Sentence examples for his desirable from inspiring English sources

Bacall treated him as a surrogate father, and understood only later that he always wanted to be Svengali, making over a kid from nowhere into his desirable girl.

The system means that they can get their eggs fertilised by the fittest male of the group, and pass his desirable traits on to her offspring, even if he is already paired with another female.

A well-off college friend had stored his enormously desirable '58 356 four-cam Carrera coupe out in the country with me while he went to law school in Manhattan.

In House of Cards, the fact that, regardless of his less desirable, downright criminal behavior, Francis Underwood can get things done.

Yet I suspect even some fans of purebreds will find in Morie's genetic fine-tuning — his thoughts about the purity of "snow country" dogs, his listing of desirable traits, the discussion of what breeders were "trying to eliminate in their dogs" — a discomfiting suspicion that Morie stealthily transposed Japan's prewar eugenic obsession with racial purity to another species.

Disappointed as he may have been over his failure to receive desirable church posts, his attack on the church was not simply born of anger.

His competitors will surely copy things that will help them; this move probably makes his employees more desirable for competitors who want to poach them.

The worse the President looks, the more desirable his understudy seems.

He's not led by trends, which makes his clothes very desirable and very collectible".

I remembered the poems he would recite on the lake, trying to convince fish that his bait was desirable.

That this reclusiveness merely made his work more desirable to collectors was a source of grim amusement to Polke.