lecherousness

While some view calling one's behavior "Dionysian" as an insult, conflating sensuality with lecherousness or debauchery, this holiday season, I mean it to say, "Don't choose famine when you have the opportunity to feast."

It was his ability to capture the id of America — in all its decadence, hypocrisy and lecherousness — that established him as an artist; that ability is unmatched nearly six decades later.

There’s still a little bit of lecherousness here, of course, but he’s cutting it with that pure, sweet tenor and by picking up the pace.

His major-label debut, “Kiss Land,” delivers a 50 Cent-style dismissal of romance in favor of carnality, tipping over regularly into comical lecherousness.

Like the conversation in the final hour of a boozy art opening, these small anecdotal essays mix gossip, profundity, bogosity and lecherousness in equal parts.