Sentence examples for peculiar desires from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

A young woman writing under a pseudonym cited her and her friends' experiences to assert that for more and more men, "the buffet of fetishistic porn available 24/7" had created very particular and sometimes very peculiar, ratcheted-up desires.

But most importantly he both bothers to and can understand his student's soul at a particular moment in time and therefore manages to lead the youth, and himself incidentally, to a more profound understanding of the nature of the soul, that peculiar amalgam of desire and rectitude.

Not that some in the audience will care much about the writer's needs by then, having sat by and watched as he gratified them while neglecting everybody else's — including, in the case of Jeffrey Lent's third novel, "A Peculiar Grace," the presumptive desire of his protagonist (a middle-aged, stoic loner named Hewitt Pearce who loved and lost and must learn to love again).