How To Use Sire In A Sentence

  • This does not exclude the existence of pockets of the urban population with unrealized homosexual desires.
  • You just can't let a little thing like his being already dead get in the way of a good, irrational hatful desire to kill! Tom Cruise is a LOT OLDER than I thought
  • Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
  • This absorbing profile muses on his universal popularity and compulsive desire to draw and paint. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the motive behind her achievement was not self-interest alone, nor the desire to carry aloft the banner of feminism.
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  • Human rebellion didn't change his desire. Christianity Today
  • The recent U.S. ranking by the World Economic Forum of 48th out of 133 developed or developing nations in quality of math and science instruction is a siren call. Jacqueline Edelberg: Political Will
  • I could not but acknowledge that the local governments had, as it seemed to him, evinced but little sympathy with Hindooism; and that whatever might be European policy in respect to religion, the East India Company might have participated in the desire which prevails in Europe to develop ancient customs, and the reasons of those customs. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
  • It is well known that if a trait is heritable, the easiest and most practical way to change the trait in a herd of cattle is through selection of the sire.
  • They consistently underachieve at school and demonstrate little desire to make headway along a career avenue to success.
  • I have what I call perverse desire, which I think is key to being an artist of any kind. FEATURED POET: REBECCA LOUDON
  • It never occurred to me that you might not realize he was your father or grandfather, or great grandsire or whatever.
  • To complete the desired effect of Edmund's cuteness, the photographer has put a posy of flowers into his hand, then perched him on a tall rattan chair from which his short legs dangle.
  • NEWPORT, Wales — Phil Mickelson came to the defense of Rory McIlroy on Wednesday, calling him one of the classiest players in golf and his desire to play Tiger Woods is the goal of every player who wants to beat the best. Phil Mickelson Addresses Tiger Woods Feud
  • Save aggressively over the next five years so she has the choice to work as an independent consultant, if she desires.
  • This magnificent bit of luck, the finding of the calisaya, awakened in the susceptible bosom of Mr. Marcoy an ardent desire to explore for himself the site of its discovery. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
  • Once again, sorry if I sped things up too quickly, but I can't change my desire to get this story finished.
  • At least it is not, so long as we avoid equivocating on the notion of satisfying a desire.
  • Its drama is anaemic, devoid of blood, fear and the electricity of repressed desire. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trail will accommodate five core activities: walking, cycling, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, and snowmobiling (where possible or desired).
  • The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
  • My desire for a desirable house will come true in the near future.
  • mousetrapping" problem with your browser that won't let you get out of endless attempts to get the action you desire from clicking, close out of the browser completely by hitting ctrl-alt-del. and then terminating the browser. Undefined
  • For a time, the revolt chilled the atmosphere in which they had to operate and stimulated a vigorous debate within their fracturing movement about the appropriate means to effect the desired end of emancipation.
  • Similar to a paternity suit, the owners must prove they do not know which horse sired the foal.
  • His desire to realize Henry VIII's plan to subdue French influence in Scotland and achieve the union of the Crowns became an obsession.
  • If you desire something strong enough and are determined to get it, there is nothing that you cannot accomplish. Dr Roopleen 
  • Shaping provides a way to reinforce approximations of the final desired behavior or result of behavior.
  • The ambiguity inherent in that fantasy of unpinning suggests not only the male desire, but also the very real potential of a female "wildness" that desires release.
  • The overall statistics include 185 progeny sired by North American stallions that were foaled abroad.
  • Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear. Know Your Own Mind
  • The process to make the cap includes positioning viscous plastic material in a mold to produce the desired retention member shape.
  • Underlying all decisions about subcontracting is the desire to make the entire project profitable.
  • It is frequently assumed that elderly persons lose their sexual desires or that they are physically unable to perform.
  • My desire is to bring the viewer out of the gallery space and into the actual physical environment of the lakebed.
  • First I desire to know to know whether these dreams of mine of a wonderful white witch-doctoress, or witch, and of my converse with her are indeed more than dreams. She and Allan
  • The tumultuous Cultural Revolution was chiefly responsible for the searing desire for change in China.
