lust
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Ian Dench, Derry's bandmate, said: "I can't think of anyone who embodied lust for life like Derry did. I mean, he was beautiful inside out."
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Her son Filip Spasovski says that despite her medical challenges she has an easygoing nature and a lust for life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Ms. Millonzi’s most prominent roles are Roderigo, whose lust for Desdemona turns him into a useful tool in Iago’s hands, and Desdemona’s devoted maid and Iago’s wife, Emilia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Releasing sterilized males involves no pesticides, and also leverages the insect’s biology: Males in lust are adept at finding females.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026
With one bound the lust to live flares up again and everything that has filled my thoughts goes down before it.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
We only know them through the prism of men: Jane lusts after Yoga Dude, Coco rages at Roger, Sophie is bullied by her boss.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
Domingo spent decades enacting the full spectrum of what is now called toxic masculinity, men blind to their own lusts and rages.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2020
In the lives of Sittenfeld’s characters, the lusts and disappointments of youth loom large well into middle age, as insistent as a gang of loud, showy teenagers taking up all the oxygen in the room.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2018
"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
“Or a collector brings in a body of work that you lusted after for many years.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
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
Hett’s history puts Hitler at the center of the story of World War II, explaining that he not only desired war but actually lusted for it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2020
“Tell me true,” Ser Barristan said, “did you ever love her, even a little? Or was it just the crown you lusted for?”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Teams are always lusting for special athletes who can affect the quarterback, and just about every team picking fifth to 10th could make the case for why Wilson is their guy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023
From Elon Musk to Richard Branson, the wealthiest man on Earth follows a long line of exorbitantly wealthy men lusting for space travel.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2021
I will never stop lusting for a good bite.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 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
The rest were no longer men in spirit, but homesick wretches, lusting for the flesh-pots of Tennessee, the ease, the indolence, the comfort of home.
From Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston
