Sentence examples similar to yield to desire from inspiring English sources

As their thwarted friendship suggests, however, history does not always yield to our desire for narrative closure.

Suddenly life has become more interesting: when the audience's pleasure in narrative is diverted, or postponed, it may realize how conventional that pleasure usually is — how easily most movies yield to the desire for tension, release, and resolution.

Yet all the time we are aware that this is a merely fictional situation, so there is no temptation to yield to a desire to save her.

Moral realists, they know the world does not yield easily to desire.

But I will never willingly yield to his desires.

In the first verse, a disinterested Duff sings that she is eager to speak her mind and "yield to her every desire".

He said he would leave the Army to make time for a future family life, and I yielded to his desire to put up an American flag in front of the house.

The reactions proceeded in good yield to give the desired products.

Far from engaging in a struggle with the ruling class she yielded to their desires; their power was increased and a number of crown estates were distributed among the ranks of her favourites, thus turning their peasant population into serfs.

If a person yields to the desires of the bodily or fleshly part, the total person degenerates into body.

The organic layer was briefly dried over MgSO4, concentrated, and the residue chromatographed on silica gel using the gradient system hexane/ethyl acetate 2/1 to 1.5/1 (vol/vol) to yield the desired thiohydantoin in up to 90%.