But they have a conflicting desire, which is to perpetuate their view on the court.
When Wolf finally sees Virginia, he is overcome with deeply conflicted desire.
Its symbol is the veil, a graphic device that conveys the conflicting desire to conceal and reveal.
Willems artfully bridges every parent's conflicting desire for both didactic tales that tell children how to be what you want them to be and down-to-earth stories that reflect them as they really are.
But why criticize a writer — especially one as talented as Bradshaw — who has none of Shanley's post-Catholic sanctimony and who aspires to greatness, even as he reveals his own conflicted desire for and abhorrence of authority?
"Post-Christian" and "nihilist" seem to suit the opera's slim, sketchy story: Boy courts Girl (the only names given); Girl first rebuffs Boy's advances, then embraces them with an unsettling mix of missionary zeal and conflicted desire.
Still, despite, or maybe because of, the reactions, there turned out to be a genuine, if fairly conflicted, desire on the part of the French to affirm the principle of secularism in their public schools.
The mask alters the revelation in a fascinating way, both buffering and intensifying its dreadfulness, creating the conflicting desire to hang on every word while also pulling back to decipher the visual power and artifice of the scene.
And to be honest, this conflicted desire isn't that unusual.
Governments have been warned to try and find a way to cool the market, but there's a conflicting desire to continue real estate's contribution to economic growth.
Yet that wish was always accompanied by a conflicting desire to continue living till the following month, say, for this or that specific reason: to finish writing a book, or be present at a holiday.
