Sentence examples for did desire from inspiring English sources
Secular cantatas tended for the most part to rely on solo voices, and when the chorus does make its appearance it sometimes consists only of three-part writing, as in Purcell's setting of Abraham Cowley's poem "If ever I more riches did desire".
But the young don't look out of those windows; they are fixated on screens the size of their palms, which open on to a Facebook page where, in a parody of what the movies once did, desire is converted "into a fee payment and a surrender to ads".
Although John Addams was no advocate of feminism, he did desire higher education for his daughter and sent her to the all-women's institution, Rockford Seminary (renamed later, Rockford College) in Rockford, Illinois.
The Humean might argue that the law school drop-out in fact did desire to become a lawyer, or at least to enroll in law school; she simply didn't understand what studying law would be like.
Although she did not advocate a totally equal distribution of wealth, she did desire one that was more equitable.
In the end, van Gogh's letters imply that the artist did desire to revive subtle religious symbolism.
Jack urges Bradley to tell the police what he did, desiring to keep Ronnie out of trouble.
Where does desire come from?
These stories may seem extreme, but at what point does desire go from acceptable to perverse?
"Why does desire fade at the prospect of eternity?" he asks about Odysseus' seduction by Kalypso.
