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Both narrators eroticize Reagan and reveal their secret debt to him on the final page.

Hardly; even the impressive First Libido can't eroticize the entire nation.

What I like to do is fetishize and eroticize the gray flannel suit.

Here, too, in diagonally cut tops, it was the shoulder the designer chose to eroticize in a few looks.

WHY: Like fans and masks, sunglasses eroticize the eyes.

The pseudo-phallic symbolism has found an audience among those who eroticize the penetrative and receptive roles.

The presence of Asian figures and sumptuous jewelry serves to further eroticize Esther's figure.

He insisted that the world is run by powerful but sick people who control others because they have failed to eroticize their experience in a harmless way.

Her sinuous, high-tech designs eroticize the apocalyptic landscape, much as advertisements romanticize cars.

We celebrate it, romanticize it, eroticize it.

Don't know why--you can beat me black and blue but I just can't seem to eroticize nipple pinching.

We sensationalize it, glamorize it, eroticize it.

Specifically the advent of films that eroticize violence and murder of women, has been correlated to the desires of serial killers.

We celebrate it, romanticize it, eroticize it, and mass-market the weapons that bring murder within easy reach of one and all.

The man can't help it: Mr. Bertolucci's style is so rhythmic and sensual that it seems to eroticize everything it touches.

After a hilariously educational rocker about learning to eroticize breast exams, the band launched into a blistering cover of Sonic Youth's "Starpower."

The perverse power of snuff images is rooted in our twinned impulses to confront and to recoil from death, the great taboo subject that we dread, deny and eroticize.

Remember, the Virgin Mary may be a timeless symbol, but she is also a flesh-and-blood woman, and Ofili is hardly the first artist to eroticize the Virgin.

In a book on the subject written in 1956, John Walker, a former director of the National Gallery, speculated that Titian had also altered many of the figures to eroticize the painting.

Both Juliette Bisson and Carrière were in a sexual relationship together, and they both worked in collaboration with each other to fake the ectoplasm and eroticize their male audience.

The image of a crying complicit victim begging for love from her perpetrator may arouse those who eroticize the powerlessness of children and teenage girls, but it sounds like the drawing makes the tragedy clear.

"Metaphysical materialism," she writes, "was seized upon by pornographers eager to describe, eroticize and, not least, to preach the ethics of the libertine driven by desire, by the relentless motion inherent in matter.

There are also individuals who wear diapers but do not act as infants, either diaper lovers who eroticize diaper wearing, or sadomasochists who use diapers as a way of enforcing dominance and submission.

However, the Board takes into account issues of context and whether it considers scenes of sexual violence to "eroticise" or "endorse" sexual assault.

Shoujo manga series may eroticise its female leads as well for crossover appeal, as fan service aimed at a potential male audience.

Even pornography which explores marginalised and taboo sexualities, covers fat only in specialist issues which eroticise not the 'beauty' of fat but its 'ugliness'.