(v. t.) To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
(v. t.) To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
(v. t.) To require; to demand; to claim.
(v. t.) To miss; to regret.
(v. t.) The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.
(v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.
(v. t.) Anything which is desired; an object of longing.
(v. t.) Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.
(v. t.) Grief; regret.
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.
Nymphomaniac
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
(2) Someone who disrespects you like that.” On his website, Habré called Zidane a “nymphomaniac prostitute” after hearing her testimony.
(3) Two days later, with the snow falling hard, I trudge across town to Nymphomaniac's base camp.
(4) The Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf has been performing a series of bold and strange public performances in recent weeks, from hiring a skywriter to apologise to a writer he plagiarised to wearing a paper bag on his head to the premiere of Nymphomaniac , the Lars Von Trier film he stars in.
(5) Nymphomaniac was shown to the press at a private preview, where it clocked in at four hours long.
(6) The cinema version of Lars Von Trier's new film Nymphomaniac may be a draining four hours long, and split into two halves for its release, but the full uncut film extends to a truly marathon five and a half hours.
(7) Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg as the "nymphomaniac" of the title (the character makes it clear she prefers the term to the less outdated "sex addict"), the film follows the sexual history of the character from her earliest experiences onwards.
(8) It is surely no accident that Nymphomaniac breaks off at intervals to rail against a stifling culture of political correctness.
(9) The extended edition of Lars von Trier's controversial new film Nymphomaniac was unveiled at the Berlin film festival, accompanied by the kind of press-baiting shenanigans that equalled, if not topped, those that followed the debut of Von Trier's last film, Melancholia.
(10) However, in the last five years, things have drastically changed; films such as Nymphomaniac and Shame and television shows like Girls and This Is England have endeavoured to tell certain (often ugly) truths about sexual behaviour.
(11) On the one hand, she was burned and banned, her mother mortified and embarrassed by it, and dismissed by LP Hartley on television as writing about nymphomaniacs.
(12) "I hope my children won't be too embarrassed [by Nymphomaniac].
(13) It is perplexing, preposterous and utterly fascinating... To blunder in on Nymphomaniac is to catch the sight of a middle-aged Dane masturbating alone in a darkened room.
(14) His next project, The Nymphomaniac , is set to become the first film to feature both Shia LaBeouf and graphic scenes of unsimulated sex.
(15) Charlotte Gainsbourg and Stellan Skarsgård in Nymphomaniac.
(16) Perhaps most surprising is news that the four-hour Nymphomaniac is billed as the "abridged and censored" version.
(17) Elsewhere, the organisers will screen the unabridged director's cut of Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac.
(18) Nymphomaniac stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe, who recounts her life story to a chaste, lonely bachelor named Seligman, played by Stellan Skarsgård.
(19) Body doubles – Paou calls them "stunt doubles" – were brought in for the explicit scenes, but unlike in Nymphomaniac , they were regular actors, not porn performers.
(20) LaBeouf meanwhile can currently be seen in Nymphomaniac, and recently completed Fury, a war drama co-starring Brad Pitt.