Sentence examples for certain desire from inspiring English sources

When you talk about him to friends, you say how polite he always was, how he aroused but also froze a certain desire to protect him.

We look to these images as satisfying a certain desire on the part of the writer — "a room of one's own" — a desire with which we can identify.

Thus, fear might be a combination of a certain thought (the thought that there is an abyss ahead), a certain desire (a desire not to fall), and certain sensations (those peculiar to anxiety).

If we're really in such a rush, it would make a lot more sense to use the approval, appropriations, and contracting system already in place, rather than inventing a whole new bureaucracy, for speed.One senses Mr Obama emphasised infrastructure make-work schemes to help satisfy a certain desire among liberals to see a greater direct government effort to boost employment.

There was a certain desire to know which was stronger, this maid's loyalty to us, or her loyalty to God: part of me was keen to wage war with this other world into which she escaped, sometimes returning with angry threats.

First, the required intention is a second-order attitude, an attitude about (among other things) another of the agent's own attitudes (a certain desire of hers).

I've got certain desires, certain memories.

Certain desires and drives have gone.

"They have certain desires and we can meet those desires.

Even if genetics predict certain desires, social forces can transform them.

Certain desired properties can be built into polyester and polyamide fibers during production.