  • Throughout his career he has handled whatever has been thrown at him in a characteristically calm and dignified manner, underpinned by desire and doggedness.
  • In the figure of the sun, the text also allegorizes desire as the very medium that allows the Lover, the dreamer and the writer to ‘see.’
  • Why I come to you at this tyme, is to desire your honour unfainedly to delcare vnto me, whether anye daunger is ment towards my maistres this night or no that I and my poore fellowes maye take such part as shal please god to appoint. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • I have no desire to protract the process.
  • Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
  • At one of those remarkable omnium-gatherum receptions at the Tuileries, of which I have spoken in a former chapter, she heard an American lady, to whom Louis Philippe was talking of his American recollections and of various persons he had known there, say to him, “Oh, sire, they all retain the most lively recollections of your majesty's sojourn among them, and wish nothing more than that you should return among them again!” What I Remember
  • A letter to Solicitor General Heath, stating that the King desires him to prepare grant of denization to Beaumont. The Records of the Virginia Company of London
  • The itch to touch something rather than just look at it is responsible for more dissolved marriages than any other desire. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indigenisation is good, but too often missionaries, in their desire to indigenise the newly-planted churches, rush into appointing men who turn out to be unsuitable.
  • Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran 
  • One reason for the easing in the logjam was the Senate's traditional desire to dispense with blocs of nominees shortly before adjourning for recess, which the Senate did in the early hours of Friday morning. Federal Posts Fill Up Amid Senate Thaw
  • Every soul shall taste of death; 258 and now, O my son, my decease is at hand and I desire to charge thee with a charge, which if thou observe, thou shalt abide in safety and prosperity, till thou meet The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. 
  • I've never had any desire to step into the limelight, so climbing on to the stage felt like mounting a scaffold.
  • His desire to enjoy life while he is still able suggests that rental property may be the wrong investment for him. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even during dry seasons the road maintenance in those areas leaves much to be desired - particularly in the former Venda and Gazankulu and the ANC Daily News Briefing
  • He had never professed love, just a lustful possessive desire that fueled the cruelty in his obsession.
  • There are times of praise, adoration, extolment, when thankfulness is more exuberant, runs over into bursting joy, and times when longing desire carries us into the very bosom of God. The Right Knock A Story
  • Families expressed an increased desire to save but savings rarely increased. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was suddenly overcome with an uncontrollable desire to hit him.
  • With an intellectual's perfectionism, he cannot bring himself to face his desires in real life.
  • The intimacy of the mobile phone creates a similarly fragmented network of communication and desire.
  • It was a book which fulfilled his desire to discover a place seldom visited, and was also to influence this once-aimless student to eventually find a direction, and become a travel writer.
  • Betty is a bundle of nerves, has a well-developed "New-England Conscience," and among other deviative (not degenerative) signs is possessed of an insatiate desire to climb trees. Why Worry?
  • Consequently, when characters share on-screen space, it is almost claustrophobic because of the heavy presence of repressed longings and unspoken desires.
  • She felt an overwhelming desire to return home.
  • Scientists are looking for genetic variation within the breed that would allow producers to choose sires based on the beef tenderness of their progeny and other characteristics.
  • What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
  • We had many family quarrels about it, and they began in time to grow up to a dangerous height; for as I was quite estranged form my husband (as he was called) in affection, so I took no heed to my words, but sometimes gave him language that was provoking; and, in short, strove all I could to bring him to a parting with me, which was what above all things in the world I desired most. Moll Flanders
  • This procedure is a form of critique: the photomontage provides us a critical distance to reflect on what we had been prompted to desire, whether it was a luxury product, an ideal of feminine beauty, a racial superiority, or an entire way of life. Merrill Cole: WikiLeaks and David Wojnarowicz: A Perspective from Berlin
  • Just then Edward handed Doctor Instow a goodly rasher of broiled ham, upon which was a perfectly poached egg; and directly after the man came round behind Jack, and quietly placed before him, with a whisper of warning that the plate was very hot, another rasher of ham, and at the first sight of it the lad began to shrink, but at the second glance, consequent upon a brave desire not to show his repugnance, he saw that it was a different kind of rasher to the doctor's, and that there was no egg. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
  • This led to flirtatious, prolonged seductions and the delicious build-up of anticipation and desire.
