Sentence examples for crave explanation from inspiring English sources

When it comes to horror, Danny was saying, Americans crave explanation.

While we don't yet know the truth of that allegation, the coincidence between that event and this novella, which deals with a double infanticide, is too strong to ignore; when such things happen, we crave explanations, and Beside the Sea offers us, if not explanations, then at least some degree of insight.

Her mind, craving explanation, sorted through the possibilities until eventually the answer became obvious.

Whatever institutional reforms might ensue, we would still be suffering, craving an explanation and waiting to die.

Thus, suffice it to say that some philosophers, like Craver, reject a reductionist interpretation of mechanistic explanation (Craver 2007), whereas others seem to suggest that a conservative form of reductionism may be compatible with mechanistic explanation (Bechtel 2007 and, especially, Schaffner 2006).

Our minds crave purpose and explanation.

But viewers also crave familiarity – surely the only explanation for William Roache's continued employment as Ken Barlow in Corrie; EastEnders' success appears in part to rest with its never-ending flock of returnees.

At the rallies, one common explanation is that supporters crave authenticity, an antidote to the groomed and the stage-managed alternatives.

Now, with one explanation that "People are craving it," the entertainment press is turning its eyes toward the presidential contenders, and of course the contenders are batting their eyes and looking right back.

As Godfrey-Smith (2009, 293) notes, this combination of a causal and a localizational constraint goes in the direction of mechanistic explanation (Machamer, Darden, and Craver 2000).

An alternative explanation could be that smoking craving could be one prodromal symptom similar to what happens for some foods and not a real precipitating factor [23].