Sentence examples for own desirability from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Muti, who has a sure sense of his own desirability, was playing hard to get.

By Leaming's account, when Jackie, at 22, met her future husband, "her belief in her own desirability had been utterly destroyed by her mother".

Generally, we get "sexy" when a female performer trades on her own desirability, and "rugged" when a reasonably handsome guy takes the stage with a few days' stubble.

If the Gucci woman of Mr. Ford's imagining was so convinced of her own desirability, why had she never thought of going out for a quart of milk in a flannel shirt?

Walter, we think, wants to prove something about himself, about his own desirability, by winning the kind of girl that men agree is a prize — that is, an unambiguously attractive one.

Generally, we get "sexy" when a female performer trades on her own desirability, and "rugged" when… "You can't get good Mexican food in New York" is a common refrain in this city, and, for the most part, it's true — you can get… Most "Don Quixote" ballets are pretty stupid, and the Bolshoi version, remotely descended from the 1869 original, is stupider than most.

The bodies of these public figures are prostheses for our own mutant desirability".

My Week With Marilyn portrays Marilyn Monroe Michelle Williamss) as a victim of her own overwhelming sexual desirability – a problem many Guardian readers struggle with on a daily basis.

Mitchell's own views on the desirability of colonization mirrored those of the president he served.

John Redwood, the Eurosceptic former Tory Cabinet minister, said: "If the rest of the EU continue to be so unsympathetic to UK requirements, more UK voters will draw their own conclusions about the desirability of our continued membership".

Judges thus enforce the legal rules as they are announced, regardless of the judge's own view of the desirability of the legal rule or its impact on her personally.