Each began to desire the other's death, to long to breathe singly in a twinless world.
And so the man begins to desire other things", which the island can bestow, such as a wife who will "give and receive pleasure".
In these situations man begins to desire that which in fact he perhaps does not need at all — he simply persuades himself he has certain needs which he does not have — or he vaguely desires something which he cannot specify and thus cannot strive for — full stop.
Hamilton continued clerking, but he remained an avid reader, later developing an interest in writing, and began to desire a life outside the small island where he lived.
I became attracted to ideologies involving seeking to regain the supremacy that Muslims had once possessed, and I began to desire martyrdom in the battlefield.
The sad, serious joke of "The Country Teacher" is that the tender love and care Petr lavishes can't begin to kindle desire in a young, straight teenager who is entirely unaware of Petr's true feelings.
Cooling might take the edge off the peak of a planetary fever, or perhaps buy time as emissions cuts begin to have the desired effects.
"The problem is, you might begin to attribute your desire to maintain the relationship not to your partner, but to this substance," Bartz says.
Only when the priest encounters the groom's brother in the bathroom, drunkenly struggling to stuff himself back into rented trousers, do we begin to suspect that desire is the source of the priest's heightened sensitivity.
