Sentence examples for desire in language from inspiring English sources

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Desire in Language, Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine, and Leon Roudiez (Trans), Roudiez (ed)., New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.

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Her impulse to play tit for tat leads her to consider sleeping with a patient, Billy Justin Kirkk), a whiny, good-looking screenwriter who, during their sessions, confesses his desire in graphic language.

Ms. Shaw said that she had "a violent desire to explode in language".

In the 16th century concern for "justification" (the act through which God grants a sinner grace or makes a sinner righteous) was related to the desire, often expressed in language drawn from the courts of law, of finding oneself on good terms with God.

The third, concerning a prostitute and a businessman, is a complex fugue of mistaken desire and cross purposes, rendered in language of numb precision: "It's not like that," she says when he suggests they leave together.

Model the behavior and language you desire in your child.

Nelson cites John Stuart Mill's preconditions for nationhood: the peoples' desire to be governed as one and a common feeling rooted in language, literature and history.

Lacan proved to be a major influence on avant-garde French feminism, and he led Freudian thought in fresh directions through his work on the part played by language and unconscious desire in the formation of a human subject that must always be seen as open, incomplete, and in process.

My desire to do everything in short order seemed odd, even impossible, to them, and my inability to explain in language they understood didn't help.

In his desire to transcend language and overcome its falsifications he used special techniques and non-linear narrative.

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