His next order wasn't so much the issuing of a command as the utterance of a private desire.

He played his people like a board game - catering to the private desires of different interest groups and playing off one interest against another.

Who can fathom the private desires of public notaries?

What is clear is that such private desires were not sealed off from the world of public representations.

Until the needs of others are more important than any private desires.

If you win your own private desires but lose the life of a world, will it be worth it?

This divorce between public values and private desires is dangerous.

How can private desires be reconciled with public responsibilities?

He fell silent and moved his lips, expressing his deepest, most private desires.