Sentence examples for spirited desire from inspiring English sources

For all of its spirited desire to entertain, "Tour de Farce," currently at New Jersey Repertory Company here, never really faces that test; the conceit that the authors, Philip LaZebnik and Kingsley Day, trade upon betrays them before that point.

As types of non-rational desire, appetitive and spirited desires can conflict with our rational desires about what contributes to our overall good, and they will sometimes move us to act in ways we recognize to be against our greater good.

Human beings have, so to speak, one leg in each realm: Through the body and its non-rational soul (the seat of appetitive and spirited desires and sense-perception) they belong to the sensible realm, through their higher soul (intellect) to the intelligible.

"It was spirited.

The Scouts' spirited founder.

He liked them spirited.

How spirited?

The others invite spirited debate.

Fancy, no, but spirited, yes.

The talk was spirited.

Was she just spirited?