It requires "a constant preference of public to private interest" (SL 4.5); it "limits ambition to the sole desire, to the sole happiness, of doing greater services to our country than the rest of our fellow citizens" (SL 5.3); and it "is a self-renunciation, which is ever arduous and painful" (SL 4.5).
Absolute control of art and of madness is her sole desire and her sole vanity.
Yet I wonder how surprising it is for television to feature a bunch of "fabulous" gay guys whose sole desire is to make the world a better place for straight men.
The sole desire seems to have been to obtain strong platforms capable of supporting ever taller and heavier busts, the classical moai of the middle period.
She is called Elsa, and her merest touch is arctic; she wears gloves to stop the spread of such contagious cold, and, even when she flees and holes up in a mountain palace, her sole desire is to be alone.
Although Soma's sole desire is to leave the castle, Graham is convinced that Soma must be killed for binding the souls of the castle's demons.
She is a sole object of desire, out of reach and unattainable to the men below, the voyeurs, as they gaze longingly upward.
Two prominent and predictable themes sex and death are perhaps not worth dwelling on, other than to point out that Obama is not the only one whose safety people worry about, nor is he the sole object of romantic desire.
Two prominent and predictable themes — sex and death — are perhaps not worth dwelling on, other than to point out that Obama is not the only one whose safety people worry about, nor is he the sole object of romantic desire.
With more than a mile to run, Moore's rivals allowed him to build a five-length lead, and while the gap closed as Highland Reel's rider gave him time to catch his breath, he was guaranteed the first run in the straight and only Wings Of Desire, the sole three-year-old in the race, offered any hint of a threat in the final quarter-mile.
