"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It had taken much to accustom himself to the way she spoke of their secret bodily desires.
- The hands, the tongue, the eyes, the heart, all the bodily desires we are commanded to sub- due; but the feet are free members.
- Pledgers promise to control intense bodily desires simply by exercising their wills.
- Part of him wishes to give in to bodily desires, while the other part of him wants to be rational.
- The Geto-Dacians communicated with their god through meditation, ritual sacrifice and shunning bodily desires.
- The medieval church was unnatural in its efforts to suppress bodily desires.
- To "transcend bodily desires," Armande chose a life of the mind.
- Pythagoras emphasized subduing emotions and bodily desires in order to enable the intellect to function at the higher plane of theory.
- Her ambition in life was opposed to marriage, yet she had the same bodily desires as every other woman.
- The intellect could never be brought into a harmony based on reason with bodily desires.
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