Sentence examples for Inflame desire from inspiring English sources

In between thumps to the face, I glimpsed the girl smiling and egging him on and instantly learned a valuable life lesson: three is never a crowd; triangulation often helps to inflame desire.

As ever with Buñuel, religion and lust are one (Bach and rock inflame desire equally, and a habit is as arousing as a bustier), and the devil is in the details: the bare feet of a girl jumping rope, a burning crown of thorns, and a pocketknife concealed in a cross join with the anarchic doings to convey his sardonic world view.

She knows that to refuse him is to inflame his desire (as he perhaps also once did).

The cat understands that the mouse will always outwit him, but this tormenting knowledge serves only to inflame his desire to catch the mouse.

Meanwhile, as is human nature, all of these efforts only serve to inflame the desire of hackers to penetrate these defenses in order to show their prowess.

("To deny me anything only inflames my desire").

Little Edie, still clinging to vestiges of youth and inflamed with desire, nearly raves for David Maysles as she performs majorette routines from her junior-college days.

Steinberg quotes from one of Boccaccio's fourteenth-century tales in the Decameron, in which a pious young girl inflames the desire of a monk named Rustico, causing in the latter a "resurrection of the flesh".

Although one immediate result of the September 11th attacks was the revival of an older, and even more controversial, form of interrogation — torture — the war on terror has also inflamed the desire for a mind-reading machine.

It inflames a desire to blame ethnic and religious minorities; it is a lust for cheap popularity and it is a phony hostility to the establishment and to "the elite" – such is the common understanding.

But the writing that inspired me then -- by a heavy-hitter team led by Barbara Kafka and including writers of the caliber of Irene Sax, Raymond Sokolov and Jacques Pepin -- is more than matched in THE NEW COOKS' CATALOGUE (Knopf, $35), and will doubtless inflame acquisitive desires in new generations of cooks.