The desire still lingers today.
Many believe the generals' promise that they have no desire to linger in politics.
Our guide, an elderly man, was impatient at our desire to linger, so we headed up the stone path that led through the ruins.
Most commentators reckoned that the real reason for Mr Chrétien's desire to linger so long was to lessen the chance that he would be succeeded by Paul Martin, his former finance minister and long-time rival.
You need serve nothing alongside, but sometimes it is good to stretch a meal, not so much because more sustenance is needed, but out of the simple desire to linger pleasurably at the table.
Our train-rattled bones and our desire to linger in the BAM's wilderness a bit more before the rail line rejoined the Trans-Siberian a day's journey west compelled us to debark and try one of the legendary hot springs surrounding Severobaikalsk.
Intense, salty Roquefort, rich St.-André and tangy, creamy Boucheron -- like nearly everything else on this menu, they go beautifully together, leaving you with a powerful desire to linger, keep tasting and return to find out what other pleasures this smart, talented chef can come up with.
Freud would come to identify the work of the psychoanalyst with that of the archaeologist, excavating away the layers of the conscious mind to find the ruined palaces and streets on which our mental lives are ultimately founded: the buried traces of memories and desires that linger on in our psychic lives.
The film's most powerful scene is the quietly fraught reunion of these once secret lovers, whose wary body language conveys volumes of grief, resentment and lingering desire.
Roger Allam is extraordinary in suggesting the shame, fear and lingering desire of a middle-aged man who has earnestly tried to reinvent himself.
