Sentence examples for desires against from inspiring English sources

They're often changing their minds and pitting their real desires against what they allow themselves to say.

The donation has some fans cheering and others forcing themselves to balance their food desires against their personal beliefs.

"You have got to weigh up the parents' desires against that young person's wellbeing while they're at school".

This could be a story by Isak Dinesen or Ernest Hemingway, in which rich Europeans act out their desires against a backdrop of imperial privilege.

Such themes have often preoccupied Mr. Bellow, but Augie March, Henderson and Herzog test their desires against the wide world, wrestling against its bounds.

Still, in explaining the shift, he said that the first-quarter results showed strong cash flow, oil price forecasts are positive and "you have to look at the shareholders," balancing their desires against financial management and allocation of capital for business opportunities.

Against her desire, against her better judgment, she has been plunged back into the maelstrom of Iran.

The new orthodoxy asserted the claims of imagination and feeling against reason and of individual desire against social and moral convention.

The use of cluster munitions depends on the targeting sets and the effects desired against those targeting sets balanced with humanitarian considerations.

The lightness of the premise belies the thoughtfulness and sobriety of the ending, in which Wilfred and Grace test the boundaries of individual desire against the family and social duties of the time.

The protagonist reacts, his life falls out of balance, and he now has had aroused in him a conscious or unconscious desire for whatever it is that will restore balance — "launching him on a quest for his object of desire against the forces of antagonism".