Sentence examples for By appetite from inspiring English sources

Q. Do any animals overeat in the wild? A. A wild animal's food consumption is determined as much by the availability of food as it is by appetite.

Theatre-goers have long anticipated Simon Russell Beale's eventual Falstaff but he gives it here first: cloud-bearded and earthy, a portrait of ambition and intelligence chiselled away by appetite.

Given that the current food economy is so strongly driven by appetite, it does seem odd that so much of the desire is for such squalid and unsatisfying things.

And he says that just as in the human soul, there is reason, there is spirit, and there is appetite, so, too, in a well-structured city, there are guardians, those governed by reason; auxiliaries, roughly soldiers, those governed by honor; and a kind of worker, who is governed by appetite.

By accepting that the fixed self is an illusion imprinted by experience and reinforced by appetite, meditation parachutes in a kind of peacekeeping mission that, if it cannot demobilize the armies, lets us see their nature and temporarily disarms their still juvenile soldiers.

Napoleon's appearances and reappearances from the Russian front are as arbitrary as a Magritte drawing — and the scene's moral, to the degree that it has one, is the nihilistic one that runs true in comedy from Aristophanes to Sid Caesar: all authority is always ridiculous, and man (and woman) runs by appetite alone.

Out of the crucible of humiliation emerged Cindy, crass and cagey, driven by appetites.

On television, women don't usually play grownup human beings; they play slightly oversize children, helpless and pouty, driven by appetites they can't possibly understand.

A soul ruled by appetites is the very picture of psychological injustice.

On the other, actions motivated by appetites can be well or badly done, and likewise having an appetite at all can sometimes not be a well done, but a badly done, activity of the soul.

The drugs work by suppressing appetite, by increasing metabolism, and by other mechanisms that are not yet fully understood.