Sentence examples similar to A covert desire from inspiring English sources
Yet just beneath the clear and measured prose, there is always a tremor of something more bestial and crude: two Catholic Brothers are suddenly seen pleasuring themselves in a back room; a capable young widow starts to trace obscene words on her skirt while being lectured to by a bank manager; a recently bereaved young man suddenly gives in to his covert desire for another man.
The forces that have repeatedly transformed her image, the forces of anger and anxiety and covert desire, are still at their lethal work in the world.
Attempted transformations of identity, the thwarting of covert desires, the sometimes troubling disconnect between private character and public persona -- all are handled with a fluid touch and a tremendous affection for the characters portrayed.
What happens when the covert desires of the male gaze are laid bare and served raw? .
Sexuality has become a matter of identity ("I am lesbian") in the region, rather than mere practice ("I sleep with women"); an overt insistence on equality, rather than a covert satisfying of desire, accommodated by social norms and traditions.
A covert but massive $7bn industry has gone legit.
A covert call girl shows that cool trumps everything.
A covert effort to awaken a sleeping Trojan.
Western states said Fordow demonstrated Iran's desire to cheat and develop a covert weapons programme.
The tension between the desire for perfection and the need to live in a world in which perfection is impossible is a covert theme in the book, and Rees's frequent allusions to the analogous relationship between an imperfect pencil tip and an imperfect life seem both goofily ironic and utterly sincere.
