"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He fought an irrational desire to turn around and walk rapidly back the way he had come.
- We can't not know that some expressions of order are motivated by thoroughly irrational desires for control.
- She had to restrain an irrational desire to laugh.
- At which point she was almost overcome by an irrational desire to cancel the whole event.
- We arrive at moral rules by extending these objects of irrational desire to others.
- He had an irrational desire to thank her.
- Schmidt simply claimed an irrational desire to dig through the mountain to prevent others from moving in on his find.
- Lust is an irrational desire, or pursuit of an expected good.
- Paul had an irrational desire to slam the handset down and go back to sleep beside his wife.
- He dropped himself on the couch, stifling an irrational desire to look under the cushions.
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