If you don't acknowledge that being a wealthy white man with the right ancestors blesses you with the desirable sort of inequality, how can you fix the undesirable sort of inequality?
Prochnik argues that Blow's correspondence fortified Putnam in his struggles with Freud, giving him the backbone to insist that the "desirable sort of convalescence from the miseries of nervous illness" must result in "a wider sense of social opportunity and obligation".
Until the 1930's, recessions were generally regarded as inevitable, and perhaps even desirable -- a sort of purging process that cleansed the economy after the excesses of the preceding boom.
Nozick (1989) seems to think of a loss of autonomy in love as a desirable feature of the sort of union lovers can achieve.
While desirable, this sort of challenge does not always occur during the summer research experience.
or some other seemingly desirable trait has become a sort of Frankensteinian shorthand.
But there are other acceptable, indeed desirable, ways of showing a decent sort of nationalism, such as amending the constitution to allow Japan to play its full part in the world's collective security.
In "Good Hair," Nia Long, the actress, describes the conventional wisdom that straightened hair is more desirable: "There's always a sort of pressure within the black community, like 'Oh, if you have good hair, you're prettier or better than the brown-skinned girl that wears an Afro or the dreads or the natural hairstyle.' " For some, the battle lines are drawn.
With the timber industry in steep decline, recreation is pushing aside logging as the biggest undertaking in the national forests and grasslands, making nearby private tracts more desirable — and valuable, in a sort of ratchet effect — to people who enjoy outdoor activities and ample elbow room and who have the means to take title to what they want.
