Sentence examples for intellectual desires from inspiring English sources

Relationships form a part of her characters' arcs, but it's their intellectual desires, their yearning to transform themselves and their world, that Gunderson foregrounds.

Given that she is unhappy in her current marriage with an aloof, underachieving husband (that rather her cook dinner every day for him and go to church more to become "a better wife") Smollett-Bell's character is less understood given that she instead pursues a man that matches more of her professional, sexual and intellectual desires.

There is a clash, she readily acknowledged, between her intellectual desire for restraint and her anger.

What drove the Terror was not a crazed intellectual desire to extend the Revolution to every corner of existence but a desperate desire to maintain its achievements in the face of opposition.

Besotted by consumerism, it seems that we don't feel that our objects of desire, even our objects of intellectual desire, are truly valuable unless we pay for them, and dearly.

Because first they would have to define those words for him, and that might take the kind of nuanced history lesson that our president doesn't have the patience to listen to, or the intellectual desire and capacity to understand.

Our inner stop signs are often ignored, because our intellectual woman desires the tangible evidence that come with unmovable doubt.

She was a woman of elemental energy and intellectual curiosity, desiring to create as well as to control.

In those days, she would skulk around at night putting up posters with texts culled from Karl Marx, Susan Sontag and other intellectuals: "The desire to reproduce is a death wish" was one; "Romantic love was invented to manipulate women" another.

Dividing your time between the lab and the hospital may seem like the ideal way to satisfy both intellectual and vocational desires, but juggling both careers brings a unique set of challenges and rewards.

To this end, one may see the Olympics as, first and foremost, an intellectual project – a desire to promote a higher education.