Sentence examples for instruments of desire from inspiring English sources
One of my favorite passages in pop-music studies appears in "Instruments of Desire," an erudite paean to the electric guitar, by Steve Waksman, of Smith College.
Pop-music courses draw crowds of students on college campuses, and academic presses are putting out such portentous titles as "Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience," "Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture," and "Running with the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music".
When these technological fixes include prenatal genetic screening and the possible modification of IVF embryos, it is suggested that genetic reductionism contributes to the commodification of children by making them an instrument of parental desire (Darnovsky 2001).
And of course this Faust makes a complicated pact with Mephistopheles, which effectively reveals the devil as the instrument not only of desire but of a God who will sanction anything in the name of desire.
In Iraq, the United States now makes no secret of its earnest wish to see Saddam Hussein overthrown, or of its support for the opposition groups that it hopes will be the instrument of its desires.
These new brand ambassadors are almost the perfect instruments for surreptitiously sparking and cultivating a groundswell of desire within desired target markets.
Objects of desire Philip Ball | Homunculus | 5 May 2014 Why were old scientific instruments so beautiful, when modern ones are merely functional?
The outsourcing of desire?
