Sentence examples for obscure desire from inspiring English sources

It might have been an obscure desire to punish her mother who had huge ambitions for her little princess.

Amid a sea of battle-hardened smiles and dead-eyed robotic faces (think The Stepford Wives meets The Terminator), her youthful looks are a fetishised object of hardly obscure desire.

While his wish to memorialise the tragedy seems genuine, one suspects that a thirst for career-advancing publicity, as well as an obscure desire to provoke, were even bigger motivating factors.

He has a body "like every other: warm, full of obscure desires".

He is the conscious mind, with its mastery of skill and craft, its faculty of ordering, selecting, making rational and persuasive; she is the subconscious mind, driven by disorder, fuelled by obscure desires, brimming with promises that perhaps she won't keep, with promises of revelation, fantasies of empowerment and knowledge.

I believe that it may be more poetic than scientific, that behind a seemingly simple, petty crime, lurks a mysterious world of hidden desires and obscure longings.

Two hours fly by as they argue a multitude of conflicts, but it's the moments where they get along that really break the heart -- showing how countries obscure the desire of their people.

Obscuring their desires in an over-bright halo also obscures the futures that we lost with them.

Yet Breton, who himself wrote love poetry of some merit, never allowed women to participate in the group's discussions: if a man was doing the desiring, it seems, it sufficed for a woman to be "That Obscure Object of Desire," as Buñuel named his last movie in 1977.

His obscure object of desire?

Review of Luis Bunuel's latest film "That Obscure Object of Desire".