Sentences with word «licentious»

Called the «374 Suite» in reference to the number of etchings he made, the series depicts great artists in acts of licentious abandon, with Raphael fornicating with his Fornarina (while Picasso watches from behind a curtain), a voyeuristic Degas ogling various prostitutes Rembrandt, and cavorting with his beloved Saskia.

If I say that grace allows you to go sin all you want, you now are beginning to wonder if I am a false teacher who promotes licentious living.

way out professors who ADVOCATE licentious behavior from s.e.x. to d.r.u.g.s. CNN Belief blog recently posted (and ridiculed) the campuses that had a Christian inclination.

Jean - Honore Fragonard, The Swing This tease of a painting defines an entire way of life — the exuberant and licentious culture of the French upper classes before the revolution.

I intend to marry Michael, and squander all his money and run his life, and make sure he never again consorts with wicked women or gambles with licentious men.

Some historians list it as the most licentious city of Asia Minor.

It's March in Lake Victoria and Sherriff Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) and Deputy Fallon (Ving Rhames) have their hands full patrolling the 5,000 plus college kids who have descended on the town to celebrate in licentious abandon their week - long school recess, that annual rite - of passage known as spring break.

Note he could only be seen from the waist up, his gyrations considered too licentious for American sensitivities.

Throughout his life, Sanders was notoriously licentious.

They would see it as too willy - nilly and permissive... even licentious.

There can be no grievance — or emergency — that is a fit object of redress by mob law, or licentious government.

But I just can't wrap my head around how they believe in such a fantasy tale created by a clearly licentious man.

This antinomianism was a characteristic feature of Gnostic teaching, and it issued in the most deliberate and licentious immorality.

This is the message of the historical divinities, male and female, who over the long years ceased to be anonymous representatives of Process and became individuals with unique and sometimes capricious personalities, individuals who exhibited behavior sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes licentious and gross.

A certain relation between I Peter and II Peter is suggested by the following combinations of words which occur in both: «grace and peace be multiplied to you» (1, 1:2; 2, 1:2), «licentiousness, passions» (1,4.3; cf. «licentious passions», 2, 2:18), «without blemish or spot» (1, 1:19, reversed in 2, 3:14), and «ceased from sin» (1, 4:1; contrast 2, 2:14, «insatiable for sin» — similar Greek words).

Others will be licentious bacchanals involving mismatched couples making bad decisions on piles of guests» coats.

A Sagittarian guy is a flirt, but he does not always form licentious relationships.

And sometimes a censored dating site just doesn't satisfy the needs of licentious singles.

Some good laughs, but too sexually licentious and distracting from what might have been a cleaner and more rollickingly funny story.

It's as if the filmmaker dangles a bloody ending as a treat or attraction in an attempt to whet the more licentious viewer's appetite.

As a hedge against possible failure to prove adultery, this alleged «that for a period of time from 1901 and continuing thereafter he [had] kept up and continued an undue, improper, indecorous and licentious association and intimacy with a woman, named Mabel Cochrane, many years his junior, and of questionable character and immoral habits.»

Swanson is perhaps best known for his extravagant and licentious rhinestone - encrusted animal head sculptures.

A British painter whose harrowing, anguished paintings and infamously licentious personal life have provided endless fodder for movie - makers, scholars, and artists alike, Francis Bacon has achieved the stature of a contemporary - art legend — all the more so now that his triptych portrait of his friend Lucian Freud made headlines when it sold for $ 142.4 million at Christie's, making it the priciest artwork to ever go under the hammer.

«If I really am so good,» said the fearless and licentious Italian artist Carol Rama in 1983, «then I don't get why I had to starve so long, even if I am a woman.»

As pirate ships used to disguise themselves under honorable flags, so all manner of dissolute and licentious living sails today under the noble banner of independence.

Assisted by a mysterious and crafty slave named Marduk, Semerket penetrates into the sordid underbelly of this most licentious and sophisticated of ancient metropolises, in the process uncovering a plot that will change the course of Babylonian history.

Sorry, miss, but your commentary reveals a youth wasted in pursuit of a means of justifying your licentious behavior, and probably the murder of at least one baby.

Were the Catholic Church to change its teaching and practice, they say, the dam holding back the libidinous urgencies of a licentious culture would collapse completely.

Thus St. Paul in Ortega's perspective is no less an extremist than a licentious wonder - working visionary like Simon Magus (he claimed he could fly), who may have been stimulated by St. Paul to become more extreme than he had been.

Your belief that family planning is destructive to society and leads to licentious living and deadbeat dads is naively simplistic.

This would explain why many early versions of Scripture translated this word as «wantons,» «debauchers,» «licentious,» and «sensual.»

People are so addicted to their licentious sex lives that they want the taxpayers to pay for them to maintain it (hellow, Sandra Fluke!).

Or the material prosperity and freedom we celebrate might from a more discerning perspective be merely vulgar and licentious» enticing but ultimately demeaning to the human spirit.

Those people are licentious, we think.

If some people are legalistic and others are licentious, wouldn't it be better, for the sake of unity, to just throw up our hands, shrug our shoulders, and say «Live and let live»?

The gods of agriculture, however, have uniformly been licentious.

In presenting these elemental Christian teachings in class I have often found that students are quick to ask the following question: if one took seriously Jesus» message that we do not have to earn our sense of feeling good about ourselves, would this not allow for an unrestrained, licentious life, believing that we are loved regardless of our behavior?

Based on these symptoms, he probably died of tertiary syphilis contracted during his licentious youth with Caligula in Rome.

Based on French author Guy de Maupassant's contentious nineteenth - century novel, Bel Ami follows the licentious life of Parisian journalist Georges Duroy.

Unless you can give me a social scenario, don't tell me you know what these... it drove me crazy when people said, «Black women have no desire for a stable marriage and are licentious.»

Prints and paintings reveal the scientific strides made in Charles II's reign as well as the erotic antics of his licentious court, as portrayed by Peter Lely.