Sentence examples for abject desire from inspiring English sources
At the cusp of Mr. Schneider's improbable career, with "Saturday Night Live" and Deuce Bigalow still in the future, Elvis on a hook was a pure showcase of his comic persona, the nervous swagger combined with the abject desire to please.
In Burden of Psyche (1986), a girl comforts a naked man in a pool; Eros's abject desire for Psyche mirrors Morreau's own experience when, as a young woman of considerable beauty, she was "made to feel as if … desire for my body was my problem".
Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers.
When Jack White strolls out from behind the drum kit to duet on the evening highlight "Will There Be Enough Water," he and Mosshart transform into two near-identical desiring shadows, each dictatorial, each abject.
In this white-robed octogenarian can be glimpsed the transcendent possibility toward which all desire stretches, whether that of the abject poor, who recognize him as an ally, or that of success-obsessed élites, who are ironically burdened by the ultimate vacuousness of the luxuries that he eschews.
Despite the erotic beginning, Von Trier has little interest in desire; his focus is on Sadeian extreme pain and enjoyment, the abject emptying of self and other (including the audience, who are made complicit in the sexual violence infusing the film).
That was abject cowardice".
Of all the abject illusions!
Tyson wept, abject and philosophical.
