Sentence examples for desire rising from inspiring English sources

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

I hurried inside the terminal to wait for my boss and my translator, the glass door closing behind me, a desire rising within me to get back to the empty page, but this time with more faith that I might be able to find something true there without having lived it myself.

Yet, taught that women are "animated dirt", and swayed by uncles versed in political Islam, the pubescent narrator curbs her girl crushes ("desire rose in me like sap through a tree") and succumbs to hatred of the "other sect".

The comparison to "Gatsby" raises some uncomfortable questions: What if a man with such tortuously denied desires rose up not in clear proximity of the Ameri­can Dream but far from it, in a prospectless and corrupt society?

If your desires rise as fast as your income, you won't attain financial security.

As for age, sexual interest and desire rise sharply between childhood and through adolescence (Savin-Williams & Diamond, 2004).

Apparently, all a novelist has to do is give a character a powerful desire (to rise socially, to get away with murder) and I, as a reader, become helpless not to make that desire my own.

He, by contrast, is defined by his desire to rise.

Desire shares rose regardless, up another 5% to 20.4p.

Together, Joey Purp and Mensa grapple with their desire to rise above the torments of Chicago without betraying the city: "Chi-pain, Chi-pain, Chi-pain," Mensa sings.

But they all appear to have sprung from a shared desire to rise above the sectarian tensions tearing apart large areas of their city.