Sentences with phrase «physical appetite»
sometimes the seat of physical appetite — «our nephesh loatheth this light bread»; (Numbers 21:5.)
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We may have physical appetites for food and sex and rest and emotional appetites for status and power, but there is something in the pattern that encourages us in another direction, that encourages us to breach the walls, that pulls us to love.
They say that recreational sex is only play that is not significantly different from expressing other physical appetites, like eating or drinking.
Desire is here to be understood not merely as physical appetite, but as a total positive response involving «mental» and «spiritual» as well as physiological components.
How to control appetite when it's mental («I want to eat») is a bit more difficult than controlling physical appetite.
«That our sexual instinct is human as well as animal simply means that sexual union between man and woman has a much deeper meaning than the simple satisfaction of a physical appetite.»
It is true that many people give this primacy to such things as comfort and security, to their physical appetites or to a desire for pleasure, fame and fortune.
Our physical appetites can be abused.
And finally, a retired werewolf, misdiagnosed with a rare blood disorder brought on by the bite of a Mexican hummingbird, attempts to lead a normal life but is nevertheless plagued by hazy, feverish episodes of epic lust, physical appetite, athletic exertions, and outbursts of violence under the full moon.
Despite the degradation of his and his people's suffering, his story reminds us - especially those of us in the West whose intellectual and physical appetites have been deadened by plenty - that being human is a constant striving for the possible and the wonderful.