Sentence examples for either desire from inspiring English sources

In his 1945 novel, "The Power House" (Viking Press), he argues for life over abstract ideas: "The lunatics either desire you or fear you, and I do not know which kills you more rapidly.

One of the themes of my book is about how, worldwide, women who either desire to be independent or who are compelled to strike out on their own are punished by members of their cultures who are still vastly ambivalent about changing women's roles.

So it appears that it won't do to make either desire or its satisfaction or the sensing of increases in that satisfaction sufficient for pleasure, let alone identical to it, as various philosophers have variously proposed (e.g.; Davis 1981 , 1982 Schroeder 2001, 2004), not even desire for the continuation of one's present experiences (Madell 2002, pp. 97-98).

It is human nature to either desire or be repulsed by something.

Hacker: I would hope that, by their very nature, they are "about" more than either desire or the end of desire.

In three experiments, 4-year-olds were asked to make ownership attributions about owners and non-owners who either desired or did not desire a gift.

The belief that an antibiotic will cure a specific infection may move an individual to take the antibiotic, if she also believes that she has the infection, and if she either desires to be cured or judges that she ought to treat the infection for her own good.

It probably goes without saying that most of our lives are spent either desiring certain things or really not desiring others.

The final phase of drug disease cycle involves the drug or its metabolites interfering with the normal functions of one or more cell types and producing either desired outcomes (efficacy) or undesired outcomes (side effects).

This, then, seems to involve either a desire to do something with prepubescent children, or the actual doing of those desired things – with the former potentially difficult to identify.

With a smaller company, I don't have either the desire or the resources to monitor my employees' private lives.