desirousness

For the temptation to skip ahead to read about sex, to thumb the pages to get to the titillating content, suggests that, subconsciously, you had said yes to a subtle siren, like a far-off clarinet in a forest, communicating with and playing on your desirousness.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

For the temptation to skip ahead to read about sex, to thumb the pages to get to the titillating content, suggests that, subconsciously, you had said yes to a subtle siren, like a far-off clarinet in a forest, communicating with and playing on your desirousness.

BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

Simply put, like whoever posted the diatribe "Traitors to Democracy, Traitors to America, Enemies of Democracy," you show your kinship to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; desirousness of murdering, oops, I should say liberating with extreme prejudice those who are "contumacious" of your socialist/fascist agenda.

Wishing Limbaugh Dead except for the Sarah Factor 2009

As a rule, life reality, if faced, provides plenty of occasions for the calcinatio of frustrated desirousness ... when denied, it becomes enraged.

Boing Boing 2007

The necessary frustration of desirousness or concupiscence is the chief feature of the calcinatio stage.

Boing Boing 2007

There is the profound desirousness of the lower center of sympathy, and the superior avidity of the center of will, and at the same time, the cleaving yearning to the nipple, and the tiny curiosity of lips and gums.

Fantasia of the Unconscious 1907

The sociologist Daniel Bell has often talked about the "cultural contradictions of capitalism": where industry demands both a docile producer, and a hedonistic consumer, and is perplexed when the desirousness of the second identity saps the duteousness of the first.

The Play Ethic pat kane 2009