Sentence examples for eagerness to escape from inspiring English sources

By the time you reach the wilderness, you share Henry's guilt and his eagerness to escape.

In my eagerness to escape the last vestiges of the central truth I was addressing, I actually brought in a gangster to liven things up.

Byatt traces the trend -- discernible on this side of the Atlantic as well -- to several factors, including the novelist's desire "to find historical paradigms for contemporary situations" (a social-minded impulse of which even Drabble might approve); an "aesthetic need to write colored and metaphorical language"; and an eagerness to escape the self as subject matter.

Over the course of the war, a number of factors contributed to recruitment rates, including patriotism, the work of the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee in producing posters, dwindling alternative employment opportunities, and an eagerness for adventure to escape humdrum routine.

The Renaissance in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries was much more than just a reviving of interest in Greek and Roman culture; it was rather a change of outlook, an eagerness for discovery, a desire to escape from the limitations of tradition and to explore new fields of thought and action.

In his eagerness to get Wigan back into the contest, Warriors full-back Bowen was perhaps lucky to escape on-field punishment for a high and late hit on opposite number Grix, although the incident was put on report by referee Richard Silverwood.

Anything to escape La Guardia.

I wanted to escape.

Many failed to escape.

How to escape?

There was nowhere to escape.