The phrase "hidden desire" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a deep longing or craving that is not easily visible or known to others. Example: She often caught herself daydreaming about traveling the world, but her hidden desire for adventure remained unspoken.
... the general tendency for men [is] to buy their socks too large, in dicating a hidden desire for longer, more potent feet.
"I don't care for gold," notes Smith again on Leave Your Lover, where Smith sets out his stall to the object of his hitherto hidden desire.
But in fiction, a situation so open to complication provides the novelist with the perfect opportunity to run riot through themes of rivalry, jealousy, class tension and hidden desire; and Morrison does not shirk that opportunity.
While this debate goes on, it is hard not to think that Bennett in writing it was also turning over this question in his own mind, and wondering why it took him until his 60s to say openly that he had a partner "Why," Auden subsequently wonders of Britten in 1972, about the hidden desire in his music, "are you still sending your messages in code?
In other words, in order to boost our self-esteem, we have a hidden desire to hold at least one power-driven relationship in our life.
The Kapalua is no different and, unlike resorts located in the Third World, you don't get the feeling that behind the locals' forced smiles are years of economic repression and a hidden desire to run you through with a spear.
It is also true that a number of men with similarly suppressed or hidden desires, including James, were among his close circle of friends.
As Mr. Baldwin pointed out, Hitchcock was deeply serious about music in his films, recognizing its power to express characters' hidden desires and weaving it into a movie so skillfully that it became "ingrained in the visual fabric".
Stolen Love Behaviour by John Stammers 120pp, Picador, £8.99 John Stammers's impressive second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour, focuses, like its predecessor, on love poetry, but this time the mood is darker, more burdened; here, as the title implies, we enter the realm of subversive affairs, hidden desires.
Framing achievement as something to be pursued alongside and in parallel to one's growth can help the most driven of leaders keep an eye on the bigger picture and to think about the values and hidden desires underpinning what they are pursuing.
Someone should remind Merkel that, despite her perhaps hidden desires, the EU is not synonymous with Europe.
