Sentence examples for desire for order from inspiring English sources

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The brothers may have glimpsed only their desire for order.

But you can see the desire for order in her home.

The movie has a touching but finally wan desire for order and domestic peace.

Democratic societies experience a continual tension between the desire for order and the desire for liberty.

Yet this impulse is counterpoised by a desire for order, exhibited in his scholarly, rather than purely critical, work.

It might also fulfil our desire for order and tidiness – to "tidy up" all those pesky sweets.

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This double vision, where the appetite for romantic violence is imagined as the flip side of the desire for absolute order, gives the book its permanence.

Rightly or wrongly, those furious New Yorkers had rebuffed the efforts of a gifted Italian designer, Massimo Vignelli, to impose his desire for visual order on their subway.

"In their desire for mathematical order and elegant models," he wrote in his firm's quarterly letter to clients earlier this year, "the economic establishment played down the role of bad behavior" — not to mention "flat-out bursts of irrationality".

If you can put aside your desire for perfect order, the variegated weirdness of grammar can be a source of fun rather than exasperation: Spain's manly bridges have nothing on languages with dozens of genders, including the one in Dyirbal, an Australian language, that includes "women, fire and dangerous things".

One reason why matter divides is because it inspires desire in the demiurge (fr. 11.13 16), presumably desire for imposing order and goodness.

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