lust
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The court heard how Noah had "a lust for life and learning" and "a thirst for knowledge".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
“Citizen Kane” posited that all media moguls are driven by a lust for power that stems from an irreparable brokenness.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
That so-called lust for life looks a lot like a death wish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
The lust for vengeance eventually gets the better of him, but Swenson leads us step by step to depravity through sorrow, injustice and humiliation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026
As soon as I allowed myself to feel anything for Barack, the feelings came rushing—a toppling blast of lust, gratitude, fulfillment, wonder.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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
But the part itself is madness: a clash of motivations, lusts, self-doubt and ambitions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Seniesa learns from a loss and lusts for revenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
Here we see a novelist who embraced his passions — his lusts, his angers, his resentments, his envies and his jealousies — who, indeed, was largely driven by them.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021
"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
I’d also lusted after a campy toy that they and Santa Claus had denied me: a hairdresser styling kit with a mannequin doll head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
Scientists and doctors have long lusted after the regenerative powers of flatworms — not precisely with the goal of growing new heads, but of healing spinal cord damage and other serious injuries.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2020
It was no secret that since he was a boy, my dad had lusted after cars, and the pinnacle of his obsession would have been to own one.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
It’s that for various reasons, a lot of Americans are lusting after proof that America is good.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
On the field, the players will be as fervent as they ever were, lusting for success, trying on stardom but still young and rehearsing for adulthood.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
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
He is also a serial abuser of the truth, a hack whose creative pursuits mostly flop, a failed businessman lusting after a buck and a dysfunctional family man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
The poverty-stricken people lusting after gold, and unused to quiet labour, were powerfully excited by these treasure-troves, and the hopes of still greater.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag
