Sentence examples for peculiar desire from inspiring English sources

He kept going — challenging, as he sees it, the peculiar desire people have for athletes to go out on top.

By trying to protect an empire built on our peculiar desire to watch online videos of people reacting to online videos, two online video tycoons are now watching their followers react badly – and it's not good for business.

In the second of these contests, he claims that each part of the soul has its peculiar desire and corresponding pleasure.

He gave preferred diners more than tables: he scrambled to fulfill their heartfelt and occasionally peculiar desires.

As Zipes remarks, Baum's "own writing style and the governing style of [the good witches] Ozma and Glinda are strikingly similar: they are soothing, and attentive to the peculiar desires and needs of characters".

Loving Socrates, we may infer, is a complex business, since just what someone loves in loving him is tied to that person's peculiar desires, and the limits they impose on how like Socrates he can become.

I don't think he's a creep hell bent on infantilising a famous woman for his own peculiar desires.

Neptune energies can cause a person to have peculiar emotional desires that emanate from their unconscious mind.