| For so long, many religious conservatives have fought for laws to be passed in the face of a culture that was very libertine and pro-choice. |
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| To be a libertine is to be in a physical condition like that of a morphiomaniac, a drunkard, or a smoker. |
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| Perhaps more surprisingly, Lucio, the rake and libertine, also sees the value of chastity. |
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| She felt the attraction of libertine narrative in a less crabbed way than some of her better-known works might lead us to believe. |
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| Her newly found manuscript shows that she thought he was a libertine who had set out to seduce her. |
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| One entry examined Lord Byron, whose libertine life and poetic license Porter clearly admired. |
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| The principal character is a delinquent libertine, Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel. |
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| Shelley, who knew him almost as well as anyone, believed that Byron was never a revolutionary so much as a libertine. |
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| Indeed, the health consequences of the libertine life-style are, when compared with the consequences of smoking, truly disastrous. |
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| He championed victims of injustice and the public came to view him not as an impudent libertine but as a patriarch and a sage. |
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| Neither was she one of your brazen-faced jilts, with nothing but flimsy balderdash in their talk, and a libertine forwardness in their manners. |
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| Here folk memories of James have been developed and exploited in the advancement of libertine values. |
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| A libertine is a hedonist, a devotee of personal pleasure, whereas a libertarian is one who defends the libertine and his lifestyle against the heavy hand of government. |
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| Second, to be libertarian is not necessarily to be a libertine. |
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| Certainly she is a very rigorous, not to say humourless, libertine. |
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| We'll all pretend to be duly chastised by our libertine ways and pay obeisance to those good heartland values that neither they nor we actually live by. |
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| Gabriel comes across as a libertine and something of anarchist. |
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| My friend graduated from photography school in New York, and, like many artists, plunged into a libertine lifestyle with more than a little enthusiasm. |
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| We all know people who are politically conservative but sexually libertine, or politically liberal and as chaste as mother teresa. |
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| The young Marquis spent most of his youth with his merrily libertine uncle, Abbe de Sade, whose bordello business basically set the norm for the family. |
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| Although married to the prominent French heiress and journalist Anne Sinclair, Strauss-Kahn was a libertine of the old school. |
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| Mr. Réal Ménard: I'd rather you be a libertine than a liberal, but in the philosophical sense of the term. |
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| Well, he's a bit libertine in places, don't you know, and you have to be surprisingly careful. |
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| Game of Thrones had an overly sensual libertine while House of Cards had a manipulative psychopath. |
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| She sought to arouse what attention she could by running for governor as the most libertine of libertarians. |
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| Prince may have pranced around like a carefree libertine onstage, but in rehearsal he was more drill sergeant than sprite. |
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| I simply take this logic to its conclusion and point out that this woman's wanton and libertine approach to grace is the camel's nose under the tent. |
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| The libertine appeared to have finally turned his back on man. |
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| Howie is a humorlessly devout Scots Presbyterian, which makes him the brunt of much amusement among the more libertine villagers. |
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| Ilana, on the show, is the wild one, the libertine. |
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| Ten years later in Paris, when Marie Bière shot repeatedly at Robert Gentien, a libertine whose cold-heartedness she believed caused the death of their baby girl, mind-doctors were again central to the trial. |
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| Famous for: Boll's cost-saving decision to hire actual prostitutes instead of actors for a scene featuring Meat Loaf as a peruke-wearing libertine vampire. |
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| Unable to restrain the spiky haired libertine, the hotel was forced to call in the Thai army who resorted to shooting the unhinged Billy with tranquilliser darts after he refused to leave his suite. |
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| I'm asking you to be more liberal, not a libertine. |
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| I guess you could say May 68 came to me really, because it was like a confirmation of what I was already living out at the time, basically a mix of libertarian and libertine ideals. |
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| Hapipiness is an abstract idea, composed of a few sensations of pleasure'', Voltaire The delicate art of living like a libertine has passed through centuries. |
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| They found the Dutch morals much too libertine, and their children were becoming more and more Dutch as the years passed. |
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| And they were both these libertine figures during their lives. |
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| Local inhabitants seduced by the choccies include the 70-year-old Armande, with Judi Dench on imperious form as the libertine with a personal secret. |
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| Eloise is seduced by the casuistical Nempere, rescued by another libertine, and finally ends up marrying Fitzeustace, a Peacockian parody of the typical Shelleyan Poet. |
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| To facilitate their counter-attack, the targets of this critique sought to reduce the plurality of libertinisms to a simple libertine personality. |
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| So the truth of the matter is that a libertine in love, if indeed a libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh. |
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