A cloud of fear hangs over the neighborhood, a fear that Red Hook — a place of pioneers and craftspeople who were artisanal before the word went mainstream, and who rewarded people who ventured to the neighborhood with great food, drinks and song — had lost some of its desirability because of the storm.
Then it uses that pattern to create a perception of flavor, including an evaluation of its desirability.
Egypt is the best country for land use policy and agricultural water management because its desirability of condition (99%%) is more than all the countries in Africa.
The edibility of Coprinopsis variegata has not been clearly established, and opinions differ as to its desirability.
That the grownup life exemplified by Carson was in large part phony (one discovered upon reaching it), a construct of television entertainment itself, simply added to its desirability.
They equate the number of bids an item has with its desirability.
In another, very different part of the globe, Amsterdam's popularity stems from its desirability as a river cruise port.
Not all considerations in favor of desiring something manifest its desirability; for instance, incentives and sanctions attached to desire do not.
After the American Revolution, brickmaking became important, and the opening of the Middlesex Canal (1803), which passed through Somerville, added to its desirability as an industrial site.
A weight can be assigned to each goal to adjust the shape of its particular desirability function.
