Sentence examples for one of desire from inspiring English sources

The story of first contacts between such tribes and the Portuguese was one of desire for metal tools trumping well-founded suspicion of white men.

Likewise, Jed's relationship with Olga generates little heat, but some atrocious prose (a faithful copy, by Gavin Bowd, of the original shopworn French): "Then they looked at one another, for a few seconds, speechless, and Jed had no doubt: the look she plunged into his own was well and truly one of desire.

And as the mannequin makes clearer as a fetish, a thing, a commodity, a possession, and an obsession, so it highlights how its magic might act upon us, how it might become for us an object for adoration and devotion, and even one of desire, lust, and sex.

In the light of this, it is also interesting to note that while fewer than 20% of service users in our study received non-medical treatment, this was highlighted as one of desired areas of additional support.

He reduces the affects to the three primary ones of desire, joy and sadness.

Jay: Some might say that all this picture is consistent with one of a desire to cover up rather than a desire to expose.

Then, as he neared the end of the final boxful, his mood changed to one of irresistible desire.

Each one of them desired a deeper connection to nature, and many agreed that they were professionally driven by a desire to nurture and to create.

That's been one of my desires – to create a transformation of musical ideas.

The problem is that one of the desires that awakens, or that seems to awaken, is homosexual.

"We need the refugee species, the discards that ask for nothing more than the home that each and every one of us desires".