Sentence examples for consuming desire for from inspiring English sources

United mainly by a consuming desire for public approbation, the newly wedded Daudets were soon divided.

He even directed, in the case of "One-Eyed Jacks," a bizarrely Oedipal Western that seems almost an illustration of Kanfer's thesis: a villain named Dad betrays the hero (Brando as Rio the Kid, inevitably called the Kid), prompting a consuming desire for revenge; although Dad further punishes the Kid with a vicious whipping, the Kid ultimately succeeds and shoots Dad dead.

In his consuming desire for re-election, he has blinded himself to the struggle of the poorest New Yorkers, who work long hours and yet receive few benefits for their labors.

The essence of Alex Rodriguez is a consuming desire to achieve.

"My consuming desire right from early childhood," he said, "was to get out of Africa.

That self-deprecation cannot mask his consuming desire to compete in the brutal business of Formula One.

The film is another of Farhadi's characteristically thoughtful morality plays stemming from a series of dangerous, all-too-human misunderstandings: A woman in Tehran lets a man into her apartment, mistaking him for her husband; the accidental encounter leaves deep physically and psychological scars, awakening in her husband a wholly understandable yet all-consuming desire for revenge.

The nobility of the raw materials, the dexterity of the hand, the all-consuming desire of the creator and the consumer -- for Dior, they were one and the same, whether it was fashion or food that was engaging him.

We have a deep and consuming desire to capture the divine and somehow align it with our human selves.

"Consuming Desires: Modern Marketing Posters, 1880-1918," Stamford Museum and Nature Center, 39 Scofieldtown Road, Stamford, through June 4.

It is a car for those possessed by an all-consuming desire to "have whatever he's having," and these days, that order tends to be for a Bimmer.