Bowers's Tragic Era popularized for an enormous audience the scholarly and racist version of Reconstruction, which saw it as an atrocity perpetrated on a blameless South by "emissaries of hate" from the North and incompetent, egotistic and
lustful Southern African Americans.
Think, for example, of the TV series The L Word, which, in a totally new and politically correct context of gender equality, has resurrected the California-style naked woman, but this time as the object of the most
lustful, same-sex passions.
If you continued at that same level of
lustful excitement long term, says Susan Kellogg-Spadt, CRNP, PhD, director of sexual medicine at the Pelvic & Sexual Health Institute in Philadelphia, you'd burn out.
The good ol' days!) Hence, the celebration in the oracle that follows, akin to the joy of a bountiful harvest and
lustful abandon at the spoils of war, examples of the safe and abundant life enjoyed by God's people as their oppressors are defeated--a point reinforced by the recollection of their deliverance from the Midianites under the leadership of Gideon.
Gone are the days when
lustful teenagers flicked through the lingerie pages of those big catalogues for their kicks.
He had dismissed this thought because 'I was no more
lustful than the average person, and there didn't seem to be anything I could do about it.' Something about the MRA group at the camp gave him hope that he could live differently, and although he hadn't made a conscious decision, Rita noticed the change in him and began her own investigation into 'this thing' that had come into his life.
In one tale, Mara, a tempter, "tries to awaken [in the nuns] the
lustful thoughts, painful memories, and past fears that would make a weaker person abandon the past of spiritual attainment." The tempter also insults their intellectual and spiritual competence, saying that one of the sisters, Soma, has only a woman's "'two-finger intelligence' (enough to use a common and simple way of measuring rice)." [2] Soma responds by defending her own and the other nuns' abilities: "What does the woman's nature do to us if the mind is well-composed / If our knowledge progresses rightly, giving insight in the Teaching?" [3]
Fellow aviators take that same dim view of a wingman who lays
lustful looks upon their flyin' machine.
Witness the brochures that announced San Francisco Ballet's 2002 season, in which a female dancer in a saucer tutu and bare legs enjoys the
lustful caresses of a male dancer in the back seat of a convertible.
Selections like "A Hot Time at the Church of Kentucky Fried Souls and the Spectacular Final Sunday Sermon of the Right Revren Daddy Love," a Zoetrope: All Story award winner, about the Revren Daddy Love and his
lustful affection toward all women, and "Falcon Malone Can Fly No Mo," about a young man with magic Air Jordan sneakers are sure to become cult favorites.
The ancient Greeks supposedly thought that, "The harder the pecs and the tighter the buns the more spiritual you were." (The apostles) Peter and Andrew would never have followed "any self-enclosed whacko." When Jesus equates
lustful glances with adultery, Cahill protests: "Earth to Jesus: Hello." Jesus himself is quoted as speaking (in Matt.
Since you'll no longer belong to the coveted class of "naive" patients, the pharmaceutical industry will lose its previously
lustful look at you.
A Little Rock, Arkansas, newspaper saw lynching as a helpful part of a system of racial control, curbing the danger that black men might get out of line and cast their "
lustful eyes on white women":
There is a creepy claustrophobia to the novel, since this is a story with only three real characters--the doomed lovers and the
lustful president.
