Sentence examples for intending something from inspiring English sources

However, the poet may be also intending something more subversive, since "barus" also means "burdensome", "grievous" and "oppressive".

Suddenly it was on its feet barking loudly and menacingly at the door we were standing behind, as though it had sensed we were intending something and resented that.

That is, thinking, believing, intending, etc., all involve thinking, believing, or intending something.

It might be further held that this causation by the agent consists entirely in causation by mental events or states of certain kinds, such as the agent's desiring, believing, or intending something in particular.

Avicenna also argues that an agent's intending something distinct from itself implies the agent's multiplicity, since it involves multiple acts of knowledge, e.g., knowledge of the intention, of the reason for the intention and of the benefit to the agent to be derived from the intention (Avicenna MH: 326; McGinnis 2010: 206 208).

Stalin intended something else.

Yet he intends something broader and richer by the comparison with Colette.

So by "play" we might guess he intended something other than lightness of spirits.

For, from the moment John Cole arrives, we know that this limbo intends something for him, something irrevocably transformative.

When the conductor Charles Dutoit planned the program that the Philadelphia Orchestra presented at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday evening, he presumably intended something along the lines of a valedictory statement.

Some scientists say that a glitch led ESA to publish more data than it had originally intended, something that ESA denies.