The phrase "addressing a desire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of acknowledging or responding to someone's wants or needs.
Example: "The therapist focused on addressing a desire for personal growth during the session."
Alternatives: "responding to a need" or "fulfilling a wish".
Whether lines through bus routes or into the lives of others, developers are addressing a desire for connection, not just to other humans but to the places we live.
REACH legislation requires industry to provide information necessary for adequate evaluations of public health risks in response to concerns related to approximately 120,000 chemicals in European commerce, addressing a desire for increased assessment efficiencies and a reduced reliance on in vivo animal testing.
I picked up the book because I suspected it would help address a desire I've been having lately, to lie down for hours in a hot secluded garden, crushing flower petals under my skin.
Officials involved in developing the campaign said that the advertisements would portray working in the city schools as both a professional challenge and a public service, and that they would address a desire by potential candidates to be courted by the school system and invited in.
This addresses a strong desire in the astronomical community for immediate posting of interesting new transient objects, to solicit confirming observations (and thus to provide a place to post confirming observations, to help prevent potentially unnecessary observations at multiple observatories).
The product's many swappable covers address a consumer desire for smart speakers that better blend into their environment, but, well, at least the company is offering the Plus in white and silver along with the original black.
Henderson, 6 feet 1 and 201 pounds, addresses a desire by the Jets to get bigger at cornerback, where the starter Aaron Glenn and nickel back Ray Mickens are under 5-10.
The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11.
Yet far from being a "technical" triumph, the claustrophobic aesthetic that Nemes employs has a powerful moral raison d'etre, seemingly born out of a desire to address a subject that arguably has no place in dramatic cinema.
One interviewed participant elaborated on the rationale of the peer educators' desire to address a "younger audience" with comments such as "we are chipping around the edges.....we have to get to the younger audience to actually prevent people that start to fall, at 60 or 60ish" (Participant 1).
Selfie slide shows are (with subjects' permission) displayed on large screens in test stores, thus addressing Flourishers' desire to "feel a sense of belonging". Research indicates that the segment has responded to this motivator and increased purchase intent.
