Sentence examples for violent desire from inspiring English sources

Ms. Shaw said that she had "a violent desire to explode in language".

But this violent desire to erase a life in a native language is only wishful thinking.

Indeed, the word (pronounced FRAY-gola) is used to describe animals in heat, and can mean lust or violent desire.

But the very temptation of this thought is a warning: in my state of violent desire, dare I trust an idea that encourages me to betray my word and to side with the passion I'm struggling to overcome?

Beginning with the tale of the childless Queen of Longtrellis (Salma Hayek) who would rather lose her husband to a sea monster than go without offspring – "a violent desire such as yours can only be satisfied with violence…" – Tale of Tales intertwines three rites of passage narratives that collectively portray female self-determination through steely (and frequently tragic) resolve.

And yet Equus - and this is one of the many things that make it so powerful - is not so much a play about passion, a play extolling the passionate life of violent desire, but a play about what happens to people when passion becomes their object of desire.

For instance, a mysterious cloaked figure in Tale of Tales observes that "violent desires can only be satisfied by violence", but the line could have come from any of Garrone's previous films.

In a world that offers ever more virtual experiences of ever-greater sophistication, which allow us to play out the most lurid and even violent desires, will the court majority's legal logic hold?

Every so often, however, a dybbuk appears to take over Cass's voice as she abruptly and explosively admits to violent desires, like wanting to kick her ostensibly bland husband (Alan Tudyk) in the face.

She was paid "over twice as much" as her £150 book-festival fee, to deliver a slickly rehearsed talk on subjects from the detective story's role in sublimating our violent desires – "Who hasn't wanted to kill their news editor?" she recalled of her years as a reporter – to reinventing the Bible as a crime novel.

Zits also knows the customs and violent desires of the cavalry division he'll lead in the guise of Augustus Sullivan, the best Indian tracker in the United States Army: "Whenever I zig, Gus makes me zag and so, zigzagging through the trees and grass and hills, we make our way toward the Indian camp.