Sentences with phrase «excessive desire»

Imposing school - wide behavioral standards is often negated by students» excessive desire for self - expression and resistance to authority.

As Jesus used lust in a broad sense to mean any excessive desire, Paul, too, describes lust as a darkness of mind that can lead to lasciviousness, impurity, or greed.

Sugar craving is an excessive desire to eat sugary foods.

Greed is something we are all familiar with; it is the excessive desire for money and wealth (or other things).

The struggle is made harder because of its excessive desire for realism.

This inability to trust leads children with an attachment impairment to display an excessive desire to control others and their environment.