Far too many songs, even by celebrated pop pervs from Prince to Princess Superstar, are only really lusting after the standard act.
Agamemnon can almost be imagined twirling a villain's mustache as he proclaims his imperial enterprise -- explicitly stating that he could not care less about Helen but really lusted after power and territory.
No, he can't remember what he said, no, no, honestly, it was just silly, no, really, it wasn't even funny, oh, all right then, he said he didn't fancy Michael Portillo because his legs were too short, but he really lusted after Gordon Brown because he just couldn't resist that shagged-out look.
As for the Pioneer Person, I'm sorry to say that as attractive and appealing as we both find her, what Olof is really lusting after is the cheddar.
The basis for that covetousness, to my mind, is not really greed or lust but a desire for status.
Alternately mushy and farcical, the genre trumpets the reassuring notion that traditional British reserve really conceals a lust to be in show business.
In all the tweets and transcripts that have leaked to date, there's no sign that Weiner was particularly interested in the women he communicated with — not as human beings, certainly, but not really even as lust objects either.
All her life she has been desperately in love with the son of the local doctor, and she believes that she craves his mind, unable to acknowledge that what she is really feeling is lust.
"It was really a revelation," Lust recalled.
Because you know how teenage girls in search of a safely unattainable lust object really care.
