"desire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A contorted metaphor for adolescent sexual desire, perhaps?
- B. D. Wong recognizes her almost adolescent desire not to have to take charge but says he has been encouraging her to do so when necessary.
- Ryman sees too much of regular science fiction being based on an "adolescent desire to run away from our world."
- (She attains, at least in part, her adolescent desire for "not happiness but joy.")
- Were these boys the same as he had been, fired with an adolescent desire really to reform the world, as little to be taken seriously?
- I think contrariness should always come from a genuine place, rather than just an adolescent desire to be the odd one out.
- - say that forces larger than adolescent desire are at work.
- She provides a perfect focus for all of the ambiguity of adolescent male desire, with its sad blend of longing and resentment.
- I had a sudden adolescent desire to shatter that.
- It casts doubt on the idea of ruling desire - that is, of the lifelong predominance of childhood or adolescent or young-adult desire.
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