Sentence examples for base appetites from inspiring English sources

He is the golden youth whose high promise is betrayed by his base appetites, so that one door after another is closed to him.

All photographs by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again' By David Foster Wallace "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace takes place on a cruise ship and is structured like parentheses within parentheses: small observations trigger larger facts about our base appetites for pleasure.

While he agreed with Plato's notion of a tripartite soul, Razi often spoke of three souls, the rational or divine one enlisting the higher passions of the animal soul to control the base appetites of the vegetative soul.[10] Following Hellenistic tradition, he locates the vegetative soul in the liver, the animal soul in the heart and the rational soul in the brain.

The humans' artificial lifestyle on the Axiom has separated them from nature, making them "slaves of both technology and their own base appetites, and have lost what makes them human".

In this sense, he is still the lowest of the low, still the scavenger that feeds from the bottom of the bottom; for in Los Angeles culture, Bloom is no different from a paparrazi, a necessary evil that exists to feed our own base appetites.

The better pleasures gained in successful action and effort leave the baser appetites no time or place, and make active and heroic men forget them.

Frank Bruni overlooks a major reason so many expensive restaurants now have visible kitchens as a feature: catering to a baser human appetite, vindication.

And some observers believe that the Indian population, especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi's conservative base, has no appetite for more negotiations.

It adds: "There is now an acknowledgement of the importance" of protecting the base and "an appetite at all levels to see security improvements".

For sure, some of the support for Trump is doubtless down to an appetite for base prejudice, and in some cases an antediluvian aversion to the idea of a woman president.

"For three years, we've been talking about the need to build national cable, through big events, and use digital media to serve a fan base with an insatiable appetite for the game," Collins said.