Sentence examples for driven by desires from inspiring English sources

Unmanageable consumers are people who are not mechanically and predictably driven by desires for more and more goods.

In contrast, the professional group, unable to benefit from lower performance rights and driven by desires to explore new theatrical forms focus on new writing and devised work.

He assumes that evil people are driven by desires for domination and luxury, and although they are single-minded in their pursuit of these goals, he portrays them as deeply divided, because their pleonexia their desire for more and more leaves them dissatisfied and full of self-hatred.

He speculated that the VNQDD were driven by "desires for personal power and economic gain".

Needless to say there are many ignorant arts patrons in today's world, driven by desires that are far from noble and the pursuit of young art for its own sake can do a disservice to the arts community at large.

My view of how people in groups see themselves and each other is informed by my belief that much of what we think we know is untrue and most of our behavior is driven by desires and motives of which we are only dimly aware.

His portraits are driven by desire and fascination.

Men were driven by desire for glory as well as by money; the one was not merely a fig leaf for the other.

Human beings are inherently driven by desire and therefore must rely on rituals and instruction to become responsible individuals.

However, Patel's need to innovate was driven by desire to alleviate drudgery of the manual cotton stripping process.

It can be assumed that the sages are naturally predisposed to quietude, whereas the common people are driven by desire in varying degree.