  • And that desire to foster a copacetic synthesis between carbon-based life forms and artificial devices can be heard in every blip and digitized beat played.
  • The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill 
  • -- 'Sire, my confessor was my friend; it would be very painful to me.' Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
  • He thought every thing was to be feared from the present state of the affair, and proposed revealing at once all he knew of it to Mr. Tyrold: but Camilla desired him to take no step till she had again expostulated with her sister, who might else be seriously hurt or offended. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the Treatise on the Love of God
  • Then the earle desired that he might put in mainprise, which was granted: and so the earle of Kent, sir Rafe Ferrers, sir Iohn Roch, & sir Iohn Draiton knights, mainprised the said earle bodie for bodie. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
  • They were both burning with desire.
  • I have no desire to cohabit with a hound, however high-bred.
  • Such women are mostly presented as sexless in that once their family is complete, they appear to lose all sexual desire and physical charm.
  • Most significantly for the theme of this book we talk to: Conceal our desires, hide our vulnerability or confusion.
  • We all desire happiness and health.
  • Wadi Turabah in Saudi Arabia is the last place in the Arabian Peninsula where the hammerkop (Scopus umbretta) can be found nesting, and the isolated and distinctive endemic race Pica pica ssp. asirensis is pressent on Shalla ad-Dhana. Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands
  • They were actuated by desire.
  • My first desire was to learn the language of my adopted country as soon as possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill 
  • Two strands of thread are crossed over the desired area and pulled taut, cutting the hairs in perfect symmetry. The Sun
  • Software is complex and dynamic and that 'simple fix' you put in place last week could have undesired consequences.
  • Contentment is the foundation of true happiness. The happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent. RVM 
  • There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige.
  • I owned a bookshop and desired to expand the business.
  • Those few women who shocked public feeling with a display of sexual desire were branded either as prostitutes, nymphomaniacs or lunatics.
  • Tell him you feel used rather than loved and desired for yourself. The Sun
  • That divine spirit whose course is marked with black and white stains, who is the supporter of fire, and who, though free from sin, is the accomplisher of desired karma, whom the wise regard as a great Rishi, is the fire Kapila, the propounder of the Yoga system called The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
  • Feet sounded on the deck, the thud of a heavy rope against the hull, the blare of a siren. HIGH STAND
  • Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it. Wayne Dyer 
  • Joseph said while some people were looking for instant gratification, one had to be willing to invest effort and energy to get the desired results.
  • Other adverse or undesired results of vaccination usually appeared in the first day or so after vaccination.
  • Music and art are an expression of the desire for a world free of injustice and war.
  • He had a strong desire for power.
  • Not that irredentist desires disappeared, only that fewer Frenchmen seemed willing to go to war over the issue in 1914 than in previous years.
  • Desire them to remain with the man, while you go for a cart to carry him home. The Children of the New Forest
  • The desire to cut taxes Governments gain popularity by cutting taxes, not by increasing them.
  • It is not that the themes of modernization and antinomian desire could not be found in these texts, but that neglecting them makes it easier to evade the problem of rhetoric and audience in Blake.
  • Coming as it does in a period when many cash-strapped independent schools face the prospect of mergers or closure, he suggests that the initiative reeks more of marketing than a genuine desire to stimulate debate.
  • Socialists have no desire to isolate ourselves by being killjoys or spoilsports, but it does help if we understand what we are dealing with.
  • ‘Thank you, sire,’ she said in a bow before trailing after the two scouts in silence.
  • One minute they were sworn enemies, the next they were clinging together in fierce mutual desire.
  • The tool has a radiused ridge for cutting and edge sealing with the shape of the ridge similar to the shape desired for the edge seal.
