Sentences with phrase «dominated by the wishes»

This was not just a bureaucratic imperative; it also followed the thinking of progressive educators, who viewed the 19th - century high school as elitist, dominated by the wishes of college officials.

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Time - refugees from a reactionary, regressive and male - dominated future USA, they wished to journey back to the good ol' Puritan days of America when a good witch - burning could solve all society's woes — they just missed by 300 years.

From all these discoveries, each of which plunges him a little deeper into the ocean of energy, the mystic derives an unalloyed delight, and his thirst for them is unquenchable; for he will never feel himself sufficiently dominated by the powers of the earth and the skies to be brought under God's yoke as completely as he would wish.

The educator who tries to dominate or enjoy his pupils «stifles the growth of his blessing,» and it is the same with the doctor and the psychotherapist: «As soon as the helper is touched by the desire, in however subtle a form, to dominate or to enjoy his patient, or to treat the latter's wish to be dominated or enjoyed by him as other than a wrong condition needing to be cured, the danger of falsification arises, beside which all quackery appears peripheral.»

I would not for a minute wish to deny that we are too often motivated by an obsessive desire for power and control, and dominated by a narrow and calculating rationality which can not even acknowledge the deeper values of human life and experience, and that such attitudes may contribute to the coming of one form or another of global catastrophe.

But when the universities are dominated by opponents, wedded to a worldview that censors out what we would wish to teach, it is rather pointless to remain there.

It recognizes that there are elements of wish - fulfillment in most religions, but that healthy religion is not dominated by these elements.

Their strategy has succeeded and so they must confront a part of the United Kingdom dominated by a party that wishes to secede from it.

Almost everyone catches themselves daydreaming with at least moderate frequency, and our daydreams tend to be dominated by imagined futures — the people we secretly want to be and the lives we wish we were living.

They wish to be pampered, taken care of and important of all, never be dominated by anyone.

Perhaps with «Fifty Shades Freed» we've seen the last of the female wish - fulfillment fantasy, a smart young woman being dominated by an S & M craving billionaire whose private jet, unlimited shopping budget, assorted yachts and many swank townhouses, chalets and farms are the secret to his real sex appeal.

Black's 1950s Dublin is a moody, atmospheric place where carthorses mingle with cars, the pubs are fugged up with smoke, girls take tea in hats, and the attitudes of society are dominated by the rigid dogma of the Catholic Church, but times are changing, as epitomized by Phoebe, the restless daughter of Mal and Sarah who is determined to make her own way and marry who she wishes, even if he is a Protestant.

Why, an American might ask, are Koreans so dominated by familial desires, whereas a Korean might ask with equal bewilderment how an American could justify fulfilling a personal dream, even if it meant flouting parental wishes.

«Magical Thinking» explores the supernatural powers and forces which are assigned to many things seen as symbols dominated by the belief that one's own thoughts, wishes or desires can influence the external world.

Facebook has made no secret of its wish to do more in the online recruitment market — encroaching on territory today dominated by LinkedIn, the leader in tapping social networking graphs to boost job - hunting.

Wooden wall panels are ideal for those who wish to usher the warmth of wood into the contemporary dining room that is dominated by stone, concrete and glass.