Sentence examples for provokes desire from inspiring English sources
One pair of Christian Louboutins glinting like jewels on a rotating mirrored pedestal provokes desire.
Yet a photograph's ability to provoke desire remains true today and can be found each week in Jonathan Lovekin's images, which accompany Nigel Slater's recipes.
In "Diary," Minnie describes her excitement at provoking desire in adult men in a bar (as well as her revulsion when they respond).
The images of snow, which provoke desires for a spiritual life, transition into an analysis of the four classical elements of fire, earth, air and water and how fire is the primary element of the four.
Just remember Shakespeare's advice, from Macbeth: "Drink sir, is a great provoker … it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance".
As Shakespeare said of drink: "It provokes the desire but takes away the performance".
The definition offered by the German physician Samuel Hafenreffer in 1660 has yet to be improved upon: An unpleasant sensation that provokes the desire to scratch.
It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.
Just multiply Shakespeare's line, "It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance," by about a thousand.
Based on a large number of experimental studies, Batson has proposed the empathy-altruism hypothesis in which feeling empathy for another provokes a desire to help him or her [20].
The coconuts have provoked no desire in him to go Baroque.
