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It would be far-fetched to describe the US and Britain's long-term relationship with Saudi Arabia as a love affair, although elements of romance, blind infatuation and lustful mutual gratification have never been entirely absent.
Ray (2004) The late Ray Charles is conjured up in all his playful, lustful , anguished glory in this otherwise stolid, respectful biopic of the legendary musician.
Once learned, never forgotten; it is hard now not to see in the pose of the hovering kestrel a certain lustful quiver.
Aficionados of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" will be treated to a scrapbook prop created for the film and an exploration of the strange haunting at Borley Rectory that inspired both this film and Sarah Waters' "The Little Stranger".Detractors have always scoffed at the genre's curlicue excesses: lustful vampires, haunted castles, zombies, desolate, menacing landscapes and trailing black gowns.
The programme's lustful participants became almost as famous as Vladimir Putin, says Grigory Lubomirov, the show's mischievous creator.
Bleached, buxom and with impressive marketing savvy, she is arguably the most successful brand to emerge from MySpace, and has already launched a line of clothing.That made her perfect, Unilever concluded, to draw in the 18- to 24-year-old lustful lads to whom Axe is shamelessly marketed.
A country which tends towards primness by day is often alcohol-fueled and lustful by night.
THE date is as well known to students of English literature as the beginning of the first world war is to military historians: June 16th 1904 is "Bloomsday", the 24 hours into which James Joyce compressed the wanderings of a Jewish Dubliner a decent, lustful , advertising salesman named Leopold Bloom.
One warns against a "lustful atmosphere" infecting society.
It was generally assumed that while it was "natural" for men to pursue sexual opportunity, women were instinctively more virtuous (in complete contrast with the prior belief that women were the more uncontrollably lustful sex).
THE ability to excite is not a quality highly prized among central bankers, and certainly not in Threadneedle Street, where the Old Lady synonymous with the Bank of England has from her first depiction in 1797 on the point of ravishment at the hands of a lustful prime minister abhorred anything approaching a shock.
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Adjective. The word "lustful" functions primarily as an adjective, modifying nouns to describe someone or something characterized by intense sexual desire. Ludwig AI confirms this, providing numerous examples where "lustful" directly describes a person's gaze, thoughts, or behavior.
Expression frequency: Very common
