"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This considerable bloodletting has left her with a single-minded desire for Christian service, which now centers on Bishop Wade.
- Months of confinement in the stockade had dulled his senses, and he hadn't counted on Mary's single-minded desire to escape him.
- Given Joe Saul's (get the name's biblical reference) single-minded desire for a child ("Like a cat on hot rocks"; was Tennessee Williams listening?)
- Darius, who'd sought the perfect statue for three thousand years with such single-minded desire as no mortal could ever comprehend, now was faced with an undeniable truth: Be careful what you wish for.
- In the remarkable flood of giving since Sept. 11, millions of Americans have responded with a single-minded desire to help.
- In their single-minded desire to serve sentence, the torture appalled as well as injured them.
- Of the three brothers' sections, Jason's is the most straightforward, reflecting his single-minded desire for material wealth.
- Faces in many cases filled with fear, or, worse, worshipful devotion to something he could not see, but with eyes that showed little or no thought, just an achingly single-minded desire to please.
- A wave of hatred rushed over him, and he forgot his despair in the single-minded desire to slay the murderous Rider.
- Elliott, the historian, suggested it was available only to those who made it their single-minded desire.
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