Sentence examples for which desires from inspiring English sources

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.

When the writer arrived in America, a wiser friend informed him about the differences between an Ellis Island hospital, which desires F.M.G.s, and a Plymouth Rock hospital--university, which never takes F.M.G.s.

The Buddha and, among the Greeks, Plato and Plotinus, all held that life in the time flow, though not wholly illusory, is at best a low-grade condition by comparison, respectively, with the Buddhist Nirvāṇa (in which desires are extinguished) and with the Platonic world of Ideas; i.e., of incorporeal timeless exemplars, of which phenomena in the time flow are imperfect and ephemeral copies.

The dangers of this development, he astutely points out, is that it reflects a willful determination to deny or ignore her role in promoting Hitler and the Reich, and points, in Germany especially, to "a questionable comprehension of history, which desires to attain 'normality' at any price".

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

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

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".