Sentence examples for desire that one from inspiring English sources

The cheers for Smart reflected a desire that one of the sport's ambassadors make a splash in his hometown.

Is the choice of a peaceful death at the end of a long life more selfish than the desire that one's own loved ones cling to a painful and undignified existence?

What unites Machiavelli's personal and political sides is his desire that one's beliefs reflect life as it is actually lived rather than as we think it should be lived.

If so, then one very plausible way to model ordinary prudential deliberation is as consisting of a desire that one's actions be justifiable to all affected future stages of oneself (see, e.g., McClennen 1990, 217).

Young-chan and Soon-ho are so deeply connected that when they voice their shared desire that one not outlive the other, their declarations don't seem morbid so much as practical.

Talansky, who is in his first Tour de France, said he found it difficult to practice descending because, even on roads closed to car traffic, a rider never experiences the pure terror, desperation and desire that one feels in the heat of a race.

One drive it fulfils: the desire to feel that one has succeeded.

I'm just finishing James Collins's "Beginner's Greek," an elegant, page-turning début novel of thwarted desire that reads like one of Jane Austen's books retold by Mark Helprin.

James Sidanius, a professor of psychology at Harvard, working from a liberal perspective, uses a measure he calls "Social Dominance Orientation" to describe "the extent to which one desires that one's in-group dominate and be superior to out-groups".

So to reject Socrates' argument, we must show that it is wrong to aim at a life that is free of regret and loss: we must show that the pursuit of security leads one to reject certain desires that one should not reject.

In so doing they have lost the deep, passionate, raw, carnal desire that draws them to one another and makes each feel deeply desirable.