Sentence examples for capable of wishing from inspiring English sources

Reflections on the faith of women in the power of a cleansing tissue to work amatory miracles, they reasoned that an equally attractive commodity would be the possession of a power capable of wishing away grease spots.

These two ideas are not contradictory – a woman is quite capable of wishing to retain her sexual identity while also feeling that, as with most things, there's a time and a place and she shouldn't have to be "on" at all times.

Mihara never considered making the androids capable of emotion, wishing for the narrative to center on the human characters.

And on that day, when your machines will be capable of all you wish them to be capable of, on that day you hope you will also still be you.

I wish Josh the best, he is more than capable of winning gold.

Re "Almost Human, and Sometimes Smarter" (April 17), about new findings on chimpanzees: Humans routinely disregard not only the feelings and wishes of other species, but that they are capable of feelings and wishes at all.

"She seemed to me to be a person capable of expressing her wishes, and so far as she could, of having them fully carried out," Sarah's vicar attested.

They seek the Frozen Flame, a mythic artifact capable of granting any wish.

Yard believed that while the National Park Service was effective as a government agency, it was not capable of promoting the wishes of the common American.

When the patient is no longer capable of confirming his wish, the burden may be weightier.

The task of this chapter is to spell out the implications of the broad normative commitments latent in the institutional culture of Canadian society, an institutional culture around which there is broad and stable societal consensus for the debate surrounding assisted death in voluntary contexts, that is in contexts in which individuals are capable of articulating their wishes competently.