Blade didn't get to sleep for quite a while, because Haima insisted on making love with almost desperate eagerness.

She saw the desperate eagerness in his eyes, like a child waiting for praise.

I had seen the desperate eagerness in the way some people looked at me.

The woman seemed stimulated, for a few moments, to an unnatural strength, and worked with desperate eagerness.

The desperate eagerness in Daemon's eyes tore the veil off the vision.

There was no desperate eagerness, you see, to break into literature, even under those urgent conditions.

He felt a desperate eagerness to work through it, to burn the pain out of his body.

And his desperate eagerness to catch a glimpse of the animal leads to an unfortunate accident.

From his desperate eagerness of the afternoon, Wil could imagine his state of mind by evening.

Misery and a rebellion blunted by a desperate eagerness to be included in the family business are the lietmotifs of Gottfried's youth.