  • I came away with a gladdened heart and a burning desire to lobby the body corporate of my work building to donate an unused display cabinet for similar gallery concept. Unexpected pleasures
  • In the parking lot of the school, the siren filled the air.
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  • Her credibility has lost out to her desperate desire to be liked, even if it is by bull-necked honkers in shirts made of the stars and stripes.
  • The threat did not have its desired effect. THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician
  • Weak carbol fuchsin, neutral red or toluidin blue can also be used to stain the background if desired, after the removal of the paraffin in step 9. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.
  • From her earliest student shorts, repressed sexual desire has been a consistent undercurrent in the New Zealander's work.
  • They argue that grades artificialize the learning process and teach the kids to think in terms of a desired grade instead of in terms of what they might be learning, and that grades also artificialize the nature of the relationship between the teacher and the student, encouraging the student to see the teacher as the dispenser of grades rather than a mentor or interlocutor. Gradewise
  • As a socialized man, we need true riches to satisfy our physical and spiritual desires.
  • I vacillate between the determination to act, to change things, and the desire to retreat into the snuggeries of self, family and friends.
  • Both sides are hinting about innovative arrangements for Jerusalem that satisfy their desire to claim the holy city as their capital.
  • I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long. Select Temperance Tracts
  • People who commit these falsehoods may be people of talent, and, as Goethe says of himself, may have "desire to fabulate. Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
  • She struck up a close friendship with Desiree during the week of rehearsals.
  • Horses need to satisfy their desire for space and freedom.
  • Okay, so the missionary position doesn't always make your mate shiver with desire.
  • Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata
  • The cops came with loud sirens blaring and I just prayed that no one would discover me until the coast was clear and I could get away.
  • a great artiste's rendering of that story of fierce passion and aching desire so brilliantly enacted under the white sunbeat of a country of cloudless skies. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West
  • This in turn is connected with a third and still more distinctive feature of the class of desires we are considering, viz., the way one's attention is focussed on the possibility for action that strikes one as pleasant.
  • Desire kept his head down and held his gait to an ordinary shamble, all to come as close as he could. HAMMERFALL
  • Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the Letter 138
  • Cordelia Carroll had pride, one daughter, and the desire to see the Hereford Carrolls retain some parity with the Charolais Dales.
  • From these values the integrated irradiance values are obtained for the desired time interval.
  • Families expressed an increased desire to save but savings rarely increased. Times, Sunday Times
  • With this view, while the bailiff conducted him to bed in another apartment, he desired the catchpole to act the part of mediator between him and the Count, and furnished him with proper instructions for that purpose. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
  • Every step which led him to the summit of power was prefaced by what he called seeking the Lord; that is, attending sermons and prayers, by which the suborned performers of those profane and solemn farces prepared their congregations to desire what their employers had previously determined to do; thus giving an air of divine inspiration to the projects of fraud, murder, and ambition. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
  • The more detailed tutorials are also online, either by way of a PDF file or on an Apple web site, and while helpful, they leave a lot to be desired.
  • I also appreciate posts which said let's do what Gary woud desire and discuss matter PV. Check for parasites
  • The soap can be tinted or perfumed, if desired, with additives available from the soapmaking section of craft stores.
  • Agrippa, and the rest of his weeping friends earnestly besought him, osculantes obsecrarent ne id quod natura cogeret, ipse acceleraret, not to offer violence to himself, with a settled resolution he desired again they would approve of his good intent, and not seek to dehort him from it: and so constantly died, precesque eorum taciturna sua obstinatione depressit. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Robert, the Casanova of the plains, was in a nicely stirred frenzy of desire and frustration.
  • We know that is pointless to stir a desire for free flight in people if they can't then find instructors to teach them.
  • The chasteberry (also called vitex) fruit was used for centuries to quench sexual desire, particularly in monks.
  • Ah, but voters are fickle and rarely take into consideration the desires of distant princelings (or columnists, for that matter).
  • The highest conception we can form of heaven is the reversal of all the evil of earth, and the completion of its incomplete good: the sinless purity -- the blessed presence of God -- the fulfilment of all desires -- the service which is _blessed_, not toil -- the changelessness which is progress, not stagnation. Expositions of Holy Scripture
  • If one desires to succeed in anything, he must pay the price. 
