One of the lessons of "The Ugly Truth" — beyond the obvious one that a desirable, desiring woman can never, ever, be happily single and sexual in modern Hollywood — is that holding to your hard-won ideals is of no consequence, at least when there's a guy to be hooked.
As much as love, her characters long for affirmation, eager as they are to see themselves in another's eyes as desirable and desired.
There are few more desirable, or desired, possessions than a fine timepiece.
Now that a U.S. federal appeals court ruling allows cable operators to own a broadcast property in the same market, General Electric's NBC unit the crown jewel of U.S. broadcasting has become even more desirable (or desiring, since it could be an acquirer also).
The connection between the desirable and the desired was not deemed to be a fallacy which overlooked the gulf between the "ought" and the "is," but a justified recognition of the way in which the moral norms for human behavior were developed by recognizing the empirical needs, interests and desires of human beings.
"People told me that none of those excuses were valid, that I'm desirable and they desire me," she says.
Apple is in a highly competitive marketplace; its products are desired and desirable; and it has made personal computing, especially through its iPad tablet, accessible – not least to older users bamboozled by other devices.
Consider the simplest form of FA theory, which analyzes goodness in terms of what it is fitting to desire: the desirable.
Thus according to Aristotle, the knowledge sought by man can be said to be of two types: the first is a useful knowledge sought for the soundness of the body, of the senses, and of the other two abilities, the second is desired and desirable in itself for the pleasure that a man experiences in apprehending them: for instance, the myths or the stories of nations.
Undesirable desire turned desirable.
