Meanings of thwart desire in English

His thwarted desires of yesterday were the despots of his wits.

Bad behaviour is the result of thwarted desire to do good.

Is not covetousness the thwarted desire of theft without courage?

He was in an agony of thwarted desire.

Wrath springs only from thwarted desires.

My inexperience sent me back again to my solitude, where I dwelt face to face with my thwarted desires.

Descriptions of Roth's writing often err towards violence; he is savagely funny, bitingly honest, filled with rage and thwarted desire.

He sounded the clacker till his arm ached, and at length his heart grew sympathetic with the birds' thwarted desires.

And then his wretchedness gave place to that anger that comes of perpetually thwarted desires....

Then there is his agonised epiphany at understanding the word longing in his thwarted desire for a blonde "shikse".

Technically, High Life is a no-sex-in-space movie, and Denis uses that restriction to explore thwarted desire and loneliness in a crowd.

Every thwarted desire was the signal for a passionate outburst, and as she grew older and stronger, these tempests became more violent.

I hate the Chevalier, hate him with a strong man's hate, the unending hate of wounded vanity, of envy, of thwarted desires.

For Freud, the primary source of frustration from which later development stem is the child's thwarted desire to have sex with its parents.

The restlessness of this thwarted desire is back of much of that social restlessness that puzzles, annoys and angers the better-to-do of the world.

It is not for us, the staid lovers calmed by the possession of a conquered liberty, to condemn without appeal the fierceness of thwarted desire.