  • This would be used to fill in a chignon, creating the desired volume of hair.
  • I have recommitted myself to discovering a slower lifestyle -- I do, of course, fully believe in the power of poetry and play -- but the siren song of a highly productive life still calls compellingly to me. Christine Carter, PhD: Borrowing Time for Bliss
  • I have to combat this constant desire to eat chocolate.
  • Excitement raged through me when I spotted the desired CD.
  • Spontaneous, full of life, and unbound by the conventional mores and laws of society, Carmen embodies the heroic defiance of free spirit, desire, and natural instinct over the social rules governing modernity.
  • Until the climax of the sexual erethism, woman is for man the acme of supreme desire; but with detumescence the emotions tend to swing to the opposite pole, and excitement and longing are forgotten in the mood of repugnance and exhaustion. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family
  • From the ardent desire which you have long expressed concerning Stona's marriage, it will, I am convinced, give you pleasure to hear that the nuptials are at last solemnized. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • User selectable switches for setting the desired functional operation of the apparatus and a manually depressible panic button are also provided.
  • On the other hand … happiness, contentedness and serenity fill me with the desire t0 love life and live it to the max … this is best achieved in the real world with real people … and writing about that seems dull by comparison. The pages are still blank « Write Anything
  • The minute division of labour in the production process,and increasing interdependency in trade and economy is evident in the financial crisis afflicting us at the end of this century. Economic activity is no longer purely a matter of production, trade and barter. It is a means to satisfy human desires of every kind. Within it, there is an element of unequal relationship between the strong and the weak.
  • Happiness is the satisfaction of all our desires; extensive, in regard to their multiplicity; intensive, in regard to their degree; and protensive, in regard to their duration. The Critique of Pure Reason
  • Understanding the desires of both the developer and the golfer fuels the creative fire of most golf course architects.
  • Between 1984 and 1987 he personified our inchoate desire to shake free of the Muldoon years and remake ourselves in a bolder, prouder way.
  • He that desires honour is not worthy of honour. 
  • Affects include desires, wishes, a sense of health or debility: They are ideational indicants of bodily thriving or declining.
  • His use of the term "basically altruistic" is surely intended to be provocative, but what the economist means is that terrorists are often acting out of a desire to help others in their group. Are al-Qaida and the Taliban driven by the desire to help others? | Aditya Chakrabortty
  • The sirens screamed even louder as the ambulance had arrived.
  • A popular engraving showed the desired way forward. Earthly Powers: Religion and Politics in Europe from the Enlightenment to the Great War
  • Grazing promotes species diversity, which is desired.
  • As a young boy but not a child repression of sexual desire for the mother has occurred and latency should be present.
  • Della sells her luxuriant hair to buy Jim a chain for his gold watch, while Jim in turn sells his watch to buy a set of tortoise shell combs Della has desired for her hair.
  • Serve with runny honey or maple syrup as desired. The Hayfever Handbook - a summer survival guide
  • I was a kind of hippy kid with long hair and a desire to spend most of my days getting stoned.
  • I would suggest that this cultural fantasy is the symptom of one model for male creativity - the desire to disavow woman's essential Lack by fetishizing an ordinary object.
  • It is obvious that in both federal states an unbridgeable gap exists between the desire of the population for progressive social policies on one hand and the politics of the ASP on the other.
  • When a call comes in huge siren horns mounted on poles around town go off with an ear-splitting, undulating scream.
  • One of the critical innovations is the invention of tweezers for molecular manipulation - the very tool that Primo Levi desired.
  • This made it an object of desire in the homes of the fast-growing bourgeoisie, creating a market greedy for the sheet music of Chopin's compositions that poured into the shops.
