desire

Those who come to the Dinner Party are self-selecting; they do want to talk about it.

With every allusion that Ramona made to the saints' statues, Alessandro's desire to procure one for her deepened.

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.

As Perker said this, he looked towards the door, with an evident desire to render the leave-taking as brief as possible.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.