Sentence examples for stir desire from inspiring English sources

Some time in the 19th century, Walter Savage Landor composed an epitaph that, while recalling the beauty of a woman now dead, acknowledges its lasting power to stir desire in aged blood:    "Stand close around, ye Stygian set,    With Dirce in one boat conveyed,    Or Charon, seeing, may forget    That he is old and she a shade".

Brownstones occupy a unique place in the New York City psyche, as one of the city's most prototypical signposts, like yellow cabs and fast walkers, yet are able to stir aching desire and teeth-baring jealousy.

Anti-terrorist liberals hope the war will be limited and that, as after Pearl Harbor, the communal spirit that has animated New Yorkers and other Americans since Sept. 11 will stir a desire to ease domestic injustices.

And while the search for hidden bays and ominous swells in faraway lands is an oft-repeated formula, it never fails to stir a desire to head for the coast.

And it is the role of advertising to constantly stir up desire, frequently for the unnecessary.

We want stories to stir our desires.

Paradise of a Lesser Bird Circling the rooftops, looking for a place to land, we want to stir our desires.

All that said, I found that three articles set in my native South stirred a desire to bear witness to the persistence of some distinctly regional themes in this broad narrative about race in America's new century.

Syria, Iran and particularly Turkey, which fought a 15-year war against its own Kurdish insurgency, are fearful that Kurdish independence could stir similar desires in their own Kurdish populations.

Unification and the return to an emotive capital, Berlin, from the quiet retreat in Bonn have stirred a desire among some Germans to question the postwar taboos over national pride.

Sharing my story helped me heal and stirred my desire to help other women, on a larger scale.