Sentence examples for human craving from inspiring English sources

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The human craving for flavour has been a largely unacknowledged and unexamined force in history.

Carter's naturally wants to hang on to "liver" to satisfy the human craving for a pill that goes straight to a particular organ.

The novel's theme epitomizes the author's concern with the human craving for two seemingly irreconcilable qualities, those of personal freedom and love.

Yet he also satisfied the human craving for an allegorical dimension to life -- for finding large meanings in small quotidian events -- without resting those meanings on religious beliefs that had become implausible already in his day.

College, he tells us, "is a hedge against utilitarian values" that "slakes the human craving for contacts with works of art that somehow register one's longings and yet exceed what one has been able to articulate by and for oneself".

Two related themes, however, thread their way through all of Mr. Vargas Llosa's novels: a fascination with the human craving for freedom (be it political, social or creative) and the liberation conferred by art and imagination.

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Humans crave rituals of identity, whether religious or cultural and they should be respected, however irrational they seem to many of us.

On this argument – as long as humans crave the thrill of the evil, the extraordinary and the weird – bad news will always drive out good.

Humans crave omnipotence.

Like every medium ever, storytelling is what we humans crave.

Amanda is paralyzed from the waist down, and while this suit gave her the gift of movement, it couldn't give her the symmetry and freedom of range of motion that she, like all humans, craved.

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