Sentence examples for rather than desire from inspiring English sources

Stirred by hunger rather than desire, she grows from a creature of duty to a free individual.

Many family-owned companies fail because the children have joined out of duty rather than desire, he said.

The majority of political programming belongs to the genre of "public service" broadcasting, surviving in the schedules through obligation rather than desire.

Boyle's theme is now renunciation rather than desire, although given the kind of desire we have been looking at, it's a little hard to tell them apart.

In generic terms, "Knocked Up" puts the cart before the horse — the accidental baby, rather than desire, pulls the young man, who has to leave his male friends behind, into civilization.

In generic terms, "Knocked Up" puts the cart before the horse the accidental baby, rather than desire, pulls the young man, who has to leave his male friends behind, into civilization.

We have ended up as objects of desire rather than "desiring beings".

On such views, rather than desiring-in-imagination that Romeo and Juliet live, what I desire -in-actuality) is that in the fiction Romeo andesire -in-actuality

It was Meinong who first insisted on the distinction between feeling and desire, although he regarded feelings rather than desires to be determinative of values (Meinong 1894, §§ 5 6).

Jay: Some might say that all this picture is consistent with one of a desire to cover up rather than a desire to expose.

Decisions regarding care are often determined by the desire to generate income rather than the desire to serve the needs of the client [ 33].