Sentence examples for ordinary desire from inspiring English sources

But in places like Pasco County and Cape Coral it was the ordinary desire of ordinary people to buy their own homes that turned things septic.

Its characters are no different from the rest of us, in the cluster of their annoyances and kicks, yet utterly removed from us by a system that frowns upon ordinary desire.

Such a naked, erotic desire for death is so disturbing that it doesn't seem possible for it to be treated like ordinary desire.

"In my opinion, I am a very ordinary person, having very ordinary desires," she said.

Can it be that we are no longer confident to identify even our most ordinary desires without a professional to guide us?

It's all too human in its suggestion that ordinary desires – for love, for respect, for money, for power – can lead to devastating consequences.

What Highsmith liked to do best was to probe the interstices of uneventful existences, winkling out suppressed emotions that might turn rancid, ordinary desires that lead to an unscheduled encounter with evil.

It is a marvellous peculiarity of the action that, in a sense, there is no action, beyond learning: Angelo, the unjust judge, has in the end done nothing except to experience ordinary human desire, which frightens and horrifies him so much that he raises on it terrible fantasies of dying and killing.

Ordinary life desires.

After 2015, it is unlikely there will be many people in Ireland who will not know about us, or have a sense of how ordinary our desires are, or see how normal and middle-of-the-road most of us are.

The three major prongs of Dai's critique of Neo Confucians like Wang were that they (1) encouraged people to treat their subjective opinions as the deliverances of some infallible moral sense, (2) projected Buddhist inspired concepts back onto the ancient Confucian classics, and (3) ignored the ethical value of ordinary physical desires.