desideratum

1 Nationalism, democracy, and min shêng were each indispensable, but none was superior to the supreme desideratum, Chinese survival.

2 Homogeneity.—The optical desideratum is uniformity of refractive index and dispersive power throughout the mass of the glass.

3 But in reality, ideological purity and political loyalty have become the overriding desiderata of the day.

4 We marketing teams came to believe we alone could save startups from untimely deaths by achieving the desideratum to end all desiderata: product/market fit.

5 Audiences more intelligently critical and better trained are apparently the chief desiderata, if composers and performers are to rise above mediocrity.

6 Airports supply the greatest desideratum of physical retail: foot traffic.

7 A new edition, with additional literary illustrations and more appropriate embellishments, appears to me to be a desideratum.

8 Moreover, our journeys through this maze of quantification are subjected to the most accurate possible computer modelling, with a view to achieving that quintessentially modern desideratum: smooth traffic flow.

9 Figures and stripes do not conceal impurity, nor should this be a desideratum with any decent man.

10 Democracy and social welfare were necessary to the stability and effectiveness of this nationalism, but the preservation and continuation of the race-nation was always to remain the prime desideratum.

11 The text has been revised and, where necessary, rewritten, and is superior to the editions now current both in literary excellence and in the valuable desideratum of "accents" and other adaptabilities to musical utterance.

12 Collapsed condition, absences, interruptions of all sorts, have made the year end with most of the desiderata postponed to next year.

13 The British statement alone was published in his first edition, but the United States’ counter-statement, a very able paper, which was a great desideratum, has been annexed to the second edition.

14 More thorough investigation, however, based on the main desideratum, weight-power ratio, leads us to other conclusions, particularly with reference to high speed engines.

15 The other was older voters whose stated highest political desideratum was to get the government off their backs and out of their bedrooms.

16 But there’s another overall desideratum: The system has to be straightforward enough to be managed easily — to get large numbers of people vaccinated as swiftly as possible.

17 Those mountains heralded the approach of my desideratum.

18 The other reason is that in meeting novel problems the mental set or attitude is likely to be one which rejects one after another response as their unfitness to satisfy a certain desideratum appears.

19 Technique for technique's sake is no longer a desideratum; furthermore, as Felix Leifels wittily remarked: "No one plays the piano badly"; just as no one acts Hamlet disreputably.

20 But the core theme remains the same: You deliver the most legitimate desiderata of conservatism by embracing the practices, policies and ideals of liberalism.

1 迫切的需要

exigency

2 需要的东西

want thing

3 想望的东西

want