Example Sentences

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As a heroine, Carol is sensationally uncharismatic: thin-voiced, remote, desireless, a stranger to herself.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019

There is no feeling of I, and yet the mind works, desireless, free from restlessness, objectless, bodiless.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

There was quiet friendliness deep in his calm, desireless eyes.

From Son of Power by Comfort, Will Levington

I am sure that Heaven must be very much like that—pure, desireless, contemplative.'

From Muslin by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Ever desireless one can see the mystery Ever desiring one can see the manifestations.

From The Mantooth by Leadem, Christopher