unsublimated

As Beatty himself put it, rather unforgivingly, George has an unsublimated libido, and is approaching middle age with no economic future.

STAR PETER BISKIND 2010

Scenario number two (HuffPo March 10) suggested the compromise candidate who could possibly bind the bleeding parts split with the hatchet of the primaries in an unsublimated death wish would be the impartial Al Gore.

Marvin Kitman: Out of Harm's Way 2008

What remains is the harsh judgement of unlegitimated and unsublimated complicity, for George is ultimately not granted access to such an imagined community in Equiano's narrative.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

An actor, he considered, was embarrassed rather than released by unsublimated chunks of raw association.

Killer Dolphin Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1966

The unsublimated sex instinct finds expression in homosexuality, that is the emotion that should go to the opposite sex is fixed on a person of the same sex.

A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

Instead, we have, acted on the crowd level, swayed by unsublimated instincts of acquisition, disguised lust, self-preservation, self-assertion, and ignoble fear: and such a fall-back is the very essence of social sin.

The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

A secondary cause of such world refusal is the first awakening of the contemplative powers; the intuition of Eternity, hitherto dormant, and felt at this stage to be -- in its overwhelming reality and appeal -- in conflict with the unreal world and unsublimated active life.

The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

When therefore qualities which were once useful on their own level are outgrown but unsublimated, and check the movement towards life's spiritualization, then -- whatever they may be -- they belong to the body of death, not to the body of life, and are "sin."

The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908

All this effort was spent to transform the legendary death of a Roman soldier and secret Christian - pierced by arrows until he resembled a porcupine - into a gaudy orgy of barely sublimated eroticism, unsublimated torment and spiritual transcendence.

SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Joshua Kosman 2012

rent grows arrears those words were meant for softer ears and fairer features – knowing looks which cure despair; the tediousity just aches like unsublimated hunger pangs

Archive 2008-12-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2008