It depends on unshaken confidence that Cuba has the finest leaf, the most artisanal cigar-making factories and the best craft tradition.Cigar importers and smokers all terribly want to go on believing those things about their cherished Havanas.
Thomas told her he had had a terrible week, had missed her terribly and wanted to go to bed with her.
"I had so many students coming in terribly upset, wanting desperately to be at the university, but needing to know their families were O.K. We were constantly calling home".
Even if you're far away from your partner, and you miss them terribly, nobody wants to read about how you're trumping around the house, and can't eat or go out because of your unending devotion.
She wanted terribly to offer an amenity, an insider tip.
Vita Sackville-West, who wanted terribly to be remembered as a poet, but is better known for her experimental domestic arrangements and her garden at Sissinghurst, was the subject of one of the most stylish and experimental biographies in English.
She began to want to avoid the approach in bed, and then grew fearful that she would send him to the other woman by suggesting that she did not desire him; at the same time, she wanted terribly to put her hands, her mouth on the body beside her, no matter the humiliation of the act, which he fulfilled like a medical procedure, prescribed to satisfy her.
The couple owned a crafts store in Nyack for 44 years, and she recalled that in the early 1960s, "Nyack was called the 'Town That Died.' " She added, "It was a very sad little place, and the river was terribly polluted, nobody wanted to know about it".
When I was told my meeting with McEwan would take place in the boardroom of his publisher, Random House, I was terribly disappointed; I wanted to nose round one of his famously lovely homes (preferably the exquisite Fitzrovia terraced house that was the model for the surgeon Henry Perowne's house in Saturday).
All I felt was that I was terribly alone and simply wanted to be in this fellow being's company.
