Sentence examples for lascivious character from inspiring English sources

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The English playwright Nicholas Rowe is often credited with inventing the original Lothario, who appeared as a character in his play The Fair Penitent in 1703, but in fact an equally lascivious character by the same name had already appeared in William Davenant's play The Cruel Brother almost a century earlier in 1630.

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When it appeared, it had such a lascivious quality to it".

When I suggested Will Ferrell might be a good candidate, he reviewed his character's lewd, libidinous, lascivious behavior, lacking entirely in couth.

Zisman is a lascivious if well-meaning character whom Knoxville portrayed in "Jackass" segments, and whom he reprises in the reality-based comedy movie "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa".

O'Flynn describes her, and the character's lascivious, blowsy mother, Helen, as "uncontained life forces who aren't bound by what's expected of them.

Miley Cyrus has shed the lascivious, hip-hop-loving character she played on her album "Bangerz," from 2013, transforming into a soft and mellow pop-country singer concerned more with dipping her toes in the sand than with popping bottles.

(However, Lermontov also repeated stereotypes of Caucasians as violent, lascivious tricksters. As one character says, "What a people…. They can't even say 'bread' in Russian, but they've learned how to say 'Officer, tip for vodka!' ") The land is the real hero: beguiling, alien, always faintly exuding death.

The show's breakout character was the lascivious prosecuting attorney Dan Fielding, played by John Larroquette.

(Among its characters are a lascivious scholar, his virginal bride, a duke with an estimable harem and a horse).

Although the film seems to play a bit fast and loose with that specific time frame, the assortment of provocative characters, including a lascivious film director, a jealous husband, a coked-out drug dealer, a hot dog vending ex-con, harried EMT workers and a group of nuns, intriguingly go about their business, all dutifully recorded by video surveillance monitors, cellphone cameras and Web cams.

I'm sure I'm not the first to point out how quintessentially English this accolade is: on the one hand it politely but firmly tows the, "No sex, please, we're British," line; while also indulging the more lascivious side of our national sexual character.

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