Sentence examples for misguided desire from inspiring English sources
Educators must show courage, invoke meaningful penalties for academic dishonesty and stand up to parents' misguided desire to "advocate" for student plagiarists.
"It is pertinent to ask," wrote Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell, the scientists who brought us Dolly, "whether curiosity, vanity, the wish for personal power or an undoubtedly misguided desire for immortality really are good enough reasons for bringing a child into the world".
Just as common a failing is the misguided desire to be all things to all people.
Instead, it is based mostly on culture and economic necessities – and a misguided desire to punish drug users harshly.
That appalling decision, driven by the misguided desire to have a leader for all formats, left so many scars.
Mercifully, my father has better sense and stays home on election day, intoxicating away any misguided desire to vote.James Moyer Cleveland, Ohio* Letter appears online only.
"You haven't done any research on this". He reminded Augustín that the board had agreed to run hablar claro without testing it first, buying in to his argument that the company needed to get out in front of consumers rather than be led around by their misguided desires.
It all flows through you, and to stamp it out for the sake of other peoples often misguided desires and beliefs is to do the greatest disservice of your time on this spinning planet of ours.
As more engagements popped into my newsfeed, and I started watching my close friends walk down the aisle in person, I noticed that the misguided, gnawing desire to join them had faded into a pleasant inner-musing of "someday".
Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi of the Talmud was misguided in his strong desire to meet the Messiah, hoping to bypass death because "death is still around.
Were Britain's leaders misguided, blinded by the desire to preserve its great-power status and to create a welfare state when they should have been rebuilding industry and improving infrastructure, as others in Europe were doing?
