Not, as the connotation might suggest, an eager attitude toward immolation, burning desire is instead an intensified form of standard, run-of-the-mill desire.

Where your garden-variety desire is marked by attention, interest, and occasional moans of longing, burning desire includes a constant aching need, pining, wailing and gnashing of teeth, and weeping tears of frustration.

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