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Its use in Classical Latin was more or less the same as it is today--as a weak aspiration, the Romans being no more desirous of exerting themselves than we are.
Less than two years later, on his deathbed, terribly ill and desirous of death, Keats asked just the same question in one of his last letters: "Is there another life?
Just three weeks ago the NYT ran another front-page story (different author) explaining that casinos were fleecing seniors because seniors are 1) lonely; 2) desirous of excitement and 3) from a generation with a fondness for get-rich-quick schemes.
Seniors succumb because they are 1) lonely; 2) desirous of excitement and 3) from a generation easily convinced that a mailing is "official."
The Times lead details "unusually bitter" feelings expressed by several Democratic candidates desirous of eleventh-hour cash that the party high command is instead putting money into erasing party debt and the launch of Al Gore's presidential campaign.