as in lust
intense sexual desire
dedicated to the poet's lover, the sonnet has eros as its theme
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Noun
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Almost immediately after the tribe agreed to the treaty, American lust for gold broke its promise.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Feb. 2025 -
For Kendrick, love takes the form of grace and forgiveness despite lust and infidelity. 45.—
Stephen Kearse,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Get unlimited access to journalism that fuels your curiosity, passion and ambition.—
Forbes,
Forbes,
8 Feb. 2025
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Theo has misgivings, but his passion for Wynona overrides his scruples.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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But their steamy scenes don’t always resemble the eroticism of cinema past.—
Jonathan Wolfe,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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But a film that’s primarily selling eroticism, packed with club beats and the occasionally homoerotic visual gag?—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Gregory of Nyssa, contemplating the Christian horror of concupiscence, once theorized that had not Adam and Eve sinned, the two of them would have remained virgins and reproduced in whatever way angels did.—
David Harsanyi,
National Review,
8 June 2023
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The depictions are disturbingly romantic: seminude invaders among smoldering monuments, preening with bloodlust and concupiscence.—
Cullen Murphy,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2020
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“Eros.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eros. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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