Sentence examples for without desires from inspiring English sources

This diminishes both genders, with its assumption that men are little more than lustful beasts, unable to restrain their libido, and the parallel assumption that women are passive receptacles without desires of their own, forced to submit to demands for sex regardless of what they want.

Then Epicureans may be able to revive their attack on the posthumous harm thesis: dying ensures that we cannot be harmed by posthumous events, since we are without desires long before these occur (Vorobej, 1998).

Without desires, hopes and dreams, people lose their minds.

Yet it seems to have been love without desire.

The purusha is ubiquitous, all-conscious, all-pervasive, motionless, unchangeable, immaterial, and without desire.

South Africa were hyperactive despite their limited ability, while France were without desire, answers or a clue.

They have eyes and ears, but from their childhood on they make themselves blind and deaf, without love and without desire".

There's the rule of thumb (which is even more extra): the essence of pornography is sex for money, without desire or even appetite.

Yohan is curiously without desire — which creates a challenge, since fiction is, as Faulkner put it, about "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself".

Release (moksha) from rebirth and the attainment of bliss comes from knowledge of this identity between the true self and the brahman and is procured by "the one who does not desire, who is without desire, whose desire is satisfied, whose desire is the self".

Indeed, the account of his affair with Jiang Qing read like a classic bodice-ripper, overheated and faintly absurd: " 'Everyone expects me to be a stone Buddha without desire or feelings,' he gasps on top of her.