All 3 Uses of
amorous
in
The House of the Spirits
- She was one of those people who are born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengeance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism, but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman—made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor—was consuming herself.†
Chpt 4amorous = romantic or sexual
- I suppose it was useless for me to expect her to forget my sour temper of the daytime with all sorts of amorous attentions in the evening.†
Chpt 6 *
- He found Jean de Satigny, whom he had not seen since the disastrous night when he had awakened him to tell him about Blanca's amorous adventures, sipping unsweetened melon juice in the only pastry shop in town.†
Chpt 7