We have ended up as objects of desire rather than "desiring beings".
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.
Talk of preference, rather than desire, tends to dominate the literature of decision theory.
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
In the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) is isaidid that - by necessity rather than desire - French soldiers developed a certain taste for cheval.
