And, while I'll allow that gossip has been used to discuss matters of lust (which Harvey would know very little about), it has also been used to organize large societies (which Harvey would probably run into the ground, given the chance, just as he has run the humanities department into the ground).
And the tranquillity of the settings — the movie begins at a rural cricket match — is fractured by innumerable disturbances of the peace: the electronic inventions of a young composer (John Hurt), the matter-of-fact lusts of his wife (Susannah York), the reminiscences of a madman (Alan Bates), and, above all, the ululation of the title, said to bring death to those who hear it.
Sexual coercion, and the threat of its possibility, in the street, in the workplace, and in the home, she found, is less a matter of frenzied lust than a deliberate exercise of physical power, a declaration of superiority "designed to intimidate and inspire fear".
Singing matter-of-factly about love, lust, fulfillment and distress, she's thoroughly catchy, and smart enough to make a girl-group epiphany out of a line like "Sadness is my boyfriend".
They will sleep with any man in a matter of seconds, out of lust if they are old, ugly, and rich; for self-preservation if they are young and beautiful; or for money, regardless.
He could not regard love merely as the gratification of lust, a matter of appetite rather than of feeling, but he was equally averse to "rationalizing" love.
Mr. Zalica follows all the mounting turmoil and the undercurrents of lust, greed and grudges with an agile, matter-of-fact assurance.
Meanwhile, businessman Tony launches matter-of-factly into a detailed account of his unassuageable lusts and Grant, a seemingly asexual therapist, casually describes his sadistic group experiments and acknowledges the universality of paedophiliac desire.
The album's subject matter incorporated sexual innuendos and references to drugs and death as well as themes of lust and exuberance.
They were objects of lust.
