Sentence examples for actually desiring from inspiring English sources

I had hoped she was humouring Hastings when he suggested it, rather than actually desiring to go aboard a drifting hotel.

This Problem of Good was, in the past century, raised specifically against views akin to the simple picture of pleasure, on which pleasure is valuable by virtue of its intrinsic nature, perhaps just because of the way it feels in its moment, and independently of our or other animals' actually desiring or pursuing it.

In that moment, I felt like Pecola Breedlove from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, not actually desiring new eyes, but a new reality.

A recent study conducted in Italy [ 8] investigating the average adolescent in a standard secondary school showed a high percentage of adolescents actually desiring body modification, and this percentage was far higher than the percentage of those already having undergone body modification.

Lucretia's rejection is of what she actually desires – she has always seen Tarquinius as "a tiger".

Parties involving the abuse of substances so mind-altering that you might actually desire to become one with a recently deceased farmyard animal?

He wouldn't believe in his political opinions; instead, he would see those opinions as convenient tools for gaining what he actually desires.

Soon the culture will begin asking itself why these political structures of permanent investigation have developed and who, beyond the platoons of partisan players in the two political parties, actually desires them.

North Koreans, Ms. Liem writes, "have built a nation from nothing when the Western Imperialists would have had them fall, have constructed a society in which people actually desire what is best of each other, rather than what is best for the individual self, who resist the clutches of global capitalism, who have survived such hardships and risen up alive, united and strong".

If it's a goal that anyone actually desires, that is.

Even when there is a sale which is less likely given lower inventories chances are it's not going to be something you actually desire.