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Wanting
Wanting adjective - Falling short of a standard.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Instead, he becomes the Wolf King's apprentice, no longer wanting to be a weak sheep, but instead wanting to become a strong wolf like him.Things go downhill from there.
Source: Anime / Ringing Bell - He complained about his wife wanting to watch a game instead of taking him to the movies like she promised; tells her "don't touch me" like some wives usually do on TV while mad at her husbands.
Source: Gender-Inverted Trope -
The alternate takes for this scene had Donnie and Tacoma so close it looked more like Donnie was aiming for a blowjob than actually wanting to do his man proud.
Source: Web Video / Demo Reel
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