Sentence examples for material desires and from inspiring English sources
His characters inhabit a world of material desires and sensual appetites in which lust, greed, and ambition are the driving forces, and any higher feelings are either absent or doomed to cruel disappointment.
Seeking detachment from all material desires and peeling away the layers of maya are difficult tasks.
One of the film's main takeaways is to get off the "hedonistic treadmill" of material desires, and onto the more solid footing of cooperation and service.
The uncle said he understood well the weaker parts of his nephew, the pieces of ambition, material desire and risk-taking that led him to a witness chair in a federal courtroom.
The ways in which our basic material needs have, over the span of evolution, given rise to our basic non-material desires and in turn created a non-material invariant of hope is the root of all faith in the future and it is one which I will continue to maintain.
Shiva decreed that those who repeat her mantra and worship her will have their material desires satisfied and gain control over foes, declaring her the giver of boons.
Try going to thrift stores more often to get cheaper things (not because you're cheap, but because you're not going to obsess over material desires)- and most of the time they're not bad looking either!! This'll open you up more to the joy and positivity inside your heart~.
Chelsea Through June 5 With deadpan irony, Jim Richard meditates on one of the modern artist's main moral challenges: how to reconcile spiritual aspirations and material desires.
Modest in his personal habits and his material desires, Yasir Arafat was grandiose only in his sense of mission.
The lure of joining a commune and overcoming material desires may seem like the only way the planet will endure but Quentin Atkinson, associate professor of psychology at the University of Auckland, says pulling it off successfully has its own challenges.
In this process, man develops his original goodness, for human nature is basically good, or regains his goodness if it has been corrupted and lost through material desires (wuyu).
