The phrase "desperately desired" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is strongly wanted or longed for. Example: She had been desperately desiring a vacation for months, but her busy work schedule never allowed it.
Then, without any discernible change in his demeanor, Steinbrenner whipped out a piece of paper and began outlining the offer Wells desperately desired.
A university degree, together with the knowledge of one or more foreign languages, were considered the minimum qualifications for a society which desperately desired to prove that it wasn't the "poor relative" of Europe.
And in a way, even that make sense: If the market apparently cannot be counted on to follow rational market dynamics, certainly families, the messiest, most emotionally driven, desperately desired units of human interaction, can't either.
From his stories and essays, most explicitly the Kenyon College commencement speech, he clearly believed it had to be a crucial component of the adult sanity he so desperately desired and, for a long while, achieved.
The idea, as I understood it at the time, was that even though it would be a sin to pick up a pretty girl at the church dance and drive her to the dark abandoned chicken farm known as "the coop" where we Mormon kids held our makeout sessions, I should nevertheless feel grateful for the fact that I desperately desired to do so.
But the forgotten trunks and suitcases found in an attic at the abandoned Willard Psychiatric Center in the Finger Lakes region of New York represent the opposite: how the door to a desperately desired reality was closed to virtually all its patients.
Does it say something horrible about us that we desperately desire to see Chelsea's wedding?
After all, the subprime crisis also threatens the economic recovery that Japan desperately desires.
But there are no promotions I'm seeking, no honors I desperately desire that I don't already have.
"We desperately desire the chance to go through to the next round but also we must take into consideration the game with Manchester City.
Osborne and the cabinet (or, at least, most members of it) may desperately desire a rapid sale but there are several hurdles to clear yet.
