Sentence examples for desire and affection from inspiring English sources

Many marriages are like Strindberg's plays or Sartre's hell, where what was once love and desire and affection turns to hate, repulsion, sadism.

There is another story, though, about Charles's inability to read human desire and affection - to be part of an interactive human society - that runs along as a parallel narrative.

Jepsen's greatest gift as an artist is her way of making the space between love and desperation seem infinite; there is an obvious pathos embedded in the way she expresses desire and affection that is singularly well-suited to a string section.

The terms "passions," "lusts," "desires," and "affections" all had a biblical pedigree.

And, as we have already seen, as late as 1862 Whewell was expressing his preference for the compound phrase "the desires and affections".

In 1836 the English polymath William Whewell commented that the proposal to refer to what he called "the desires and affections" of human nature as "the Emotions" had not been generally accepted.

Even as late as 1862, Whewell was expressing his preference for the compound phrase "the desires and affections," while acknowledging that the term "emotional" had been adopted by some recent writers (Whewell footnotes to Mackintosh, 1862, pp. xlv, 79; see also Dixon, 2003, pp. 186 187).

In her first novel, Mary: A Fiction (1788), the eponymous heroine is forced into a loveless marriage for economic reasons; she fulfils her desire for love and affection outside of marriage with two passionate romantic friendships, one with a woman and one with a man.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

He was sometimes voyeuristic, but more often prodded societal expectations to see how poorly they fitted with simple desires for freedom and affection in a period of modernisation.