lust
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Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
The irony, which Mr. Crow misses, is that Marat, with his lists of enemies and scapegoats and his lust for punishment, was the ancestor of the modern totalitarians.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Macclesfield described McLeod as having a "lust for life" and an "unwavering work ethic", which was an inspiration to those around him.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
“Tupac was writing Mary these poems about love, lust, longing and sadness,” Pearlman says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025
The condemned pilots, with their lust for the life and love which is probably to be lost so soon, touch the hearts of young women, or possibly call up an answering bravado.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The half-crazed King, magnificently sung by the ever-disruptive Timur, lusts after Salome by speaking and singing at different speeds he selects on a metronome, as he entices her to type for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
She loathes the former and lusts after the latter, and her heightened emotions and cabaret dreams swell to a magnificent, hysterical crescendo unlike Broadway has ever seen.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025
Some of them involve a comically angry Devil who lusts after Cuphead’s soul; others revolve around the Betty Boop-like Miss Chalice or the torch-singing sea monster Cala Maria, who provides Dietrich-accented Hollywood glamour.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
The wine industry lusts after millennials, as baby boomers, its core customer base, age into retirement.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022
"My father is the soul of avarice, and my sweet sister Cersei lusts for power with every waking breath. I, however, am innocent as a little lamb. Shall I bleat for you?"
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
In suggesting the price was a smidge too high, the streamer tells us it never really lusted after Warner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
“I never wanted to her to think I lusted for the job,” Bonner said in a text message.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2025
But in reality, he lusted after the most upscale version of an RV; a new Prevost Marathon would sell for around a million dollars in 2001.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2023
The casino industry has long lusted after New York City, with its estimated 8.5 million residents and global appeal as a tourist destination.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2022
The DiAngelos had four cars, including a silver Porsche, that J.T. lusted after.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
Currently, I've got the "spice" colored pan, but I find myself lusting after the new "acid" green pan to herald in spring.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2022
I will never stop lusting for a good bite.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2020
We’re so saturated with sports — and lusting for more — that if my old mutt Mac could learn to juggle two dog biscuits, he would have his own channel.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020
There are a more select handful who have now become potentially good friends through various kinds of conversation—online and IRL—whom I’m not sure I am really capable of lusting after.
From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2019
You will imagine the old man confronted with this boy, of gentle blood but brought up as a labourer's son, hot, unruly, lusting for the freedom of the wet earth.
From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel
