Sentence examples for I desire something from inspiring English sources

As we have learned from René Girard, this is precisely how desires are born: I desire something by way of imitation, because someone else already has it.

The theory has the further unhappy consequence that we cannot desire what we believe to be bad, let alone what is bad, since from the very fact that I desire something, it follows that for me, at least, it is good.

This "non-existence" can be two-fold: i) I can desire something which cannot exist either logically or physically, for example, I can desire that I had wings; ii) if I desire something to be the case, then what I desire does not exist, yet.

My heart may zip about a bit in anticipation, but usually I receive what I request and if not in the form I desire, something equally or even more heart and soul satisfying shows up.

I can love the idea of equality or I can desire something which does not exist.

I desire to see her and hear her, perhaps even touch her, and nothing else; I therefore desire something impossible.

(I might be persuaded, especially under moral pressure, that I desire to desire something when in fact I do not).

"So I take it as it comes, and if I'm finding that I'm desiring something, I'm going to go and find it for myself".

So he could be making the obvious point that we can desire something without a basis in the external world, i.e. what I desire might not exist, or that I might desire something for the wrong reasons.

The mental process category in both models relates to our internal experiences (i.e. how we understand, perceive, feel about or desire something or someone) (Halliday and Matthiessen 2014: 248).

Don't they really mean they desire something with guts?