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as in wantonness
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as in concupiscence
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Noun
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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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Ellen’s entire life has been a nightmare, haunted by Orlok and his diabolical lust.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
29 Dec. 2024
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Sometimes, the darkness was a lingering memory, whether from a massacre decades ago in My Lai, Vietnam, or from a 17th-century genocide on an island in Indonesia, with the slaughter driven by a lust for nutmeg.—
Bryant Rousseau,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024
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Employing the help of scientists, philosophers and historians, Bhardwaj establishes 12 motivations for travel: curiosity, inspiration, happiness, creativity, serendipity, hardship, service, healing, wonder, empathy, eroticism and hope.—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Dec. 2024
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Tsukamoto’s bracing 67-minute film is teeming with high-voltage eroticism and dangerous body mod impulses, as two Japanese men (played by Tomorowo Taguchi and Tsukamoto himself) indulge in feverish, fetishistic fusings with metal and machinery.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
19 Sep. 2024
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Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2022
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Perrotta is up to his old tricks, painting a man’s thoughtless lechery in touching tones, inviting misreading.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
13 June 2022
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The festival had a Christian tie-in, as a burst of hedonism before the austerity of Lent.—
Jennie Rothenberg Gritz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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Blink Twice nods at a tangle of different contemporary ailments: lifestyle fetishism, wellness hedonism, our obscene fealty to stolid tech bros and their untrammeled wealth.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
6 Dec. 2024
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California For Subscribers The Mexican Mafia Tapes: Secret recordings reveal greed, betrayal — and a deal with the feds Sept. 4, 2024 Stinson had already been serving a life sentence for murdering a drug dealer in 1979.—
Matthew Ormseth,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, some ski industry observers say Vail's reluctance to increase patroller pay was part of a larger pattern of greed in a business largely controlled by two companies in North America: Vail, which runs 42 ski resorts worldwide, and the smaller Alterra, which operates 12.—
Erin Alberty,
Axios,
9 Jan. 2025
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What’s certain, however, is that NASA, the commercial space sector, and nations around the globe are fomenting their desires to renew lunar exploration.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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Venus in Pisces inspires your heart’s desires, creative endeavors and romantic pursuits with a dreamy, whimsical vibration.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
14 Jan. 2025
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Or consider the explorers who left a cold and hungry Europe in search of tropical riches, only to realize that their own rapacity could quickly exhaust the bounty of an island paradise.—
Deborah R. Coen,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2014
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Adjacent to the Gold Room was the Bravo Bazaar, a mall of real commercial rapacity.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
17 Nov. 2023
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“Venery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venery. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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