Sentence examples for desire for purity from inspiring English sources
During and in between these rages he belted out Spears songs, wailed about his desire for purity, enacted awkwardly ritualistic dances and presided over a cuddle party.
I needed to open myself to the fact that this man is so torn by a desire for purity – or so impure himself – that he chooses the opposite side.
What desire for purity, what abstract notion of radicality at once unassailable in its truth yet inaccessible in practice, was I feeding with what I then extracted, in a fragmentary and clumsy fashion, from my situationist readings?
It is this very desire for purity and authenticity that drives the whole wretched industry of New Age obscurantism and its multiple techniques of spiritual and material "detox," its quasi-cultic, multimillion-dollar grossing insistence on the Secret.
Wyndham explores discrimination, the threats posed by religious fundamentalism and the desire for racial purity.
No doubt the standard ignores analytically relevant levels of cognition, but we resist the desire for analytical purity in favor of simplicity.
No: today's Britain is shackled to a bunch of just over 300 extremists, whose desire for ideological purity outruns their ability to do anything.
Sometimes, we catch sight of the rusty-hued Sandia Mountains in the distance — the land I desired for its purity and Noah fled for its fallenness.
However part of the reason the decisive victory has so far eluded Romney lies in the unrealistic expectations of the Republican base torn between its conflicting desires for ideological purity and political victory.
Myers does think Conservatives generally have "the advantage", happiness speaking – because "they are less bound to restrictive and frustrating desires for ideological purity" – but acknowledges the downside of "constantly being branded heartless".
Myers does think Conservatives generally have "the advantage", happiness speaking – because "they are less bound to restrictive and frustrating desires for ideological purity" – but acknowledges the downside of "constantly being branded heartless".
