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Some of the fantasies in Want are moving - the bereaved woman who craves touch and mourns the secondary loss of sexual relations.

From BBC

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that an American billionaire, in possession of sufficient fortune, must be in want of a Supreme Court justice.”

You know, the whole business that goes “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

From Salon

It was set up in the 1950s as a place for early Indian immigrants to meet and connect, but now the India Club is set to shut down as the owners of the building it is housed in want to demolish a part of the structure to set up a more modernised hotel.

From BBC

Visiting her chilly mother in Liverpool, she becomes a girl in want of kindness and not getting much.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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