"If I claim desire as my right," the central character in Brink's novel asks himself rather awkwardly, "does not my right to desire invoke the right of the other to refuse me?
Ms. McAllister shakes her head, as if amazed to have just claimed that desire as her own.
And while the students claimed to desire liberation from consumer society, many of the workers wanted better access to it.
While many successful candidates claimed a desire to work across the aisle (Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush all said they would), they didn't win because voters had a burning desire for ideological moderation.
Results revealed that while people explicitly claimed to desire creative ideas, they actually associated creative ideas with negative words such as "vomit," "poison" and "agony". Goncalo said this bias caused subjects to reject ideas for new products that were novel and high quality.
Prior to his death, the rapper had claimed a desire to do good, going so far as to announce plans to donate to domestic violence and rape prevention charity organizations. .
In the end, the depths of phenomenal and psychological maleness and male desire that Schorr conveys is withheld from Antin and Piper because the latter by all appearances neither attempt to desire what the male persona she assumes is claiming to desire, nor does she show us his desire (though Piper does write it out for us in her photo documents--which is a cognitive, not a phenomenal, sharing).
This whole process, which is riddled with conflicts of interest, the elements of a type of "media circus," and without the guidance of law enforcement, will likely prevent the very thing that the family claimed it desired -- a new investigation.
Lula can claim her desire, but Clay cannot acknowledge his.
