Sentence examples for act of desiring from inspiring English sources

But in the Avis ads, the piece of machinery is the object of desire (there is a hint of the human-cyborg union promised at the end of the first "Star Trek" movie), and the very act of desiring it constitutes infidelity.

Rather, from this perspective, it is the act of desiring that transgresses the order of nature, resulting in a plethora of desires pulling the mind in different directions, that is seen to be at the heart of the problem.

I am interested in the act of desiring something that does not exist.

More especially, through this virtus ad movendum, which corresponds to the substantial form of the subject, the will is able to pass from the potency of desiring to the act of desiring, since it already "virtually" contains this act within itself.

They drive down a service road to embrace: two humans licking each other's bodies, each with one eye fixed to the windscreen, the rear view mirror, watching for the bright spark of a state trooper car in the distance; each knowing that their act of desire could lead to a beating or prison, even to death.

Willing, then, is a motion, and is merely the last act of desire or aversion in any process of deliberation.

Thus, with respect to action, there is only one power with two different acts, acts of conceiving and judging on the one hand, and acts of desiring (the good) and willing on the other.

"It brings together many groups, and translates into an act of hope and desire for peace".

In addition to emotions, this class of feelings subsumes the acts of desire and will, upon which the field of ethics is based.

The act of wanting and desiring new information involves reward pathways of the brain like the meso-limbic pathways and the nucleus accumbens as well as the neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin, and opioid chemicals.

For like an unhappy junkie, I can act on desires which I desire not to desire.