Sentence examples for fearful desire from inspiring English sources

The awareness of the inevitability and the burden of fame, the creation of a public version of himself that he now suddenly needs to manage, and the fearful desire to think about it as little as possible even as it seems to be an inescapable aspect of literary success are among the prime topics of discussion.

Specifically, the episode targets Disney's marketing tactic of the band members pledging abstinence through purity rings, which the script suggests is used to subliminally sell sex to young girls, while simultaneously appeasing the ethical standards of their parents and taking advantage of their fearful desire to protect their daughters, as Mickey had said.

As the phone hacking scandal has shown, some are frail, insensitive, driven by the desire for scoops, fearful of offending bosses.

The women in Corbaz's world are both prey and predator, simultaneously eroticized objects of male desire and domineering, fearful forces in themselves.

And although Phillips stressed that he did not begrudge Rodriguez or Boras their desires, Phillips was fearful of the impact on a Mets team that lost to the Yankees in the World Series.

Irene, fearful that his project hides a desire to leave their marriage, and afflicted by mysterious headaches, sinks into the oblivion offered by painkillers.

So it's really about different types of male sexuality, how they're constructed in a female's fearful mind, and how she creates desire out of these fantasy ideas about men.

Establishment figures made little or no secret of their desire for Tillis to prevail, fearful that any other challenger to Hagan could mean a replay of 2010 and 2012, when Republicans lost winnable Senate races in Nevada, Indiana and Missouri.

Syria, Iran and particularly Turkey, which fought a 15-year war against its own Kurdish insurgency, are fearful that Kurdish independence could stir similar desires in their own Kurdish populations.

This can border on contempt for those fearful of change; a contempt for people's desire for stability as the drumbeat to their lives.

That's not to say I am fearful about my work, but in considering this question, a desire not to fail carries more weight than a desire to succeed.