Sentence examples for dangerous desire from inspiring English sources

This is a dangerous desire that has plagued Christianity since the fourth and fifth centuries.

Cranach was Martin Luther's best man, and responsible for burning several supposed witches – so his infatuation with dangerous desire has a dark side.

The deceased Mahalia's thesis on identity was safely in the realm of speculation, but she developed a dangerous desire to get her hands on actual artefacts from the age of Pre-Cleavage.

The Labour Party is thus complaining about a situation it largely created, or at least made far worse.Indeed, in its current campaign, the government is confusing two aims a legitimate desire to broaden access to the best universities, and a dangerous desire to attack "elitism", reflected in remarks this week by John Prescott, the deputy prime minister.

And while Washington and Adams made annual addresses to Congress, the practice lapsed with Jefferson, who compared the address to a "speech from the throne," a symptom of the Federalists' dangerous desire "to draw over us... the forms of the British Government".

They've failed to heed the lesson taught by Freud in Civilization and its Discontents: "Civilization... obtains mastery over the individual's dangerous desire for aggression by weakening and disarming it and by setting up an agency within him to watch over it, like a garrison in a conquered city".

The proposed cuts are the latest in a long series of efforts by Republicans to keep the government from tempering even the most economically dangerous desires of business.

Surely the junior colleague was speaking in confidence when she revealed her dangerous desires, even if she did not make you take a vow of silence.

One particularly instructive voice in my femme awakening was Amber Hollibaugh, who discusses her sex work, feminist activism, and radical hope in the collective of essays My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home.

Mark Adnum: The gay culture we have -- and occasionally even love -- grew out of a rejection of the pre-Stonewall medical model, the darkness of the 1950s when gay men were encouraged to see a doctor before they acted on their dangerous desires.

Speaking when it was the liberal left who were driving reform, the Tory MP and educationalist Rhodes Boyson, who died last week, spoke of "a dangerous, neurotic desire for change".