Always a passionate opponent of imperialism, he dismayed Churchill by making plain his desire to prevent the old European nations from reoccupying their Asian empires.
Merle declined to get specific about the trouble at hand, saying that "there's too many people hurt already," but he made plain his desire to continue to stay the hell out of Tennessee as much as possible.
The conflict is most engaging when the colors do not quite harmonize, as in "The Flood Plain of Desire," in which the purple velvet of the flanking panels grates against the softer blues and pinks of the central canvas.
Johnson has also made plain his desire for investment, which is fine, but he doesn't seem to care for whom, by whom and for what benefit this investment is made.
And it goes without saying that anything as puny as the idea of love, much less the pressure to connect with another human being, is nowhere in evidence; Millet is so turned in on her own "vast plain of... desire" as to suggest a kind of emotional autism.
Treasury has certainly aided this process in that Secretaries O'Neill and Snow mocked or questioned the importance of a strong dollar, while Secretary Paulson has made plain his desire to see the dollar weaken through his jawboning of China.
Now it is time for all parties to make plain that they desire an expeditious decision in this matter, and that legal challenges to the election will end with the final judgments of the Florida Supreme Court.
Where Congress took such great pains to protect the Mediation Board in its handling of an explosive problem, we cannot help but believe that if Congress had desired to implicate the federal judiciary and to place on the federal courts the burden of having the final say on any aspect of the problem, it would have made its desire plain.
In Hass's hands, both approaches resist closure and convey a slightly earnest sensuality that often involves plain old physical desire (there are a lot of women here, and they're regularly being "made love to") but also emerges in lovely, exacting natural descriptions: "In the pools / anemones, cream-colored, little womb-mouths".
Upon being cut by the Patriots, Tebow made plain his continued desire to play quarterback in the NFL.
