Rustling leaves, splashing water and bird song are all desirable elements.

They seem completely incapable of listing desirable elements of a place unless you actually point it out yourself.

The composition has been characterized as a "grotesque potpourri", an assemblage of elements desirable because they represent the country villa lifestyle.

In the eyes of the city beholder, animals roaming a farmscape may seem a desirable decorative element - like a Biedermeier chair.

It is neither fully capitalistic or socialistic, and attempts to merge the most desirable elements of both systems.

And he severed ties with the less...desirable elements of his youth.

It might have been one of the past endeavors, and one of those less desirable elements, that's responsible for what happened to him.

"Third, it would allow us to rid ourselves of some of the less desirable elements on the team."

While most choreographers might agree on a few desirable elements in a musical score, disagreements abound about which musical choices are truly inspiring or, conversely, wholly unacceptable.

Italians were "content to live in a pig-sty," he wrote, while the Chinese were "in no sense a desirable element of the population."