desire
Usage
Example Sentences
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“It isn’t easy, no one is saying that it will be 100% right away, but nevertheless, we must bring the desired result closer with every such meeting, every such conversation.”
The book is about the dangers of monstrous appetites but also about the melancholy of unrealized desires.
If anything makes us specifically human animals, she suggests, it’s the desire not to be the other kind.
And he certainly has the talent, desire and ambition to do so.
From Los Angeles Times
Too much time spent on Marty’s mother or his fierce opponent would distract from the film’s momentum, reducing it to simply a sports movie, and not a conclusive treatise on the cruelty of desire.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
