intense desire

Hubbard attributed the disease to “an intense desire to ‘git thar’ and an awful feeling that you cannot.”

A food craving is an intense desire or urge to eat something, often focused on a particular food.

One of the movie’s fitfully tossed-off insights is that Napoleon’s grunting awkwardness in the bedroom and his tactical genius on the battlefield are expressions of the same intense desire — for dominion, conquest and a permanent place in history.

But that down-to-earth image belied an intense desire for public acclaim, she said.

Unknown at the time was the struggle Perry had with addiction and an intense desire to please audiences.