Sentence examples for repressed lust from inspiring English sources

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The film's most blasphemous notion is that spiritual passion is essentially repressed lust.

It was equally inevitable that after 20 years of marriage and repressed lust, she and Richard should eventually fuck.

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

He pursued a core of themes throughout his career, gravitating around big philosophical matters — nothing less than the genesis of art and the crystallization of social codes on the basis of sublimated desire, repressed lust, and the birth of love.

Rougeau himself is a cloistered monk, and this droll, almost Barbara Pymish début novel about monastery life — rife with petty jealousies, dawn chores, and repressed lust — is often lovely.

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Three years later, he made a kids' show with Diego Luna, who would go on to be his co-star in Y Tu Mama Tambien, where drugs and lust and repressed feelings led their characters to discover each other in a very different, more adult, light.

Doll states that the moments when people experience moments like those of father-lust are repressed and unconscious, which means that they are a natural part of growing and that most grow out of it sometime.

Murder ballads and bawdy blues open avenues of desire that are usually repressed: jealousy and humiliation in the former, untrammeled lust in the latter.

American Beauty shows it all: mid-life crisis and repressed homosexuality, male redundancy and female neurosis, under-age lust and all-too-easy violence.

In "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" (1969), for instance, the repressed, married restaurateur, Barney Cashman, full of Weltschmerz and lust, contends in vain with three potential hookups at his trysting pad, his mother's apartment.

Appetite is the ruling principle, repressed sexual appetite in particular: almost all murders have lust at their core (sexual blackmail over lurid photographs in "The Big Sleep"; incest in Robert Towne's "Chinatown," which is really the culmination of Chandler on film).

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