Sentence examples for forms of desire from inspiring English sources

In Buñuel's work, sex and perversity are inseparable; the more orderly and respectable forms of desire are as likely as any to be perverse and dangerous.

Two distinct forms of desire — the carnal type and the kind that involves granite countertops — have been known to intermingle, but perhaps never more so than now.

Mr. Dreyfus and Mr. Kelly admire Dante's focus on the saving power of various forms of desire, but find that his ultimate emphasis on the overwhelming bliss of contemplating God "makes all other earthly joys irrelevant".

And in the meantime, Tillman's fictions tend to be (to steal a line from one of her stories) as "outrageously ineffable, obdurate and evasive" as the forms of desire they describe.

Warning against "the forces of aggressive liberalism," the letter said, "The church will not be swayed from its position of not accepting such anti-Christian phenomena as the recognition of same-sex marriage, freedom of expression of all forms of desire, uncontained consumerism and the propaganda of permissiveness and decadence".

Warhol was fascinated by these promises of egalitarian individualism and mobility, which could be profound and deceptive, generative and paralyzing, charged with strange forms of desire.

The figure of Nosferatu in that light becomes readable as a grotesque and frightening form of desire, a version of the awakened or indulged wish that's both irresistibly powerful and pestilentially dangerous.

Women may not, in fact, have an innately narcissistic form of desire, but may be offered only the position of narcissism by the visual culture that is called upon to evoke desire.

She could hear, though, his voice thick with an excitement that she recognized as belonging to the first phase of infatuation, when even speaking about your lover, saying ordinary things about him or her, is a form of desire.

More troubling is a writing style that tips from the colourful into the bizarrely baroque with phrases that sound wonderful, but don't appear to have any meaning: "the Great Public Leviathan was up and out of its chair and scooping down the atmosphere with a gigantic spoon"; or my favourite, "But revolution, like sodomy, was just another form of desire".

He admits that "Most of the time, when you're hooked on a game, what draws you in is an elemental form of desire: the desire to see the next thing", but he never for a moment considers the visual aesthetics of games - how they imagine and construct the next thing for you to see - and cannot allow this to be part of the "content" which he suggests we ignore.