How To Use Libidinous In A Sentence
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Her risqué performance during the Onyx Hotel tour proved once and for all that she has successfully made the transition from virginal adolescence to libidinous adulthood, to the consternation of some and joy of others.
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Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
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Powell let his libidinous imagination run away with him.
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I'll grant that everyone, even libidinous crooners, have bad days.
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And despite her remarkable command of languages, razor-sharp mind and transcendent abilities as a ruler -- "every bit Caesar's equal as a coolheaded, clear-eyed pragmatist" -- it is the libidinous queen who lives on.
Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana
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Taking on the libidinous cool of their idols but slowing things down a good deal, these guys certainly don't seem to mind extended patches of instrumental repetition, just as long as they've struck upon something cool.
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His articles and alliteration (Lord Dudley was accused of ‘libidinous lecheries and lascivious lapses’) were immensely popular with the working class and Truth's circulation skyrocketed.
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A perceptive woman, gifted with a modern vision, a frank subjectivity and a libidinous persona which invited attention from her contemporaries.
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So then the question perhaps becomes, why should we care about these characters and their libidinous vacillations?
Ilana Teitelbaum: Please, Just Get Married Already: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Taking on the libidinous cool of their idols but slowing things down a good deal, these guys certainly don't seem to mind extended patches of instrumental repetition, just as long as they've struck upon something cool.
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The Explorer — the libidinous, creative adventurer who acts “on the spur of the moment.”
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
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He was continually embracing and kissing me -- and in the latter indulgence, he often disgusted me beyond measure, by the excessive libidinousness which he exhibited -- I merely mention these things to show the vile and beastly nature of this man, whom the world regarded as a pure and holy minister of the gospel.
City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston
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As he said this, a man entered into the women's apartment and opened the two doors; whence there issued a libidinous effluvium, which had a stench like mire; this arose from polygamical love, which is connubial, and at the same time adulterous; so I rose and shut the doors.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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When it first came out, swing was libidinous, hedonistic devil music.
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In a culture famous for its libidinous ways, carnival is the wildest time of all.
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If the process occurs too early or too late, if it is too strict or too libidinous, dire consequences will result.
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It is in this way that what is known as libidinous blood is nursed as well among those who are strictly virtuous, in the ordinary meaning of the term, as among those who are promiscuous in their intercourse.
Plain Facts for Old and Young
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libidinous orgies
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He looks with contempt upon his honest toil; repeats mockingly to himself, his simple talk when at meals, about the weather and the crops; sneers at his neatness, and orderliness, and cleanliness; imputes to him his own libidinousness.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
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Bond members deny their slinky nightclub attire and libidinous onstage posturing has much to do with their fame.
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The angry young man had turned into a disillusioned old man living on libidinous memories.
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High court sentences for lewd and libidinous behaviour, which includes some sex offences against children, also fell, from over five years to four.
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The former leaves to the latter to discover for itself the three carnal sins, avarice, gluttony and libidinousness; having already declared the nature of the spiritual sins, pride, envy, anger, and indifference, or lukewarmness in piety, which the Italians call accidia, from the Greek word.
Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete
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Conceivably the room had not yet fully recovered from the assault on their libidinous sensibilities.
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From below deck, a katzenjammer of libidinous voices is heard.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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There are two kinds of study particularly adapted to preserve the mind and the affections from the assaults of vice and libidinousness.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
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It is a fetor that frequently accompanies the predictable libidinous lapses of pious \ "family values\" conservatives.
Stephen Ducat: Hypocrisy in Red and Blue: How Republicans and Democrats Betray Their Principles Differently
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Asked why he promoted such libidinous revelry, he replied, “Why should the devil have all the good times?”
A Renegade History of the United States
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That should be enough to stem our sometimes inexplicably ludicrous and potentially harmful libidinous urges.
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I felt rather buoyed up by this and confirmed in my occasionally libidinous ways.
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The lecturer arose like an outraged moralist to repudiate the scandalous charge of libidinousness.
An Anarchist Woman
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The result is an invigorating, boisterous look at a group of wildly cynical and libidinous college brats.
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His enemies, however, declared that he had no higher wish than to exercise in secret the cruelty and libidinousness to which he was abandoned.
Ancient States and Empires
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This guy was a clown on one hand but a legitimate musician and a passionate feeling person and also a libidinous lunatic and also not stupid.
A Lyrical Part a Musical Father Plays Best
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The novel's Italians are listless voluptuaries, its Germans are dedicated and earnest, its nuns are whores or maniacs and its censors are libidinously thrilled by the material they censor.
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Covering women in the name of religious piety is anathema to the heart of France's libidinous boisterousness, which is rooted in the rejection of publicly religious declarations regardless of religion.
Taylor Marsh: Burqa Battle: Rooting for Sarkozy to Win
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It is a fetor that frequently accompanies the predictable libidinous lapses of pious "family values" conservatives.
Stephen Ducat: Hypocrisy in Red and Blue: How Republicans and Democrats Betray Their Principles Differently
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However, the libidinous cad may find many pleasures in the licentious glance along the pew.
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She produced a tape which she says lays bare the hypocrisy of a famous self-righteous director whom she depicts as a libidinous villain.
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Women of New York: … their air of intelligent libidinousness
2009 January 10 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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(III. 5) mentions when speaking of that nature of woman, which he thinks suggests to her every possible act of libidinousness: --
Shakspere and Montaigne
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The really evil libidinous people, that is to say the spiteful, the mean, the base and inhuman, fly from his presence, and for the obvious reason that he makes sex-pleasure so generous, so gay, so natural, so legitimate, that their dark morbid perverted natures can get no more joy out of it.
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
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Baby, the bodacious babe seemingly thrown in for nothing other than libidinous eye candy, becomes the ‘Marilyn’ of the group, even when she proves she can be deadlier than the others.
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He was a showman in the pulpit and a libidinous cad with other women, but at home he was ostracized with a mixture of fear and contempt.
Bad Blood « Tales from the Reading Room
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Johnson is best known as the libidinous and litigious Chuck Tchobanian on the hit 1980s CBC
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The seeds of Julius's courage and compelling energy, of Augustus's prudence, of the libidinousness and cruelty of Tiberius, of Caligula's folly, of Nero's artistic genius and enormous vanity, are all within me.
Crome Yellow
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Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
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Normally when the flock is culled, the weaker sheep are slaughtered, but New York has a plethora of rookies, as a result of libidinous mishaps.
Henry J. Stern: Win Some, Lose Some
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Another was fear of female sexual urges and several Victorian doctors wrote querulous treatises warning that if women gave way to ‘libidinous excesses’ they risked ill health or even mental collapse.