The phrase "morbid desire" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe an intense or unhealthy feeling of wanting or craving something. For example, "The dark thoughts about death that plagued him were a result of his morbid desire to end his suffering."
"A morbid desire for more" is driving the world economy.
Even if he has recorded his morbid desire and had it notarized?
Is it a function of a morbid desire to be proximate to tragedy that makes me recount this?
It also uncovers some distinctly undesirable desires - instant rage and jealousy, an inability to tolerate being thwarted, a morbid desire for the unattainable.
The conviction that the natural world is ours for the taking, but that human nature remains closed to change, has led directly to multiple global crises - climate change, growing inequality, and, less noted, but perhaps even more significant, a pervasive, doomed and morbid desire for the unattainable.
In the introduction to his 1955 landmark collection, "Notes of a Native Son," he wrote, "About my interests: I don't know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified".
He appeared, uncredited, as Deep Throat in Elvis Meets Nixon (1997), had a cameo as Grandpa Addams in Addams Family Reunion (1998) and, more recently, took roles in the romantic drama Loving Annabelle and horror films such as Fallen Angels (both 2006) and Her Morbid Desires (2008).
With strangers, I adopted the servile manner of a concierge greeting wealthy clients in a hotel -- salival enthusiasm born of a morbid, indiscriminate desire for affection.
Last year, tortured Ralph Fiennes doing tortured Graham Greene's "End of the Affair" was just what my morbid heart desired.
To my knowledge, Baldwin never satisfied that desire (morbid, perhaps, because he knew of the herculean effort that goes into getting any movie made), but he never stopped yearning to be a filmmaker.
Though he ultimately cast these morbid plans aside and announced his desire "to live it out," there didn't seem much reason to believe Frank would be back.
