Sentence examples for desired merely from inspiring English sources

Normally, however, one calls a desire 'instrumental' when one means it is merely instrumental: when one means that the end is desired merely as a means to some other end, and not at all for its own sake (instrumental desires are also sometimes called 'extrinsic').

We can extend Vermeulen and van den Akker's metaphor by noting that while each island on our hypothetical captain's chart is, if she so desires, merely a waystation on the way to some other port, it is also a discrete reality that temporarily forecloses others.

After returning to the rock-music setting, Harrison sings of his frustrations in the material world, which rather than satisfying human desires, merely leaves the senses "swelling like a tide".

A living being desires not merely to live, but to live most fully.

Carruthers (2008) offers an account of animal performance in many metacognition experiments in terms of belief and desires with merely object-level contents.

In effect, because the new gene-editing technique does not leave any mark in the animal's genome other than the desired mutation, it merely mimics the natural evolutionary process but using a man-made genome editor.

Scorsese merely desired what any artist desires: universal recognition and immortality.

He retorted that he merely desired effective policing with nationalist minority community participation.

It was merely desired, because otherwise VR would look 3-5 years behind the times, in terms of visual fidelity.

Starving the whole day brings a deep realisation of what the needy and the underprivileged must undergo everyday, the challenges they must face everyday--not to fulfil a desire, but to merely satiate their starving stomachs.

But for Cornell NYC Tech, that close relationship is not merely the desired outcome; it is the founding premise.