You think you have loftier desires than to fuck Ilona Staller?
The film's strategically vague title gestures toward a lofty, earnest desire so familiar and unobjectionable that it is scarcely recognizable as an ideology.
These notions often seem lofty because we desire that someone other than ourselves initiate the change and we find ourselves awaiting a leader.
While France's then-President Nicolas Sarkozy publicly said he wished to free the Libyan people from tyranny, Blumenthal's memo argues that he was driven by a cocktail of less lofty incentives, including a desire for Libyan oil, and a fear that Qaddafi secretly planned to use his vast supply of gold to displace France's primacy in the region.
In contrast to those of so many of her confession-minded peers, her shock tactics feel principled, driven less by narcissism or the need for self-justification than by some loftier impulse: a desire to capture the past as it was, undistorted by faulty memories, moral judgments or decorative literary flourishes.
This desire and focus, while lofty, has meant that there is not enough focus to date on addressing some of the grandest challenges of our time, including pervasive and high value challenges in global health.
Representing the perfect marriage between Trump's childlike desires and his penchant for the lofty and unnecessary (wall, military parade you get the picture), his proposed idea for a Space Force was an easy target.
The 1962 war was an act of Chinese aggression most obviously springing from China's desire for western Aksai Chin, a lofty plain linking Xinjiang to Tibet.
Based in Mumbai, Wishberg gives users a platform to share wishes ranging from material desires ("Buy an iPad Mini") to loftier goals ("Climb Mount Everest").
Citizens could hear lofty tragic operas, sensual madrigals exploring the pangs of desire and bawdy street songs.
