Sentence examples for we desire something else from inspiring English sources
To desire something is to be to some extent motivated to do it but of course we often fail to do what we desire because we desire something else more, because it is impractical or out of some form of weakness.
Once his impulses desired something else he would act on them irrespective of who was getting hurt.
I desire to see her and hear her, perhaps even touch her, and nothing else; I therefore desire something impossible.
As we have learned from René Girard, this is precisely how desires are born: I desire something by way of imitation, because someone else already has it.
In order to go to bed and wake up with the same person every day of our lives, till death or something else we desire do us part, we need to take the opposite attitude.
The desire for something else – anything else – is fuelling both the Trump and Sanders insurgencies.
But the films were commercially disappointing, indicating the audience's desire for something else.
And then we invent something else.
We lost something else, indescribable.
Now we have something else".
