Sentence examples for desire instead of from inspiring English sources

No doubt a citizenry schooled in renouncing desire instead of imagining there could be something more would be, in many respects, advantageous.

This might mean saving up for the most expensive sweater that you desire instead of blowing $100 on five items.

Desire, instead of being an obstacle to an inspired and fulfilled life, is the very thing that propels you toward it.

Actually Pfeiffer herself came up with a better answer: Cheri reverses the usual by privileging the female gaze, so "the focus is on the man as object of desire," instead of the other way around.

if you so desire, instead of making the biscuit you can simply buy some.

Try using peanut butter cookie dough or any other kind of cookie dough you desire instead of chocolate chip cookie dough.

The zombies decay delicately and pursue carnal and culinary desires instead of roaring around with their faces half-fallen off.

By the end, both Jason and Margery learn to harmonize their ids with their egos, acknowledging their desires instead of dissociating them in the form of lust or sock puppetry.

The Wright Flyer succeeded where other attempts to build a practical aeroplane had failed, because it could be flown in the direction the pilot desired, instead of being left largely to the whim of the wind.

As the status and the life of women under men's domination was eroded by radical changes of Korean War, a new image of women, i.e. that every individual woman had independent desires instead of what society desired of her, started to be formed.

An objectifier's beliefs have the wrong direction of fit: the objectifier arranges the world in order to fit his or her beliefs, which are influenced by his or her desires, instead of arranging his or her beliefs to fit the way the world actually is.