"conflicting desires" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to two or more desires or wants that are in opposition or conflict with each other. Example: "Samantha's conflicting desires made it difficult for her to make a decision. On one hand, she wanted to stay in her hometown with her family, but on the other hand, she longed for adventure and travel."
When texting or e-mailing from a phone, I have conflicting desires.
David Kaczynski's anguished odyssey was guided by conflicting desires, to stop the Unabomber from harming anyone else, and to disprove what his intuition was telling him.
Yoli yearns to keep her sister alive while knowing she wants to die, in a novel that tackles our conflicting desires for life and death.
Arthur and the knights of the Round Table are so many boys grown into manhood, seething with ambitions, conflicting desires, strong emotions and barely recognised motives.
Mr. Brown bears the weight of his fans' conflicting desires for go-go to continue as a black thing and a D.C. thing even if gains national acclaim.
That film's hard-core scenes created a scandal that obscured its troubling vision of sexual power struggles and conflicting desires for security and sexual autonomy.
These conflicting desires may be reflected in tensions within the center-right coalition that Mr. Sharon has led for the last five months.
He believes that for a product truly to capture the imagination of the masses it must have a "paradoxical essence" -- it must promise to satisfy two conflicting desires.
How do the claims of justice go along with the realities of passions and conflicting, the collision of conflicting desires, conflicting parties and so on?
But all three figures also can be said to personify aspects of the artist himself: his often irreconcilably conflicting desires for freedom, honor and material rewards.
Towns are more valuable.Torn between conflicting desires to appear in control of the calamity and blameless for the suffering, other ministers blathered.
