"opposing desires" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to two conflicting or contradictory wants or needs. Example: The protagonist in the novel struggled with opposing desires - to pursue his dream of becoming a musician or to follow in his family's footsteps and become a lawyer.
An unsettling mish-mash of opposing desires and stereotypes, somehow both sexually deviant and virginal?
Telecommunications companies say they are trying to balance two opposing desires: cellular customers want clearer calls, and property owners want unobstructed views.
The advent of new technology has not only added to the conflict between the opposing desires for accessibility and privacy, it has also broken up the once-monolithic world of telecommunications.
Once an agent does apprehend them, however, their motivating power overcomes any opposing desires or inclinations.
The selection of distance between the borings and CPT holes involved two opposing desires; to minimize the effects of soil failure zones and to lessen the problem of non-homogeneity of tested soil.
As rational creatures, we soon realize that we would be better off, still from a thoroughly egoistic perspective, coming to an agreement among ourselves to restrain our opposing desires and the unbounded pursuit of self-interest in self-interest inld be in our greater sumf-inthatst to lite under the lawouldreason rather than the law of nature.
The arc of his career might seem to suggest that he is obsessed by a desire to glimpse something hidden and an opposing desire to shield his gaze.
THERE'S a dichotomy when it comes to cooking in January, a pull between the wintry urge for rich, hearty foods that warm the body and soothe the soul, and the opposing desire for eating lightly, healthfully and penitently after a holiday season of delightful excess.
His panacea goes something like this: man has a desire to like the world while fostering an equal and opposing desire to have "contempt" for the world. .
His panacea goes something like this: man has a desire to like the world while fostering an equal and opposing desire to have "contempt" for the world.
Interference [is] based on the idea that urban life is characterized by two opposing trends: an urge to belong and be part of a community and an opposing desire to be alone and anonymous in the middle of the rush.
