Larkin's poem, written about his friend Winifred Arnott, sees the lost maiden name as a symbol of the erasure of a woman's youthful and sexually desirable self, now swallowed up in domestic duties and motherhood.
The highly desirable "Ooh, I could live here" reaction is identified as "the Barcelona effect".
For at least two centuries the handloom weavers of Bengal produced some of the world's most desirable fabrics, especially the fine muslins, light as "woven air", that were in such demand for dressmaking and so cheap that Britain's own cloth manufacturers conspired to cut off the fingers of Bengali weavers and break their looms.
Does being an MP make you desirable for other lines of work?
(There is a consensus within parliament that the universal credit is desirable, so there little real debate on the merits of the scheme. In fact his original shadow opponent, Liam Byrne, was said to share his views of welfare reform).
If you could have told me that, come the 1990s, there'd be Kurt Cobain and then Hedi Slimane, and the desirable shape for a man would change overnight from triangle to stick, I'd have been delighted.
If this is indeed "honourable", then I'll… well, I'll just carry on being totally bemused by how far Ukip has managed to push the concept of honour down the pecking order of desirable traits among politicians.
The fact is that this review was open to anybody to contribute, yet the overwhelming evidence received strongly supported the UK remaining in the EU and that an attempt to radically rewrite the treaties is neither achievable nor desirable".
Barrett said there had been a lack of communication with currently serving female defence force members about the career opportunities available and which aspects of them were desirable and important for women.
We should also be able to agree that savage satire of politicians is inevitable and even desirable in a free press.
Many of Mumbai's poorest neighbourhoods could become functional and even desirable with a little support from the authorities.
