Desirous of

Usage examples of wanting.

I cannot follow your advice, as by doing so I should be wanting in politeness to Nina, who likes to see me and gives me a warm welcome.

He felt she was hiding something and that her reasons for not wanting to consummate their marriage were detailed and involved, maybe because she was saving herself for an annulment or another man.

At that point, they may find themselves with split loyalties: on the one hand, to defend the prime law of the anthropic cosmos, while at the same time, not wanting to surrender their misguided but nevertheless human peers into the claws of a great evil.

She joined him, already tingling, anticipating, and wanting him so much.

In all of my fights -- with the possible exception of the bargemaster with the knife and the Christian hunter with his flechette gun -- I had held something back, not wanting to hit them as hard as I could, not wanting to hurt them too badly.

Unhappily, the baronet, who by some fatality never could see when he was winning the battle, thought proper in his wisdom to water the dryness of his sermon with a little jocoseness, on the subject of young men fancying themselves in love, and, when they were raw and green, absolutely wanting to be--that most awful thing, which the wisest and strongest of men undertake in hesitation and after self-mortification and penance-- married!

He maintained a slight version of his blurring shield, not wanting to be seen nor to draw attention.

Seeing how badly he was wanting them, I worked him around to trading me galloglaiches three for one, then paid the hire of some bonnaghts he was not using just then and went on me way to the Kingdom of Ros Commain.

She seemed to come for entire minutes, wanting to push Brok away yet wanting to pull him closer and force his head down harder on her tits.

He had tried hard to avoid homonyms, wanting to reserve the confusion of words that sounded alike but meant different things until they shared a larger vocabulary.

Litho forges by lithography, a printing process using stone developed two centuries ago by Aloys Senefelder, a mediocre playwright wanting to facsimile his plays on the cheap.

So furious with Mandrill, wanting to lash out at him, she could have made a mistake.

She had no time for reflection, however, for now Miss Chalmers and the Misses Melks closed in, wanting to know every detail of the fictitious betrothal.

Then he would walk to the metro and head for the bookstall, where he would pretend to be a student wanting to buy a foreign videotape machine.

But lately it was rumored Galucci was having a midlife crisis, wanting to make more of a name for himself, pushing his associates around.