Sentence examples for resist wanting from inspiring English sources

She wanted to read things — could not resist wanting to read things — and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive.

It's true you might resist wanting to know the people in "Fun With Problems" or, maybe more tellingly, seeing yourself in them.

While both the idea and the app interface are simple, SwingVine gallery does have its appeal, as it's pretty hard to resist wanting to see whatever photo postcard is under wraps.

While boaters who have witnessed whales and dolphins in mourning have reported a similar awe at the sight, boats are intrusive...and it is hard to resist wanting to get closer which poses unintended risk to the whales.

Act as you can totally live without him and he will find it hard to resist wanting to hang with you.

While it can be hard to resist wanting to eliminate whiteheads by picking or popping them, doing so can actually further inflame the skin, make the whitehead problem worse, potentially cause infection, and delay skin healing.

At the time, Johnson resisted, wanting to balance the demands of the job with the sensitivities of the Kennedy family, especially the grief-stricken attorney general.

Dickens resisted, not wanting, it seems, to display his daughters in such an undistinguished manner.

Foxx resisted, not wanting to absorb the mannerisms and essence of a 70-year-old man.

The pool was created last year, but drugmakers resisted it, wanting to control quality and protect rights to future profits from middle-income countries.

It's a hard transformation to resist, or want to divert.