Though asexuals (or "aces") are often seen as individuals who are devoid of sexual desire, incapable of sexual arousal and averse to interpersonal intimacy, both researchers and asexuals alike say these are largely misconceptions.
Beauvoir posits Bardot as the incarnation of "authenticity" and natural, pure "desire," with "aggressive" sexuality devoid of any hypocrisy.
Many have demanded or imagined or desired a self-contained aesthetics, devoid of any general philosophical implications, and consistent with more than one, or with any, philosophy; but the project is impossible of execution because self-contradictory.
Whereas Cameron quashed the disturbances as "pure criminality", devoid of any political meaning, there was evidently some shared motivation, cause or desire for the actions that followed.
Little is established, either, about why women may be somewhat more likely to become devoid of desire as they get deeper into middle age — and even this tendency itself is far from proven and is contradicted by some data.
Think of an idealized Zen Buddhist monk, devoid of any preferences, who dispassionately surveys the world before him, forming beliefs but no desires.
There is certainly no evidence for the Church's unspoken presumption that he was either heterosexual or devoid of carnal desires.
On the other hand, it's even less plausible that anyone, regardless of gender identification or professional status, would be utterly devoid of sexual desires or, for that matter, a private life.
The second is a blocking matrix that produces a so-called noise reference signal that is devoid of the desired source signal.
At low bit rates, the reference signal, which forms the input to the adaptive interference canceller, is no longer devoid of the desired signal.
