Sentence examples for desire something else from inspiring English sources
To desire something is to be to some extent motivated to do it but of course we often fail to do what we desire because we desire something else more, because it is impractical or out of some form of weakness.
Once his impulses desired something else he would act on them irrespective of who was getting hurt.
Esther, restless and desiring something else and something more, resents Dolly's freedom and is openly contemptuous of her stolid but devoted husband.
I desire to see her and hear her, perhaps even touch her, and nothing else; I therefore desire something impossible.
As we have learned from René Girard, this is precisely how desires are born: I desire something by way of imitation, because someone else already has it.
Envy is a state of desiring something that someone else possesses.
Goldie resists both reductive theories which regard emotions as mere compounds of belief and desire, and "add-on theories" that view them as beliefs and desires plus something else — such as feelings, for example.
She need not actually do any of these things, for she might desire to do something else even more, or might be asleep, or drugged, or otherwise prevented from doing the things she is disposed to do, but she must be (at least to some extent) disposed to do them all else being equal.
When I promised I will always give you what I want you to want, you heard, or desired to hear, something else.
