Sentence examples for desire from high-quality English sources.

• Desire is the charge that runs through this electrifying debut.

• Ross): ‘desire is consequent on opinion rather than opinion on desire’.

• But her death has changed me, I no longer desire what I used to desire.

• I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is no     dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the world.

• To desire is to want something to be the case (see the entry on desire).

• Or one might desire perseverance in being but also desire other kinds of things.

• Once acquired, an understanding of desire can illuminate a number of controversies surrounding desire.

• Definitions of sexual desire in terms of sexual pleasure seem to understand sexual desire as basically an appetite.

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• For if I desire to know the principles of natural things, no sooner do I know them than this desire is satisfied and fulfilled.

• If it were true of me that, were I fully informed I would desire some object which at present I have no desire for, giving me that object now would not benefit me.

• Nonetheless, the above idea that sexual desire can be combined with healthy emotions makes it possible that sexual desire is not always toxic, though how remains unclear.

• So defining “sexual desire” in terms of sexual arousal might be convincing only if we can understand “sexual arousal” independently of “sexual desire” (Halwani 2018b: 170–171).

• Love makes itself felt not in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

• To think, for example, that nuclear war would be bad is to desire that everyone not desire it, a desire that presumably springs from a first-order desire that there should be no such thing.

• According to these philosophers, net satisfaction of desire, or net increase in satisfaction of desire, is the standard cause of pleasure, and the pleasure caused perhaps represents this change in desire satisfaction.

• In such situations, it is said that my desire not to act on my desire to yell is a realizer desire: a desire for an end that would count as one possible realization of an intrinsic desire.

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• On Frankfurt’s account, there is no apparent reason not to regard both desires as authentic (the first-order desire because it is endorsed by the second-order desire, the second-order desire because it is a second-order desire).

• Like good-based theories of desire, Scanlon's attention-based theory of desire has not yet been engaged at length by proponents of more conservative theories of desire, and it remains to be seen what objections more conservative theorists might raise.

• By drawing on David Lewis’ account of valuing (to value x is to desire that one desire x—namely, to have a second-order desire for x), Stokes claims that value-like imagining involves imaginatively desiring to desire that the world be in a certain way.

• In the case of learning-based theories of desire, so long as there is a merely causal relation between the learning signal and the ordinary signs of desire strength, there is no contradiction in holding that a strong desire has effects like those of a weak desire, or vice versa.