Examples of libidinal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web At other times, to step between the waist-high tires and make your way between the smooth or ribbed walls was to invade a space at a libidinal saturation impossible to describe to someone who has not known it. — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 1 Feb. 2021 The plunge into chaos and libidinal disaster in Ariana Harwicz’s debut novel, Die, My Love, threatens to undo the possibility of story altogether. — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020 But for a kid in Kentucky, Stonewall—even as recounted by White and others who were there—represented, at best, a kind of aspirational gay life, a bevy of uppity queers fighting for their decidedly unrespectable libidinal community. — Michelle Tea, Harper's magazine, 22 June 2019 Steel Panther sound like Van Halen meets Motley Cru meets Ratt meets Wayne’s World, complete with operatic shrieks, misogyny, shredding guitar solos and libidinal overdrive. — John Adamian, courant.com, 21 Apr. 2018 There are consequences to Trump’s decisions, and his poor libidinal self-control does bespeak his poor self-control in other arenas. — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2018 Suddenly everyone was broadcasting their life to the world, and measuring their worth on the basis of the libidinal pulses that came back – as only celebrities had before. — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017 Starting with an erotic love story, Reybaud depicts two gay men (Pascal Cervo and Arthur Igual) who are torn between masculine libidinal anxiety and the modern coupling trend. — Armond White, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017 For all of its technological resources and cultural dynamism, the world seems to know little of our county’s potential outside of Disneyland, the libidinal appeals of Real Housewives and the enduring appeal of the surfer culture. — Margot Roosevelt, Orange County Register, 16 Jan. 2017

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