Sentence examples for strength of desire from inspiring English sources
A litter of cans and wrappers in the headlights revealed that others had been here before, also pushing aside the boulder in their strength of desire.
New methods, derived from animal work, for measuring food reward value (i.e. reinforcing value of food), and motivation (i.e. strength of desire) to consume, in humans are described and validated.
However, we often say that some things give us more pleasure than others, even where the experiences are otherwise diverse and the relevant difference does not seem one only of strength of desire.
Indeed, once the individual has reached a certain stage of development, the strongest desire cannot be followed if it is counter to a man's character — "his strength of character overcomes the strength of desire" (PE 105).
Again, this would seem to indicate some idiosyncrasy in how effectively my desire is poised to influence my feelings, rather than indicating a difference in strength of desire (in this case, getting chicken pox seems like an expected ordeal of childhood, and that seems to blunt my felt response).
An array of citizenship initiatives is emerging to counter conservatism, demonstrating the strength of desire – particularly among our youth –for radical change.
This requires abstracting from or ignoring the particular reference to this sailor or that storm; it requires that I operate upon general notions of actions, motive, preference, strength of desires, choice and so on.
There is some impressively dramatic staging at the start, as Shakti establishes Salome's strength and her intensity of desire.
That also has to do with potency, there's such a loss of strength, loss of desire, it's really terrible for our relationship because I have no strength.
Drawing upon Alfred Mele's work, Haji explains that a motivational base of any desire contains positive and negative elements that figure in the motivational strength of that desire.
