"People are tired of the erotic, the salacious and the nasty in literature, " said the writer Noah Brooks in 1891.
His first feature, the 1983 erotic vampire mood piece "The Hunger, " ended up a relative anomaly (except in sheer style) to such high-octane thrill machines as "Top Gun" (1986), "Revenge" (1990), "The Last Boy Scout" (1991), "True Romance" (1993), "Crimson Tide" (1995), "Enemy of the State" (1998), "Man on Fire" (2004), "Domino" (2005), "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (2009) and "Unstoppable" (2010).
Duigan and his cinematographer, Geoff Burton, merge the luxuriant erotic tension of a tropical idyll with the clammy apprehension of gothic fiction.
It is the first word of the title, not the fourth, that dominates the picture, which is essentially the selective erotic memoir of a San Francisco filmmaker named Caveh Zahedi.
The only two non-erotic novels in the mass market fiction chart were Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher thriller, The Affair, and John Grisham's The Litigators.
It was only in July and December that print sales were up compared with 2011, in part due to the success of James' erotic series and the Christmas trade.
McQueen, aided by his screenwriter, Abi Morgan, has stitched together a bespoke idea of the city rather than the place itself, in the same way that he frames erotic pursuit more as a neat conceptual art work than as the farrago of lunging, dithering, yearning, and near-farce in which most of society wallows.
In a hypnotic sequence, shot in a cornfield as if through a yellow haze, the lovers embark on a miniature ballet of courtship, building a palpable erotic tension through an exchange of shy glances and the most chaste of touches.
Graham's 1962 work is itself an extended rehash, with erotic emphases, of the choreographer's earlier efforts in this world.
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Young moviegoers today exhibit a startling indifference to sex and nudity on the screen, and few explicitly erotic films for general audiences are made anymore.
Dominating the north gallery as the Mozia Charioteer dominates the south is a life-size limestone marble statue of the woodland diety Priapos, as powerfully hulking and oversexed as the Charioteer is suave and teasingly erotic.
But, like the political class, excoriated as it was by last year's parliamentary-expenses scandal, the footballing elite has been chastened by a string of newspaper stings, mostly involving erotic peccadillos, which have lead to noisy warnings of the risks inherent in giving young males more money than they know what to do with (or rather, which they know exactly what to do with).
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Nonetheless, Kosashvili remains a fine director of actresses, and Glascott carries the movie with her high-toned portrait of erotic frustration.
These and other works exemplify the expressive qualities of Pre-Raphaelite art brought to their zenith in Burne-Jones's Arthurian paintings and tapestries: the dreamlike sense of dim recollections viewed behind closed eyes, of erotic yearning conveyed through powerful silence.
The director, Xavier Dolan, also co-stars as Francis, a young man who, with his best friend, Marie (Monia Chokri), hovers swoonfully around Nicolas (Niels Schneider), an impulsive, model-like party animal whose mop of golden curls hides the blithering emptiness of his gaze as he leads them on a merry chase of erotic desperation while basking in their adulation.
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