"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Dona was wooed, but the clone of her father, mad and taken over with a furious, incestuous desire for Vicenta, attempted to violate her.
- His beheading (in some versions) symbolises castration-the punishment for the singer's own incestuous desires.
- Myrrha is destroyed by her incestuous desires for her father.
- In psychoanalytic analysis, the Jocasta complex is the incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.
- Did he have incestuous desires where Anna was concerned?
- Willie's remorse and her wish to see her father happy again develops over the years into incestuous desire, although Willie herself does not realize it.
- In nightmares and fantasies, his guilt entwines with incestuous desires and the cyclical history of mankind.
- In a soliloquy, Malefort divulges that he is suddenly plagued with, and almost overcome by, lustful and incestuous desire for his daughter.
- Some characters share incestuous desires.
- I Had an incestuous desire for his daughter and killed any young man seeking to marry her.
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