Sentence examples for old desire from inspiring English sources

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But then the old desire for a daughter would come creeping back.

"I observe my pulse is high, for example, and that's obviously because I am stricken with a recurrence of an old desire".

The urge to take it on the lam from ourselves -- Mr. McMurtry's "old desire to be on the move" -- just isn't what it used to be.

Perhaps the desire to squeeze our highest emotions into the straitjacket of a single concept is as arbitrary and unnecessary as the old desire to group things into sevens.

Whether because of pent-up consumer demand, more tightly focused choices that help clarify decisions or that old desire to have the latest thing, women appear to be migrating back to stores with renewed interest.

It's too early to say whether any of this will have any lasting benefit, but there is one important difference in how I have begun to approach the game: the old desire to cheat that has been with me since childhood is diminished.

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It is worth remembering, though, how many apparent innovations draw on old desires – even if the means and resources are new.

Wanting to direct is like what we were talking about before — about transition, passage and replacing old desires with new ones.

But unintended consequences, and particularly economic forces, have played perhaps an even bigger role in arranging the new sexual landscape: certain moral barriers drop, and then capitalism rushes in with, say, Internet porn, stoking old desires and creating new ones.

Participants comprised patients at Tokyo Dental College Hospital or Fukuoka Dental College Hospital who were ≥ 20 years old, desired implant treatment in the posterior region, and consented to the details of the study protocols.

You wrench yourself out of the life-flow, drawn by your intense attachment to your old desires...if there is game distraction around you, you will find yourself dropping back".

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