Debra Granik

For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust.

American Director

Meryl Streep

The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves.

American Actress

Nancy Gibbs

Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers.

American Journalist

Tracy Letts

Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who share a certain bloodlust.

American Playwright

Fergus Henderson

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

English Chef

Steven Pinker

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

Canadian Scientist

Jane Smiley

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

American Writer

Bloodlust has negative, dark emotional connotations, suggesting a deep, overpowering desire for violence.

Negative Emotion

Bloodlust is informal and best used in casual or dramatic narratives, not in formal contexts.

Colloquial Usage

While bloodlust can refer to actual violence, it's often used figuratively to express a zeal for competition.

Figurative Speech

 a horrific beast stalks the endless corridors of its prison, enraged with a bloodlust so intense that its deafening roar shakes the Earth. It is easy to see why the Minotaur myth has a long history of being disregarded as pure fiction. However, there's a good chance that the Minotaur

The scientific origins...

 And if we are appalled by that mob-violence bloodlust, we might also see in that too, perhaps, the origins of the teamwork

Bloodlust

A strong desire to kill or see violence.

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Negative Emotion

Colloquial Usage

Figurative Speech

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