Sentence examples for overcome desire from inspiring English sources

Is she perhaps desirable to me only insofar as I'm able to overcome desire?

Individual differences in ability to overcome desire to fall asleep cannot be accurately predicted from subjective and objective measurements of sleepiness level.

It seems that the anterior-posterior gradients in the EEG indexes of sleep pressure are the objective correlates of individual's ability to overcome desire to fall asleep.

The anterior-posterior gradients in SSPC and 2PC scores were calculated as the differences between frontal and occipital scores and examined as possible correlates of individual's ability to overcome desire of falling asleep.

Along these lines, Michael Wilcockson says it symbolizes those who wish to overcome desires and be less selfish.

He faxed a simple retirement statement to his hometown newspaper, The Wichita Eagle, that said, among other things, his desire to stop playing had overcome his desire to continue.

To say that he doesn't have a desire is ridiculous – to say that he can't overcome that desire by the reality that's just not going to happen [is another]." Thi sprompted a scathing response from Abbott's former chief of staff, Peta Credlin, who did not mince her words on Sky News last night: I think that's absolute rubbish.

"Just as the body is overcome by desire, so naturalism is overcome by surrealism," Mr. Palfi declares.

It's probably not because prospective partners are overcome with desire at the sultry way you hit the "smiling poop" icon.

Is there a moment at which you have to overcome your desire for privacy and put yourself out there, if only for the sake of this documentary?

They were to be married; but, when the great poet Aithirne the Importunate and his two sons (also poets) saw Luaine, they were overcome with desire for her.