Sentence examples for because I desire from inspiring English sources

'Because I desire neither to be in fashion, nor out of fashion.

(Davidson's example is my growing of a beautiful flower because I desire you to enter my garden — you develop a craving to see the flower as a result of my desire and my desire has thereby caused, without being a reason for, your craving).

If one considers whether such a second-order desire is intrinsic or instrumental, the most reasonable conclusion is typically that the desire is instrumental: I desire not to act on my desire to yell because I desire to not have rocks thrown at my window, and I see not acting on my desire to yell as a means to not having rocks thrown at my window.

"You said, 'Oprah, I found happiness for myself and I think it's because I desire nothing,'" she says in the above video clip.

I made shit of a brick because I desired to show him that I, too, could be an American.

"You want me to go with you?" "Of course," I said, because I desired the hero to feel that he was included in every aspect of the voyage.

For example, after years of doing ceramics as a young girl, I took up painting because I desired to do something creative again.

His ashes were scattered at sea, in accordance with the wish expressed in his will: "I desire this because although I love England very dearly .

And maybe New York changes not just because it has to, but because it desires to.

As a self-employed legal researcher, I found that I had to fend off offers of full-time employment and more contract work than I desired, precisely because I didn't want to be a 24/7 slave.

The life I lived including the countless names I went by never felt right because it lacked the femininity I desired deep down.