Sentence examples for which desire from inspiring English sources

("Parties which desire it, can suffer themselves to be tickled," he recommended).

The couplings have the feel of laboratory experiments during which desire is analyzed to death.

The straight-faced quip is a halcyon reminder of an era in which desire was the reason to have sex with someone you didn't have feelings for.

Molière's brilliant farce is about trust and the division between what is said in polite society and the craven ways in which desire manifests itself.

At the heart of my affinity might be what the critic Julia Kristeva calls "abjection," in which desire and repulsion form "an inescapable boomerang".

The promise of sex tends to be far more erotic than its fulfillment, and striptease maintained its erotic allure by elaborating on the phase during which desire is at its fiercest.

But it is possible both to desire the bad (to desire what I desire not to desire) and to have bad desires (to have desires which I desire to desire not to desire).

Instead, they are the ground on which desires, which he takes to be the motivating elements of personality, take root.

The animating question behind these tales of beastly alliances, however, remains: Which desires are quashed, and which are awakened?

Watching the human traffic on either side I wonder how we will ever know which desires we can call our own and whether it matters or not.

Persons care about which desires lead them to action.