but, rather, signified the critic's own erotic aura.

It's about a lust for God.