Sentence examples for which when thwarted from inspiring English sources

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Attachment breeds desire, the lust of possession which, when thwarted, burns to anger.

Give yourself permission to play, to seek joy and connect to a vital source of energy, which when, thwarted, emerges as violence.

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Leopold did what he would always do when thwarted.

I had a violent temper, and when thwarted, I'd throw anything handy — a museum quality vase or leftover feces.

People have a fundamental need to belong that, when thwarted, can affect cognition and behavior in ways designed to regain social connection.

And when thwarted, just hit out.

When thwarted of its immediate aim, an ape will often sequence several different gestures together (Call and Tomasello 2007a, pp. 209 212).

Oe's first novel since he won the Nobel Prize, in 1994, takes place against the background of a religious cult's terrorist plan (even more drastic than Aum Shinrikyo's 1995 gas attack on the Tokyo subway), which is thwarted when the cult's leaders appear on television to renounce their creed the "somersault" of the title.

One of them may be Saks Fifth Avenue, which was thwarted last year when it tried to move its Garden City store to Roosevelt Field.

We know this from his firing of James Comey, last May, and his attempted firing of Mueller, last June, which was reportedly only thwarted when the White House counsel, Don McGahn, threatened to quit.

More to the point: it's the way in which they thwart straightforward interpretation that grants them their power.

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