Sentence examples for desirable object from inspiring English sources

Phantasmata also play a key role in his account of desire and motivation (e.g. De Anima 431a — see Nussbaum, 1978): When some desirable object is not actually present to our senses, exerting its pull on us directly, our motivation to strive to obtain it is driven by our awareness of its (memory or fantasy) image.

During a prolonged power outage, a generator isn't just a desirable object; it's an essential object.

Refusing to go out without a fight, though, that old hidebound paper product known as the book is moving backward instead of forward, playing up its allure as desirable object and less as a democratic info-pack.

When he designed the Valentine portable typewriter for Olivetti in 1969, with the British designer Perry King, he was able to turn a piece of office equipment into a desirable object by understanding that there are emotions involved as well as ergonomics in the way that we use and understand our possessions.

First, unlike anything else, there is no conceivable circumstance in which we regard our own moral goodness as worth forfeiting simply in order to obtain some desirable object.

Although similar to stereolithography in that they both use a laser to cure a material into a desirable object, the SLS process relies on a powder material to interact with the laser rather than liquid.

We are forgotten – it's like we are supposed to sustain other people's desire because we are desirable objects.

These sculptures are utterly desirable objects.

Desirable objects of yesterday may be today's rubbish, but tomorrow they become … authentic.

Could it be that these desirable objects actually have no intrinsic value at all? Tell that to the team in the 1972 caper film The Hot Rock.

Patricia Urquiola's new range for Rosenthal shows how modern designers can work with industry to develop stunning, desirable objects that combine beauty and function.