Sentence examples for ancient desire from inspiring English sources

Border collies are fascinating to watch as they herd the sheep; it does take something away to know that the first thing they have to do is un-learn their ancient desire to attack, rip apart, and eat the sheep.

Our ancient desire to recognise patterns that might help our survival predisposed us to see patterns even when they were not there, explaining people's belief in astrology and in homeopathy "which is inconsistent with modern chemistry and yet exercises a placebo effect that can be strong in cases".

Though, for the ancient Greeks, Desire "sits enthroned among the mighty laws", romantic love has no supreme virtue.

She is Aviation, she is the new century, she is the ancient essence of desire and energy.

Carson's singular gift for resuscitating the ancient theme of desire is complicated by a postmodern habit of pastiche and fragmentation.

But as the paleographer Paul Saenger has explained, the ancient world did not desire "to make reading easier and swifter".

It is not commercial, not based on beer, sex, ancient grudge, or the desire to be like George Bancroft.

Richardson's admiration for ancient glass and his desire to produce comparable modern pieces inspired Northwood's ventures into new techniques for carving and etching glass.

When Donatello and Caravaggio portray beautiful boys, they are not indulging an accepted, legal desire like ancient Greek and Roman artists.

But they continued to have long conversations about her fascination with ancient Israel and his desire to use technology to improve people's lives.

"Murder in this strip of the Brooklyn waterfront is not commercial, not based on beer, sex, ancient grudge, or the desire to be like George Bancroft.