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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a simple desire" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express a straightforward or uncomplicated wish or longing for something.
Example: "Her decision to travel was driven by a simple desire to explore new cultures."
Alternatives: "a basic wish" or "an uncomplicated longing."
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A simple desire, an enormous undertaking.
First it was a simple desire to tell stories.
"Teens are looking to the present and the future with a simple desire to fit in".
Gail: These days, attempts to disenfranchise minority voters are often based on a simple desire to reduce Democratic turnout.
The first, as one diplomat puts it, is a simple desire to "stop Saddam getting away with it".
Every MP I know, of all political persuasions, got involved in politics with a simple desire to do good.
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The character of Elif, daughter of the local imam, stepped out of the dark faceless, but driven by a single, simple desire – to be allowed to wear jeans in a world where other women were made to wear shalwars.
The duel of purposeful young ambition and and malicious aged recalcitrance cedes to a blindingly simple desire.
Fundamentally, Lambert's drive is rooted in a strong yet simple desire to express beauty.
Wanting a banana - simple desire itself - was itself enough to set the wheel of "mine" in motion.
Imagine: Two decades of faultless cab-driving, erased in an instant by the simple desire to see a woman piss in a car.
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