Sentence examples for confused desire from inspiring English sources

Mikal approaches Gary with a confused desire for absolution and brotherly love.

The way young Housman flinches when his beloved Jackson shakes his hand or cuffs his shoulder is eloquent with confused desire.

She tries very hard to make sense of Helen's emotions and motives, which is a hopeless task, since the character is an inexplicable collage of empathy, ambition and neediness, on hand to awaken Reacher's chivalrous impulses and to quiver with confused desire whenever he is in the room.

Flames burn bright inside his eyes on the strum-happy confession "I'm a Mess," signifying, as always, confused desire.

Buildings of stone and steel rest on the fragile foundation of human emotions and confused desires.

What starts out as a low-key Eric Rohmer-style farrago of crisscrossing connections and confused desires quickly bogs down into logy indecision.

And yet the show's miracle — and that of Amy Landecker's scorched performance, with her bitter bark of a laugh — is how much it forces you to empathize with Sarah's most confused desires, and with those of Josh Jayy Duplass and Ali Gaby Hoffmannnn), a pair of snake charmers who may as well be selling Amway when it comes to intimacy.

So passionate desires, for Spinoza, are often desires for things other than perseverance in being, although they may be confused desires for perseverance as well (see IVp63s2 and other discussions of fear).

For one thing, Mill need not confuse desire and desirability.

Last week Johnson told us that most women confused sexual desire with love.

The naked woman in question is his father's much younger second wife, and much of the novel is consumed with his own confused, preadolescent desire for her.