Sentence examples for repressed love from inspiring English sources

Splendor in the Grass, American film drama, released in 1961, that examines repressed love and the sexual frustrations of a teenage couple.

The island fades from view as the plot's melodramatic clichés pile up — the unsolved question of Sheilagh's own parentage, Joe's repressed love for her, the enigma of Sheilagh's mother's past.

And for many, the holidays are a chance to finally show a year's worth of repressed love -- in the shape of fluffy slippers, cookie tins and the season's fanciest electronics.

Dreams also reflect emotional events, like anticipation, fear, or repressed love.

To the amazement of later readers, Freud said Ida was suffering from a hysteria caused by repressed love for her father, his lover and her husband.

Their niece, Catherine, falls in love with an Italian cousin who's staying with them illegally: Eddie, consumed with repressed love for the niece, becomes obsessed with preventing the liaison, creating a situation that leads to his own death.

Repressed or thwarted love is a dominant theme in this period, from the strange sadism of Mary Postgate (1915), where a lady's companion appears to orgasm while watching a German airman – whom she may be hallucinating – die at the bottom of a country garden, to its most powerful evocation in The Gardener (1925).

The one great animating idea of Eliot's poetry, Mr. Raine persuasively argues in these pages, is the theme of the "Buried Life, the idea of a life not fully lived," a life of missed opportunities, repressed passions, forsaken loves — the same theme, of course, that lies at the core of so much of Henry James's work, from "The Beast in the Jungle" to "Washington Square".

Hawthorne still loved the repressed, the avoided.

The CD is a mix of pop and hip-hop tunes, often with lyrics mourning lost loves or repressed lust.

Not only does this shift the focus on to Cameron's story – one of repressed angst, loneliness and unrequited love for his imaginary friend's girlfriend – but it also explains why he's so wildly erratic.