(v. t.) Worthy of desire or longing; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(2) Further improvement of results will be possible by early operation, a desirable objective.
(3) This has been accomplished by insertion of a desired gene into a pre-existing immortal cell or by immortalizing primary cells.
(4) The light intensity profile for any desired cell can be examined in "real time", even during acceleration of the rotor.
(5) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(6) It’s not just a matter of will or gumption or desire on my part.
(7) "The pattern of consumption is that among ebook readers there is a desire to pre-order, or get it quickly, so ebook sales are particularly high in the first few weeks," he said.
(8) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
(9) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
(10) Combining drugs may only occasionally be advisable to supplement a desired effect or to attenuate an unwanted one.
(11) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
(12) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
(13) The concept of increasing bone mass and decreasing expanded soft-tissue mass has application within the judgment of the surgeon coupled with the patient's desires.
(14) This new derivative could represent a desirable complementation to rhbFGF for the development of more stable pharmaceutical formulations in wound healing applications.
(15) These concepts of facial harmony and surgical alterations have been difficult to teach in a residency program, especially regarding preoperative evaluation and a clear idea of the desired surgical results.
(16) Subsequent efforts focused on achieving high levels of insecticidal activity while minimizing costs of synthesis and retaining desirable levels of selective toxicity.
(17) The reasons are often financial, but can also be a desire for a change of pace or new experiences.
(18) Noninvasive procedures (such as Holter monitoring or recording of late potentials) are desirable for screening purposes, whereas it would be acceptable to use more aggressive invasive techniques in certain subsets of patients.
(19) KAP studies have demonstrated differences in the family size desires of men and women and in the determinants of attitudes toward birth control.
(20) An accurate description of the coronary anatomy is desired before anatomic correction of d-transposition of the great arteries.
Plummy
Definition:
(a.) Of the nature of a plum; desirable; profitable; advantageous.
Example Sentences:
(1) In November during his appearance before Leveson, Grant referred to the report, in the Mail on Sunday in February 2007, which said his relationship with his then girlfriend, Jemima Khan, was "on the rocks" because of "persistent late-night phone calls with a plummy-voiced executive from Warner Brothers" – a story he said was "completely untrue".
(2) An obscene joke about two highly acclaimed actors – a wildly-bearded Matthew Rhys and an unstoppably plummy Matthew Goode – who’d exploited their star power to get smashed on plonk inside a beautiful Umbrian villa, while getting paid for it.
(3) Switching back into that plummy voice again: "'Yah, you're very, very clever, mate, but there's more to life than being clever.'
(4) He adopts a plummy, censorious voice: "'You've crossed the quad and you've got your hands in your pockets.
(5) Mallya featured in the carrier's in-flight videos, welcoming passengers and boasting in a characteristic plummy drawl of "personally picking" cabin staff and instructing them to treat passengers "as if you were a guest in my own home".
(6) Hartley also said that the Mail on Sunday diary and royal editor Katie Nicholl and a freelance journalist "emphatically denied" they had got the story regarding a plummy-voiced female film executive and Grant from phone hacking.
(7) Grant also referred to a report in the Mail on Sunday in February 2007, which said his relationship with his then girlfriend, Jemima Khan, was "on the rocks" because of "persistent late-night phone calls with a plummy-voiced executive from Warner Brothers" – a story he said was "completely untrue".
(8) Heads of state were charmed by his oddly plummy English vowels – a legacy from his studies at a university in a former hill station beloved of British Raj administrators in India – and his conversation too.
(9) To be frank, he looks like a home counties Tory MP clean out of central casting – middle-aged, chinless, with that blend of plummy vowels and flinty eyes peculiar to posh hardline rightwingers.
(10) Elsewhere, plummy Chummy (Miranda Hart) is becoming most aggrieved at the prospect of having to corral the district's cub scouts.
(11) Some are old or plummy-toned, some have grey hair, some are young and working class, some are anxious suburban commuters.
(12) The trailer for the film – featuring only quizzical grunts and alarmed cries from Paddington rather than Firth's drily plummy tones – was recently released, and features the bear fresh from darkest Peru trying to understand bathrooms and the London Underground system.
(13) David Sherborne, the counsel representing alleged victims of press intrusion at the inquiry including Grant, asked Leveson whether he would be calling the individual journalists – Nicholl and the freelance – who had supplied the plummy voiced story to testify.
(14) Or will Guardians of the Galaxy do for talking trees and anthropomorphic astro-raccoons what The Avengers did for plummy Norse gods and non-jolly green giants?