Sentence examples for immediate desires from inspiring English sources

Cut off from the longstanding values of the human family, these characters turn to immediate desires.

Higher order volitions involve long-term desires, and lower order volitions immediate desires.

What would stop such a person from using those powers to gratify his or her immediate desires?

Every day, millions of people tell Amazon their most immediate desires as they talk to its smart assistant, Alexa.

McEwan's "Solar" subverts this relationship, as the protagonist doesn't care about much of anything beyond his own immediate desires.

What underlies these moral traits is the ability to put something else ahead of your own immediate desires and interests — to exercise self-control.

Art can fulfill an immediate desire for relaxation.

There's no immediate desire for a change of scenery.

Food is the immediate desire and thinness the more remote but possibly achievable goal.

They place the candidates' own immediate desire to succeed above the nation's greater good.

I watch the children in their relentless mobility, intent on their immediate desire, pleasure, or anger.