All that interested me at the time was the boy playing Hiawatha, which made me desperate to play Minnehaha.
At any rate, Messud's feisty response has made me desperate to read The Woman Upstairs, and find out for myself what makes Nora such a challenging companion.
This can occasionally be OK – if there's enough relationship intrigue of the betrayal-and-adultery ilk – but generally I prefer novels that make me desperate to find out who did what and why.
I was not as overcome by that movie as I was supposed to be, or as many others were, but the spectacle of Tarkovsky patiently planning its climactic sequence made me desperate to see it again.
No, that does not make me desperate.
Five emotional impact statements ("my complaints made me desperate", "my complaints felt like a drama", "I was very concerned about my complaints", "I was very frightened about my complaints", and "I was very depressed about my complaints") were presented with response categories 0 = never, 1 = rarely, 2 = sometimes, and 3 = often.
Suddenly there's no time left, and it makes me feel desperate.
Next time I'm opening my mouth, because this just makes me feel desperate.
"But I don't really like talking about it anymore, because it feels like a thousand lifetimes ago, and also it makes me look desperate, like I need it for attention".
The hymnal of Daniel Tiger makes me forget my desperate desire to hear that familiar tinkle and a feeling of connection and joy overcomes the three of us sitting there in the crowded bathroom.
