| It was a debt that Kohlhaas owed to a world that was rapidly losing its beacons, a scene obscured by selfishness, lascivity and easy compromise. |
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| In stark contrast to the rigorous obedience of the Forerunner, Ava presents the adulterous lascivity of King Herod. |
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| Chastity and monogamy are the necessary social brakes on the lascivity that these heightened passions inspire. |
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| It was particularly impudent in the presence of women, and plainly showed its immoderate desires before them by an inexpressible lascivity. |
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| He felt that bad painters would move the nuns in their simplicity to laughter and to lascivity, and he pleaded for the figures to be clothed very modestly. |
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