Sentences with phrase «haunted by the desire»

The films are Christine Vachon's «A Man In Your Room» (1984), about a priest haunted by his desire for an impish young man and Haynes» first film «Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud» (1985), which depicts the poet as a homosexual outlaw.

The space offered this commentary on his most recent solo show: «Rather than a collage that expects «new» meaning to emerge out of the juxtaposition of different visual orientations, his paintings aim for the disappearance of one image into another, one narrative into another, one system of seeing into another, and are haunted by the desire to move away from what it originally was.»

Not exact matches

We are haunted by the knowledge that we have placed our desires before our duties to children.

In stark contrast to that, a person who hasn't committed the unpardonable sin and isn't haunted by the fear of having committed it desires to be saved, desires eternal life and desires forgiveness; however sinful he maybe, he desires the love of God and desires to be made right in His sight.

For most of my life, I was haunted by a deep desire to be different than I was.

In pursuit of love and its redemptions, these are pilgrims haunted by memory, dogged by desire, made radiant by romance and its denouements.

Years later, his health and marriage crumbling, haunted by the role he played in what we now know as «enhanced interrogation,» it is Fair's desire to speak out that becomes a key to his survival.

Jude's desire to maintain a veneer of control, despite being haunted by sexual and psychological abuse, creates the book's major drama.

Lizzie is haunted by her first love (a revolutionary Irishman), burdened by a sense of duty to right past mistakes, and torn between a desire for independence and the pragmatic need to be cared for.

On the one hand there are the enormous sweeping novels of Dickens, Zola, Balzac where whole worlds — cities and nations — are painstakingly chronicled and set into play; and then, on the other there is the Victorian ghost story which is often a domestic drama where characters are haunted (literally and figuratively) by figments of their own passions and desires — like those found in the Brontes, Wilkie Collins, and Thomas Hardy.

Kaur's haunting, signature use of light betrays unexpressed desires lurking behind her subjects» ruminative gazes, while the eerily perfect settings feel inhabited by a silent spirit.