Sentence examples for imprisoned desire from inspiring English sources

The movement technique Graham developed -- with her first, exclusively female troupe -- described imprisoned desire in erotic terms.

Tackling major issues — the country's catastrophic shortage of women, the improbability of economic rescue — in a minor key, "The Shaft" is a triptych of imprisoned desire.

Mostly, they are pathetic creatures, imprisoned by sexual desire.

Luce Irigaray, in her poem "And the One Doesn't Stir Without the Other", gives these words to a woman talking to her mother: "Imprisoned by your desire for a reflection, I become a statue, an image of your immobility.

Nicole liberates Davy, who's gently transformed by their late-night heavy breathing, even as she imprisons him in desire.

Whether Cai has been imprisoned by his country's desire for a perfect Olympics won't be known until August.

For another, successful people often become imprisoned by their success, in their desire to keep social approval and provide for their families.

Coolly and without tub-thumping, Magee observed that it was ridiculous and pointless to condemn, much less to imprison, men who desired other men.

Mandela became conscious of "an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people".

In Time and Desire, Morphesis' rose images are tightly imprisoned within their square wood panels.

But he knew why: "A thousand slights, a thousand indignities," he said, had produced "an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people".