Sentence examples for nervous desire from inspiring English sources

Fancy things always suggest a nervous desire to be splendid".

A failure to acknowledge and investigate difference is not necessarily the result of a nervous desire to avoid being shamed as a racist.

Their common desire for limits on the possession of firearms is not a sudden, nervous desire set off by the assassination attempt on Governor George C. Wallace or by the latest alarming statistics on the crime rate.

The radiant durability she displayed while playing a man in "Scarlett" continued to inform her best work thereafter -- that role gave her an effrontery that eventually supplanted the nervous desire to please that characterized the parts preceding "The Philadelphia Story".

All the banks are nervous and strongly desire a solution".

Doesn't the nervous tension overwhelm the desire to be consistent?

With the increased understanding of the sympathetic nervous system came a desire to influence its effects for health benefits.

This material show promise for wound healing applications where regeneration of nervous tissue connections is desired, as it will act to prevent infection, allow oxygen to the wound site through micron sized pores, provide a nanotextured substrate material for nervous and tissue growth, and stimulate reconnection of nerve cells by electrical pulsing.

This knowledge on the structural mechanism behind the receptor selectivity should help to design new antipsychotic agents with preferable binding profiles, and the established computational protocols realize virtual screening and structure-based drug design for other central nervous system drugs with desired selectivity for multiple targets.

Suffering from nervous exhaustion, Liszt expressed a desire to become a priest.

Ms. Roehm says the amateur movement stems at least in part from the desire of a nervous monied class to live a simpler, more authentic life.