lust
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Superagent and WME Group executive chairman Ari Emanuel’s lust for upside is the stuff of legend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The court heard how Noah had "a lust for life and learning" and "a thirst for knowledge".
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
If you haven’t been following the controversy, Wilson felt that Nolan had flattened the saga by mostly erasing the Greek gods and Odysseus’ wit, lust and thorny contradictions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
Like not a few of those seduced by the wild, McCandless seems to have been driven by a variety of lust that supplanted sexual desire.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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
Seniesa learns from a loss and lusts for revenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
The wine industry lusts after millennials, as baby boomers, its core customer base, age into retirement.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2022
From end to end, it’s an album of love songs: love progressing through childhood crushes, adult lusts, parental nurturing and benedictions for unknown descendants.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2018
What if their lusts for war and glory and power are mine too and I just don't know it?
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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
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
“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
Maybe if people understand how thoroughly an early history of trauma can rewire a brain, they’ll stop lusting for harsh punishments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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
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
Peoples lusting for conquest, she bade revive their piety toward the gods and seek the mercy of heaven by showing themselves merciful.
From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll
