Words similar to wanting

Example sentences for: wanting

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The scenes of Joy at work (wanting to do good, she crosses a picket line to take a job teaching English as a second language) are coarsely conceived, and the parents, Mona and Lenny, don't exist on the same level as the other characters.
Milosevic might also be wanting to strengthen Rugova's international standing against the more militant Kosovar politicians who have gained the upper hand since the Rambouillet agreement.
Liberal feminists (myself included, I'm sorry to say) were so eager to "educate the public" about sexual harassment, to say nothing of wanting to get rid of an anti-abortion Supreme Court candidate, that they were willing to overlook the frightening precedent being set.
The most notorious of these was "The Black Male in Western Art," at which patrons were handed buttons reading "I Can't Imagine Ever Wanting to be White."
Here Roudinesco is rather limitingly censorious, wanting Lacan to pay his debts rather than being amazed by what he could make of what he found in the work of these remarkable people.