As soon as relief of what it desires has been accomplished, it's back trying to avoid its restless spiritual state by sedating itself with more self-deceptive desires.
But what should the Bush administration do and, more important, can it accomplish what it desires?
It contains a strong streak of hypocrisy, hating most what it desires most, and elements of self-loathing.
Then, suddenly, looks, temperament, and role all come together … and the public sees the actor, sees what it desires.
Freedom can never seize what it desires; the ideal of a self-constitution that can dispense with all but self-created value cannot be realized.
Then, suddenly, looks, temperament, and role all come together — as they did for Wayne, in "Stagecoach" (1939), and for Bogart, in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) — and the public sees the actor, sees what it desires.
Thus desire shows that the self, as agent, belongs both to the order of nature, in which desire impels, and to the order of culture or meaning, in which initiatives make sense both to the agent and to others as actions aimed at obtaining what it desires.
Nor has SWN the Texas-based gas company that New Brunswick is so eagerly courting come away with what it desires.
If a scientific claim can be loosely defined as one that scientists take seriously enough to debate, then engaging the intelligent-design movement on scientific grounds, they worry, cedes what it most desires: recognition that its claims are legitimate scientific ones.
Today, I know 'it' was the cause of not having what I desired, but it had nothing to do with my feelings of something being wrong with me.
