But upon my soul I feel the most desperate desire to know the end of it all.

He has the desperate desire to find someone or something to believe in.

Now he had no possible excuse for hope, even if all his most desperate desires were met.

Finally I realized what brought these people together was a desperate desire to own certain plants.

He was suddenly possessed by a desperate desire to examine the fish, to see if they were all right.

Were you acting from your inner Child's desperate desire for love?

Ambitions faded and died in the face of more desperate desires.

I have no desperate desire to come back to planet Earth.

And an almost equally desperate desire to keep the crew from harm.

Americans do have a desperate desire to get at real things.