lust after

"Our cutting room set up was a projector and a splicing machine, which we bought from the local camera shop - we lusted after having a camera so we could shoot our own film," he said.

Cartier’s store is one big fantasy world, filled with objects most people can’t afford but lust after.

“Or a collector brings in a body of work that you lusted after for many years.”

He lusts after his daughter’s teenaged friend, buys a 1970 Pontiac Firebird, starts smoking weed and gets a job in the drive-thru window at Mr. Smiley’s.

I’d also lusted after a campy toy that they and Santa Claus had denied me: a hairdresser styling kit with a mannequin doll head.