lustfulness

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Noun
  • There’s lust, playfulness, and confidence oozing all throughout this track.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Ellen’s entire life has been a nightmare, haunted by Orlok and his diabolical lust.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • What hasn’t changed, according to Brown, is that strong desire to experience something authentic, and that means not just being a consumer.
    Meredith Lepore, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025
  • There’s an identifiable and relatable longing in Becca’s gaze, a visible tension between a desire to risk connection and a need to maintain safety.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The brain of a neurodivergent person is wired for passions and novelty, which trigger the motivation to start and stay engaged with that interesting task, Nordmeyer said.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
  • This year’s slate includes passion projects from a myriad of top Hollywood talent who decamped to Park City, Utah, for screenings, panels, and parties.
    David Graver, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And there are more examples of eroticism in early Balkan folk vampire lore.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
  • But that doesn’t mean that The Room Next Door is lacking in eroticism or tenderness.
    James Factora, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Gregory of Nyssa, contemplating the Christian horror of concupiscence, once theorized that had not Adam and Eve sinned, the two of them would have remained virgins and reproduced in whatever way angels did.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
  • The depictions are disturbingly romantic: seminude invaders among smoldering monuments, preening with bloodlust and concupiscence.
    Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
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“Lustfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lustfulness. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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