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
“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
Unlike Dorothy, Gail’s lust for life proves too big for her small town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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
Another told how pitilessly Galahad had dealt with a fiend in a tomb, how he had cooled the well of lust, and how the castle of the leprous lady had finally been tumbled down.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The half-crazed King, magnificently sung by the ever-disruptive Timur, lusts after Salome by speaking and singing at different speeds he selects on a metronome, as he entices her to type for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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
Some of them involve a comically angry Devil who lusts after Cuphead’s soul; others revolve around the Betty Boop-like Miss Chalice or the torch-singing sea monster Cala Maria, who provides Dietrich-accented Hollywood glamour.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
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
It’s why, for years, I lusted over the Omega Speedmaster Professional — famously the first watch to go to the moon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
And the advantage won’t just go to Bellevue but to every city that has lusted for Seattle’s treasures.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2021
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
“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
It’s that for various reasons, a lot of Americans are lusting after proof that America is good.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Penn Badgley would like you to stop lusting after his murderous character in ‘You’
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023
Currently, I've got the "spice" colored pan, but I find myself lusting after the new "acid" green pan to herald in spring.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2022
I will never stop lusting for a good bite.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2020
They swarm out full of fight, like an army lusting for battle.
From Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front by A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales
