The trick in New York is to be desperately eager to cross the street.

She was desperately eager to relive with this stranger her time in the Nest.

He was desperately eager to reach the top, where someone or something wonderful waited for him, yet he did not want to get there.

I shouted, desperately eager for someone to meet my challenge.

They stared at each other; shy, embarrassed, both desperately eager to reach out to someone new.

He had spoken quickly, without thinking, and looked desperately eager for her idea.

In her preliminary interviews, she is finding women who are desperately eager to talk about their experiences.

Most of us are desperately eager to find precisely such guidelines.

The 28-year-old Wolfe was desperately eager to be published.

He turned toward the bank of glass elevators, desperately eager to join his bride.