Sentence examples for plausible desire from inspiring English sources

Duckworth's particular delusion is not to do with his nearest and dearest, but with his appallingly plausible desire, despite his greed and ruthlessness, to view himself as a morally upright individual.

Even viewers who resent the plot machinery of "Love Affair" are likely to fall for Dunne and Boyer, who seemed so natural within the movie's artifice -- imbued with plausible regrets, moved by a plausible desire to make their lives better.

It seems equally plausible that desire aims at what is good for the agent.

Daniel Nolan (2007) has recently argued that Lewis's approach is less plausible for desire than for belief, and Robert Stalnaker (2008) argues that the view makes the wrong judgments about sameness and difference of belief across agents and times.

But it is highly plausible that "desirable" means something like "fittingly or correctly desired" — after all, desirability is a normative, not a merely descriptive, characteristic, and it has something to do with desire.

Another, this one more plausible, involved the desire to see a singular event, a home run slugged by a certain third baseman, before the Yankees skipped town for a more meaningful series against Tampa Bay.

Some fighters are religious novices, says Mr Maher.More plausible explanations are the desire to escape the ennui of home and to find an identity.

The notion that the concept of consumerism can be applied to healthcare seems plausible given patient's desire for choice [ 9- 12].

It is generally agreed that pleasure is desired for its own sake, and it is plausible that many people also desire the welfare of their children, the success of their favorite sports teams, and the end of injustice, and desire them all intrinsically.

It also disarms my prejudice against that sort of work, as being a product more of institutional programs — biennials, inevitably — than of plausible human interests and desires.

These are the properties for which functionalism is most plausible, e.g., beliefs and desires.