From the depths of Gillian's consciousness, Empedoclesprojected his blessing; soothing thoughts poured across a waterfall of endless desire.

Professions that attend to New Yorkers' vanity and seemingly endless desire for pampering, for example, do relatively well.

I was tormented by endless desire.

So now the grey robes preferred more subtle, cowardly skirmishes in their endless desire for a universe where nothing happened that was not completely predictable.

Michael Hirschorn, associate editor at Esquire, said: "It's encoded in our gene pool, this endless desire to schmooze with other journalists, to navel gaze.

Since the introduction of the original I.B.M. PC, Intel had been able to ride computer users' endless desire for more processing power.

Like Portnoy, he is afflicted with "endless" desires that often take the form of "acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus."

Throughout my childhood, every Christmas, while endless desires burgeoned around everyone else, my grandfather wanted only two things: a bowl of oyster soup and an orange.

The genius lies in the endless human desire to improve.