  • The problem Austen isolates is what happens when women transform themselves into "objects of male desire" but lack the opportunity to marry: where does the energy go? 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
  • Logically, Youth has re-equipped him for sin and with the disposition to commit it; he will naturally go to the fane which is consecrated to the Fulfillment of Desires, and make arrangements. Following the Equator, Part 6
  • Generally speaking, the denominative connotes the meaning of ‘to be…,’ ‘to work as…,’ ‘to regard as…,’ ‘to desire…,’ but the real emphasis of the word is on the noun.
  • The sense of public outrage is palpable, as is the desire for justice.
  • PARIS — Opening last week, "Un Tramway Nomm é D é sir," a French version of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning "A Streetcar Named Desire," became the first work by an American playwright — or any non-European author — to enter the repertory of the Com é die Fran ç aise, the classic theater company founded by Louis XIV in 1680. French 'Streetcar' Takes a Detour Via Japan
  • Love is often gentle, desire always a rage. Mignon McLaughlin 
  • But when—not the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul, 95 nor he blessed who doth ungodlily, 96 but—a man is praised for some gift which Thou hast given him, and he rejoices more at the praise for himself than that he hath the gift for which he is praised, he also is praised, while Thou dispraisest; and better is he who praised than he who is praised. The Tenth Book
  • The normal human desire to rid one's self of a tormenting secret, to "exteriorize one's rottenness," finds satisfaction on an exalted plane in confession to God, or to his appointed ministers. Human Traits and their Social Significance
  • Padre Amaro, the young saving grace reformer, is in actuality a power mad vacuum, able to use a nubile young woman to satisfy his carnal desires as he finks on those within his order who would do the same.
  • The stronger the desire, the greater the motivation. The stronger the motivation, the greater the achievement. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • What his biggest desire was to buy a ricksha , thinking that if had it he woude not bear anyone's anger. However, this legitimate aspiration became an extravagant hope at that times.
  • Johan Kobborg played Prince Desire with the grandiloquence and hauteur he is so capable of.
  • Somehow, in such situations, we are overwhelmed by a desire to help. Times, Sunday Times
  • The scheme was brought about by the need to replace dying trees and a desire for a comprehensive improvement scheme.
  • Yet this is not all: they are proud still, and therefore they do not seek unto God (Ps.x. 4), or, if they do cry unto him, therefore he does not give answer, for he hears only the desire of the humble (Ps.x. 17) and delivers those by his providence whom he has first by his grace prepared and made fit for deliverance, which we are not if, under humbling afflictions, our hearts remain unhumbled and our pride unmortified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Supper ended Pocahuntas was lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon. The Story of Pocahontas
  • We haven ` t felt it necessary to turn a lot of people into enemy combatants, as we have in this conflict, which is -- and I understand that after 9/11, there was a great desire to -- and I think right now, we should be -- kind of calibrate our responses because I think some of ... CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2005
  • If we do that in the case of Bosnia, it is not so difficult to understand why a middle course of muddling through was originally chosen: it is the response that one would expect from any statesman or stateswoman who had a genuine desire to safeguard humanitarian values but no compelling national interest to become directly involved in a conflict and persuasive prudential reasons to stay out.
  • Fungicides are tools that need to be used appropriately to achieve the desired result.
  • One reason for this may be a desire to protect from criminal liability men whose conduct is not universally regarded as criminal.
  • It's also fair to say that I would nonetheless like a companion to share it with, and that in my more unquiet moments I get annoyed with myself for what seems like a superfluous desire; after all, I don't need a partner to make me happy.
  • For example, alcohol is commonly viewed as an aphrodisiac that increases sexual desire and capacity.
  • You may protect the finish with a liquid furniture wax or cream polish that gives the desired gloss.
  • He increased his feigned ardour for the bushwoman, at the same time increasing the imperiousness of his will of desire over her to be led to look upon the Red One face to face. THE RED ONE
  • The combination of practising painters. ideal facilities, the surrounding landscape and desire for uncompromising inquiry gives Herringbroom Studio its unique spirit.
  • Her resistance only fanned his desire.
  • A desire to take their dinner up to their room is also a tell-tale sign. The Sun
  • Joining a germinal but growing movement, the soldiers represent that war-weariness and a desired return to sanity in the country.

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