The drives are the partial manifestations of a single force called desire.

Strain in people is called desire.

Neither motherhood nor a good marriage can erase the knowledge of what desire - or what I called desire - once drove me to do.

He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity; it was a central aspect of his art.

Regarded physiologically the effort is called appetite; when we are conscious of it, it is called desire.

This uneasiness we may call, as it is, desire; which is an uneasiness of the mind for want of some absent good.

She refused to call it desire.

The students were particularly turned off by prospects who exhibited what the researchers call "unselective romantic desire."

The love sits in hell alone Fondling the devil that men call desire.

What we might reflectively or abstractly call their belief or desire is expressed directly in their actions and behaviors.