Sentence examples similar to desires gratified from inspiring English sources

I can't vouch for the veracity of its depiction of the media bourgeoisie and the medical fraternity of the day, but it's lucid about sex whether as desire gratified or frustrated as the fuel that society runs on and therefore cynical about much else that people take seriously.

Finally, her greatest desire was gratified: symbolically, she went home.

In the Critique of Practical Reason Kant famously posits that an irresistible desire to do something can be countered by imagining a gallows in front of you on which you will be hung the moment the desire is gratified.

Meanwhile we sit in a gaudy meeting house where desires are instantly gratified, and death has no consequence.

Saul's art inhabits a similarly surreal fantasy America where desires are instantly gratified as food, sex and art merge into one hilarious feast.

He tickles the ego of desire, without gratifying the more profound demands of id's lasting needs.

Q: Would you agree with me that the insertion of an object into the genitalia of another person with the desire to gratify sexually would fit within the definition used in the Jones case as sexual relations?

This premature weaning leaves the pigs with a lifelong craving to suck and chew, a desire they gratify in confinement by biting the tail of the animal in front of them.

5 Again, in his desire to gratify the people, he would not prevent them from beating to death any follower of Nero who fell into their hands.

A  green and fecund island, ­barely 20 miles off the east coast of Africa, Zanzibar for centuries represented gratified desire.

Wherever he casts his eye, what he sees, in material form, are the lineaments of gratified desire.