desiderate

Example Sentences

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The passion we desiderate for the present-day pulpit includes something almost infinitely higher than this.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)

Let those who deny that Secular Truth meets the emotional part of their nature, settle what is the nature of the emotions they desiderate.

From The Principles Of Secularism by Holyoake, George Jacob

Mind in itself is also intelligible; a pleasure is as intelligible as would be any transmutation of it into the inscrutable essence that people often desiderate.

From Practical Essays by Bain, Alexander

And tenderness, too—but does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?

From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan

One can only query whether poetry has anything to do with “modern development,” and desiderate the addition to “sentiment” of “art.”

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George