These capacities include capability for desire, arousal, and orgasm, which are highly responsive to psychosocial forces.
If you're Adam Phillips, you are likely to talk about the infinite human capacity for mangling desire -- for hating what we love most.
The reliability index chart is very useful for determining the beam strength capacity for a desired level of reliability (Al-Ansari 2013a).
We demonstrate that the master curve concept can be used to determine optimum design criteria meeting specific requirements in terms of maximum gravimetric capacity for a desired rate capability.
In the girl's Oedipal scenario, the father, unlike the castrated mother, stands for the virile capacity of desire itself, which she herself lacks but might reclaim through another man's provision of the opportunity to have a child.
Empathy for someone else's happiness or suffering requires recognition that the other person is equally human – effectively, that they have a mind with the same capacity for thought, emotion, desire, intention and self-awareness as ourselves.
"While the security situation is much better now than in previous months, the enemies of security in Iraq still have the capacity and desire for ruthless attacks," he said at a news conference in Baghdad.
Although older children and young adolescents demonstrate growing capacity and desire for autonomy, longitudinal research indicates that youth perceive fewer opportunities to exercise autonomy and participate in making decisions and rules in junior high than they did in elementary schools (Midgley and Feldlaufer 1987).
Another Oxford colleague, Maurice Bowra, once characterized him as "a robot, without human experience, with no girls, no real friends, no capacity for intimacy and no desire to like or be liked".
Left to the enemy would be a Nazi-like capacity for destroying life, a desire to perform search-and-destroy missions on the universe, and the breathy machine voice of Darth Vader (as if evil were a dirty phone call from the Darkside).
