Caroline's rigidity, suppressed longing and bitterness coalesce in her anguished musical soliloquy, "Lot's Wife".
Jo Lansley + Neeta Madahar present a photographic diptych that uses a bedroom backdrop for evocations of barely suppressed longing.
A chance encounter between Greg and Steph in a restaurant lobby is full of recrimination and suppressed longing.
What is unusual is not the presence of these themes but the book's complicated embrace of "foulness," and a barely suppressed longing for punishment, a longing embodied in the narrator's relationship with Mitko.
It is one of more than 100 Stock paintings featuring butlers, often in poses suggesting suppressed longing or brooding disappointment.
Women themselves believed that "sexual desire meant disease," Groneman writes, and they often voluntarily submitted themselves to treatments with caustics, purges, leeches, baths, douches, diets, sedatives and gynecological surgery (including clitoridectomies and hysterectomies) in order to suppress longing and preserve their chastity or marital vow of fidelity.
So, over the years, swallowing the rage and disgust she felt, suppressing her longing to stab Brady from top to bottom and stuff his bloody balls in his mouth, she wrote to them.
Her dark, depthless eyes gazed from the covers of influential fan magazines, projecting a nobly suppressed pain and longing; in the stories inside, she -- or her ghost writers -- advised the emerging independent American women of the 1920s on matters of fashion and home d?r.
They pulsed with sexual longing and barely suppressed violence.
Just brief descriptions of a loving, bullying manner, of crushed longings, and of rigorously suppressed regret.
Most likely they have had such longings since they were teenagers, but suppressed them for their whole lives in order to fit into society's definition of "normal," especially as it pertains to marriage.
