Sentence examples for elemental human desires from inspiring English sources

Her Fearful Symmetry, the long-awaited follow-up, is in many ways a conventional ghost story, grounded in one of the most elemental human desires: the wish to communicate with those we love after death.

Modernist primitivism was inspired partly by Freudian psychology, but it tended to extol "primitive" peoples as enjoying a more direct relationship to the natural world and to elemental human desires than "overcivilized" whites.

They're human beings, with human desires.

"There are now these very elemental human needs that have come to the forefront.

Theories tend to evaporate in a crisis, leaving behind elemental human qualities: stubbornness, frustration, fear, anger, want.

The stakes of recognition have risen exponentially, but the process remains tied to the most elemental human connections.

To make love is, in his vision, to deny the truth of the elemental human; it is to cultivate a lie.

The opening chapter's title "The Thing Itself" introduces a sense of timeless, elemental human battles, conjuring King Lear's unaccommodated man in the pitiless storm.

The emphasis on distance caters to an elemental human instinct in athletics -- power -- but detracts from the essence of games, the elegance of their seemingly less dynamic parts.

Elemental human behavior has been extruded from the writer's assembly of aimless and mournful souls and put into different bodies.

I think that ultimately making music is a very elemental human thing to do.