"deepest desires" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it when discussing a person's most strongly held wishes or ambitions. For example: "What are your deepest desires in life?".
Rather, it's the expression of his deepest desires.
"Let's just say I can feel a woman's deepest desires.
Until "Downton Abbey," I never realized how many of my deepest desires involved ironing.
But this wasn't a dress: It was the fulfillment of my deepest desires, in wool.
Sirena seems to embody all Nora's deepest desires, and Nora becomes increasingly and destructively enmeshed in her life.
They can only do what you have allowed them, responding, those men, to some of your deepest desires.
When he first meets Dorian Gray, he senses that the boy is a stranger to himself, to his deepest desires.
It's nearly impossible to detangle personal preference from social conditioning, our deepest desires from the codes we have been taught to follow.
Dyer watches himself watching "Stalker," Andrei Tarkovsky's Soviet-era cinematic masterpiece, and contemplates his own deepest desires in this vivid evocation.
He is a wonder to kids and parents alike, with a mysterious knack for intuiting a child's deepest desires and recalling details about their lives.
I don't claim to know the deepest desires of insects that visit our gardens and farms, except that they want to survive, eat and reproduce.
