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free from physical desire

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The tyrant represented in those plays was either "platonically" determined by his own character, as in the cases of Cambises and Solyman, or belonged to a context more broadly characterized by ruin and chaos (Mordred) where tyranny was shown to be the result of the legitimate sovereigns ill-government.
They regard this as both a methodological and ethical advance on previous, Platonically oriented positions.
They begin sharing a bed platonically to alleviate their loneliness.
While lying platonically in bed with Connie--the air raid warden who lives upstairs but sleeps near the hollow in the mattress left by Louie's soldier husband--Louie "dwell[s]" on Stella, whom she meets only once, with "mistrust and addiction, dread and desire" (278).
back, from a Platonically oriented, theory-centered style of philosophy
platonically, rather than through familial, sexual or even romantic
The proof of the following result can be done analogously to that in case of platonically generalized uniform distributions on platonic spheres.
Speaking Platonically, Anaximander's sketch is an [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].
And where Carol is muse and patron (she buys Therese a camera), Dannie's interest feels platonically selfless.
Ever loyal to the man she confesses to platonically love, his Gal Friday complies, even grabbing an iron to smooth the shirt before he slips it on.
In Japan, the type of chocolate you are given can carry either one of two messages: Friend chocolates are the ones given platonically to friends ranging from those of the same gender to those of the opposite sex.
Sgavicchio relates this character to Useppe, as "nel finale del romanzo, il fanciullo sacro, rammemorato platonicamente il proprio paradiso, chiude il cerchio del 'mito' aperto da Arturo nell'Isola: dopo aver attraversato la storia [...] incontra la visione della poesia" (121; "at the end of the novel, the sacred child, platonically calling to mind his own paradise, closes the circle of the 'myth' opened by Arturo in Arturo's Island: after crossing history [...] he finds the vision of poetry").
Hess is the proprietor of Cuddle Up to Me, a Portland, Oregon, cuddling studio where Hess and three other comfortably but fully clothed women platonically embrace humanity for $I a minute (with a IS-minute minimum).
As it is, things get more dusty than dirty in this minor-key comedy of desire and denial, in which a pair of business-trip associates (Matthew Broderick and Alice Eve) platonically test each other's boundaries over the course of a one-day layover in Albuquerque.