The childish desires that had come into his head.
He felt a childish desire to break something, bite through nails, swear.
You don't have the patience or understanding to accomplish your childish desires.
He thrust back the childish desire to deny what his eyes had seen, to disregard the evidence of the pictures he himself had taken.
When you travel with a child, you're ruled by childish desires.
"Perhaps it was just a childish desire to be 'grand'," the nice side of him prompted; but his common sense refused it.
It's a well written and quite interesting article, something you've clearly missed in your childish desire to pretend that you know better.
Harriet stayed where she was by the window, fighting a childish desire to burst into tears of disappointment, and what was worse, a growing unease.
He felt a childish desire to wave.
This is not simply a matter of making a claim for this institution, and nor is it a childish desire to be in the limelight.