The phrase "a pattern of desire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a recurring theme or trend related to human desires or wants in various contexts, such as psychology, literature, or sociology.
Example: "In her novel, the author explores a pattern of desire that drives the characters to make irrational choices."
Alternatives: "a trend of longing" or "a motif of craving".
Remember, sexual orientation is a pattern of desire, not of behaviour or sexual acts per se.
To the extent that someone has predominantly such a pattern of desire and emotion, it would seem on this view that sensory pain (or, as Helm has it, the stimulation that would otherwise have been painful) must, as signaling the approach of the desired end, be if not purely then at least on balance pleasant.
He has a pattern of desiring women who are unwilling or unable to see that he won't change.
This leads her to probe, with keen moral intelligence, the forces that have led to her predicament — a pattern of desires that span continents, oceans, and kidney-shaped pools, and which have entangled the people she loves for most of an American century.
Founding, the process of pouring molten metal into a cavity that has been molded according to a pattern of the desired shape.
The unfettered globalisation of capital annexed more parts of the world into a uniform pattern of desire and consumption.
But most scientists researching gay evolution are interested in an ongoing, internal pattern of desire rather than whether people identify as gay or straight or how often people have gay sex.
Rather, the intimacy of friendship should be understood partly in terms of the friends forming a "plural agent": a group of people who have joint cares a joint evaluative perspective which he analyzes primarily in terms of a pattern of interpersonally connected emotions, desires, judgments, and (shared) actions.
At this point, I believe Trump's outlandish comments are really a pattern of self-immolation and a desire to extricate himself from the race.
Someone observes a pattern of behaving, thinking, feeling, or desiring that deviates from some social norm or ideal or identifies a human weakness or imperfection that, as expected, is displayed with greater frequency or severity by some people than others.
The rally enacts the basic pattern of desire, the players pressing with "stroke after stroke" before building to the "final unanswerable shot".
