Sentence examples for this very desire from inspiring English sources

And yet this very desire for authenticity has turned some of the last truly unreconstructed frontiersmen in America into that least authentic of creatures: the minor celebrity.

It is this very desire for purity and authenticity that drives the whole wretched industry of New Age obscurantism and its multiple techniques of spiritual and material "detox," its quasi-cultic, multimillion-dollar grossing insistence on the Secret.

But it was this very desire for independence that provoked her father into a rage so great that he killed her in January, turning her into the tragic emblem of a European society's failure to bridge the gap in attitudes between its own culture and those of its newer arrivals.

And it is the space that only God can begin to fill. 1) Do you want to believe in God? Could you see this very desire as one way that God has of drawing you closer?

To embrace monarchy is to deny, absolutely, the very desire for equality.

He knew how to bring me back: by acknowledging the very desire that had driven me away.

While I admittedly worry about the effects — both good and bad — of this desire, my concern in the piece was not with "abuses" of science but with the very desire itself and what it unconsciously represses.

The film begins by mocking the very desire for a nostalgic return to the days of the Raj that it then proceeds to emulate.

By depriving people of the means to fight back, they are able to not only prevent an uprising but kill the very desire for revolution.

When this became no longer possible, they tried to control which books they read, whereas now they simply distract them by mass culture that kills the very desire to read.

This strategy does not seem to vindicate death itself, since death may preclude the fulfillment of some of the very desires it destroys.