Sentence examples for intellect and desire from inspiring English sources

Though its twenty-year-old characters — "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola" — were from a different world than the thirty-five-year-old director, the film explores the same conflicts between intellect and desire that fuelled "Contempt".

That Dietrich is very close to making the commonplace identity of the second hypostasis, the first intelligence, with the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity is hinted at when he talks about intellect and desire being the principles of return.

Despite his high intellect and desire to continue his education, he had had to stop after high school and become a merchant in the bazaar.

As a group they decided they wanted to help solve the problem of Tibet and China and brought their Western intellect and desire, coupled with quick results process orientation to bear, and presented their ideas to His Holiness.

Errors of apprehension are certainly possible, and yet a human action always originates in the apprehension of some apparent good by intellect and the desire for it by the will informed by the apprehension.

So, practical reason and desire act corporately as the sources of purposive motion in all animals, both human and non-human (De Anima iii 10, 433a9-16), even though, ultimately, it is desire whose objects prick practical intellect and set it in motion (De Anima iii 10, 433a17 2).

"Casey has a keen intellect and a strong desire to make a difference in both business and society," Bill Clinton said in an e-mail.

Taubman portrays Gorbachev as a visionary determined to "go far," a leader with "innate optimism and self-confidence, a substantial intellect," and a strong desire to prove himself, but also a gradualist undermined by his own initial uncertainty and unwillingness to abandon the Soviet system.

A kick-ass female villain often has intense desires, a searing intellect and an intriguing glamour or mesmerising repulsiveness.

In other words, seeking and desire are to be cut off from all objects of seeking and desire, and all objects of knowledge and intellect are to be eliminated from its insight's gaze.

Their stories have similar threads: smart girls who nurtured their own intellects and eventually their desires to move in a world larger than what they'd known.