My mother fiercely desired her children's success, but never quite believed in it.
It isn't that critics actually believe what they see, but that they fiercely desire to do so.
Little by little, it transpires that the queen has been working on a dangerous discovery, fiercely desired by powerful forces in and outside the kingdom, and has disappeared to keep it out of enemy hands.
Hadley takes a hard look at men: they may be "the enemy" (literally in the story of that name), but they are also wonderfully understood and very fiercely desired.
And the UK and Dutch governments' fiercely desired, but missing, link of an onerous sovereign guarantee is still.... missing!
Gaining admission to medical school is highly competitive: pre-medical education has been described as "a series of obstacles to be overcome on the way to the elusive goal of medical school admission" [ 19], with applicants possessing "a fiercely contentious desire to prevail over others, and at all costs get into this or that or any medical school" [ 25].
Austin's reductionist account of the normativity of law, maintaining that the normative aspect of law simply consists in the subjects' desire to avoid sanctions, was discussed extensively, and fiercely criticized, by H.L.A. Hart.
Australia has been fiercely resisting climate change discussions at the summit and does not want it distracting from its desired focus on "economic growth and jobs".
In a flurry of recent interviews and speeches, she has highlighted qualities that her friends enthusiastically describe and her enemies fiercely doubt: humility, a desire to hear all sides, a leadership instinct for reaching out and building consensus and compromising when necessary.
His other main philosophical plank, another bit of wisdom he picked up around the department store, is that the people of South Carolina are a fiercely independent bunch with no desire to have someone else telling them how to lead their lives.
