Sentence examples for the desirous from inspiring English sources
adjective
Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.
Guru Dutt's melodramatic Pyaasa or "The desirous one" is extraordinary, a film that draws on all the features of a mainstream movie to achieve a high aesthetic, from the beautiful photography of the Christ-like tormented poet, the beauty of the streetgirl (Waheeda Rehman) and the wonderful music with some of the great Sahir Ludhianvi's best lyrics.
Thus where Book 9 examines the desirous part of the soul and finds its objects to be mere idols, Book 10 determines mimêsis to be a show of mere idols and concludes that it keeps company with the soul's desirous part.
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As soon as the boy saw the desirous, sex-craved look in the rodent Rove eyes, he ran.
She suggests that the annual's purpose was to "conduct the desirous to the embrace of a prostitute", and that its prose was designed for "solitary sexual enjoyment" (H. Ranger also sold back-issues of Harris's List).
By making both Jemima and Maria prostitutes, Wollstonecraft rejects two contemporary stereotypes of the prostitute: the image of the woman who takes pleasure in her actions and is in love with her keeper and the image of the victim desirous of pity.
One axis divides traditional political liberals and conservatives; the other divides those desirous of freedom from the state and those who want a bigger state.
The four-foot iambic line is a great device, and has been used by the poet desirous of greater speed, and more emphatic rhythm, than the pentameter provides: dog starv'd at his Master's Gate Predicts the ruin of the State.
Mostly, though, they see the stimulus package passed by Congress for what it is -- A PURE UNADULTERATED LENINGASM that would prevent the more desirous outcome of a long and painful exacerbation of the economic downturn.
There is eros, the erotic, desirous, and dynamic half of our nature, and then there is thanatos, the "death instinct" — a lethargy that pulls us toward numbness, quietness, and repetition.
Rome appears to be the most desirous.
