"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Sometimes a musician has such an inborn desire to communicate that her message naturally becomes universal: it doesn't matter whether she is singing soul or bel canto or folk.
- Researchers generally agree that an inborn desire for sweetness begins at birth.
- The theory states that taste in art is 'an acquired preference for particular methods of satisfying inborn desires.'
- I believe that most men have an inborn desire to hunt and kill and that even today this primitive urge has only been eradicated in a small minority of the human race.
- The gist is that a seemingly inborn desire on the part of Homo sapiens for coherent narratives, for meaning, often warps the way we remember things.
- We are all ruled, he says, by two principles: one is our inborn desire for pleasure, and the other is our acquired judgment that pursues what is best (237d).
- I wouldn't want to throw away a chance to make money simply to satisfy my inborn desire to cut the throat of a Gnome when I get one within my grasp.
- The reason, he states, with strong sociological-sound arguments, is that the purpose of wrestling is to serve vicariously for the inborn desires of manhood.
- I listened with some interest as the major, despite his inborn desire to talk and not listen, finally elicited the same information that I had.
- He was the creature of an inborn desire.
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