Sentence examples for inordinate desire from inspiring English sources

The far larger effect of the suicide, however, was psychological, and Bess developed an inordinate desire for privacy that would cause problems for her in the White House.

Two or three times it means merely pleasure or delight, but overwhelmingly often it means at least inordinate desire or, more frequently, carnal appetite.

She has an inordinate desire to live up to the part — she works like a Trojan — but her energy spins in place, whirlpool-like, and she fails to stimulate the three exceptional actors who play her lovers.

We should be content with little, be freed from all inordinate desire, and take from this world only to the measure of our needs, foregoing that which exceeds them.

Gluttony was, as Francine Prose (author of a pert monograph, Gluttony) puts it, all about the "inordinate desire" for food, which makes us "depart from the path of reason".

She has an inordinate desire to live up to the part she works like a Trojan but her energy spins in place, whirlpool-like, and she fails to stimulate the three exceptional actors who play her lovers.

"Obsession with star power," she intones, "is producing more and more ordinary people who have inordinate desires to identify with celebrity.

Inordinate sexual desire in a female.

As a character in AS Byatt's story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" (1994) observes, the sad fact remains that for the most part women in such pre-modern Arabic stories "are portrayed as deceitful, unreliable, greedy, inordinate in their desires, unprincipled and dangerous, operating powerfully (apart from sorceresses and female ghouls and ogres) through structures of powerlessness".

First enumerated by Pope Gregory I (the Great) in the 6th century and elaborated in the 13th century by St. Thomas Aquinas, they are (1) vainglory, or pride, (2) greed, or covetousness, (3) lust, or inordinate or illicit sexual desire, (4) envy, (5) gluttony, which is usually understood to include drunkenness, (6) wrath, or anger, and (7) sloth.

Contemporary urban planning has yet to find a satisfactory answer to the question of how to diminish the negative consequences of individual transport without placing inordinate limitations on the natural human desire for mobility.