How To Use Yearning In A Sentence

People all say the crystal-like dews are the tears shed by the stars. But do you ever know, they are also my yearning tears for you .
Sometimes they are approached in terms of affect: there is a painful negative hunger, or a more tender affirmatory yearning, and these modes of will oppose and supplant each other, articulating a dynamic basis to material reality (Ages 170). Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music.
And what's so impressive is that Parini manages to create Melville's homoerotic yearning and despair in the context of 19th-century attitudes about sexuality, a pre-Freudian age that had not neatly divided the world into gay and straight, but also had no words for the feelings of love between men that Walt Whitman was so bravely yawping about. Melville's stormy seas
My heart aches now, yearning for you to come back and hug me for the last time before you leave.

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The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
We cannot continue to turn a blind eye or ear and pretend that all is well when many people are hurting and yearning for help.
That had been less than a year ago, and Inger's tender heart ached for the child's obvious yearning for comfort.
At this moment, I have the deepest yearning. Let cloud wisher to bless with full intention, embellish your sweet dream, wish you to own a happy happy New Year!
After the brutal long-drawn-out tribal war, the common people living in the area are all yearning for peace and security.
They were yearning to know whom he had finally chosen and could hardly bear to stay in the dark until that night, wondering if he'd made the right choice.
He once thought that all this yearning would consume him in its searing intensity, until he could no longer bear the pain.
If genuine wealthy backers were out there, yearning to back me wealthily, was I to turn up my nose at them? Why Sarah Palin and I Aren't Running
The unending yearning, like a boat with broken oars, rows across the sea of my sad heart.
Between their comic-relief scenes — like collaring guys in hot dog costumes — Renzulli's wisecracks, Jamie's wet-behind-the-ears earnestness and their effortless rapport, it's easy to see why fans are yearning for more. Blue Bloods' Oddly Perfect Partners Building on "Great Chemistry"
In these post-tsunami times, with nonstop images of tiny outstretched hands and grief-stricken eyes on the television, most of us feel a yearning to do something to help.
There's another story here of an oppressed people yearning to breathe free. Times, Sunday Times
The film certainly succeeds in doing that - but it also taps into Barrie's well-documented yearning for a world in which playfulness and whimsy would always triumph over seriousness and propriety.
And since the whole country is yearning for peace, I believe these different points of view will finally converge in a grand national consensus.
Frank sang the responsorial psalm, ‘Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you my God’.
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? Haruki Murakami
Before long a carnival of color began which I can only describe as delirious, intoxicating, a hardly bearable joy, a tender anguish, an indescribable yearning, an unearthly music, rich in love and worship. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
Behold, here there begins an eternal craving and continual yearning in eternal insatiableness. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
In a culture and a region where the old story of boy meets girl is not only frowned on, but downright discouraged, love, or at least adolescent yearnings, will often find a way.
MacArthur happened to be a very, very smart guy who came along at the right time, but the yearning to mathematize ecology was already in the air. The Song of The Dodo
Like so many, these romantic yearnings and unrequited needs/dreams are again logged into my aspiration file under, one day soon ... How often....
After the brutal long-drawn-out tribal war, the common people living in the area are all yearning for peace and security.
A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.Another letter is another expectation,and my love for you will never change in the following years.
As a nation of the disenfranchised, freaks, and outsiders, we can identify with the yearning to fit in somewhere.
With those changes from major to minor, they can wrap a luxuriant sense of yearning around you like a mink stole. Times, Sunday Times
The yearning for peace is lost in the unholy belief that ‘might makes right.’
The feminine side in all of us sometimes represents fulfilment of spiritual yearnings.
As I watched Waiting for 'Superman', the students and their families depoliticized the film for me and I cut down on my thoughts of, "No, it isn't like that," and "But you don't consider this," -- I was wrapped in their yearning for a slot in one of the charter schools presented. Christopher Reeve: Who is the Real Superman?
The first movement's mix of romantic yearning and arpeggiated glitter, toy fanfares and epic octaves, is unsettling. Times, Sunday Times
Primarily, however, the drama is about yearning and the futility of attempting to suppress human emotion.
The government's strong-arm tactics may squelch protests, but they don't extinguish yearnings for freedom.
How, exactly, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem came to involve at least one flying, no less ungulate with a photoluminescent proboscis, abominable snowmen, a Christmas elf yearning to be a dentist, not to mention more than one lobster... is a bit hard to fathom. David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island
I associate this brand of feminism with a certain variety of white, coastal-city dwelling, fairly well-to-do heterosexual cisgendered woman, a woman with a comfortable white-collar job that is so very comfortable and so very white-collar that she is free to spend her spare time yearning for, and semi-believing that she could attain, something with more “meaning.” Already Thursday! How? « Gerry Canavan
The feeling was so strange; I wandered round the house with an undefined nostalgic yearning.
To this terrible, irrepressible yearning, (surely more or less down underneath in most human souls) this universal democratic comradeshipthis old, eternal, yet ever-new interchange of adhesiveness, so fitly emblematic of AmericaI have given in that book, undisguisedly, declaredly, the openest expression. Preface, 1876, To the Two-Volume Centennial Edition of L. of G. and “Two Rivulets.” Collect
The legend of the Flying Dutchman is as old as Homer, who showed us Ulysses as an unresting traveler, yearning for home and domestic joys.
Yearning for a brand, spanking new home but don't have the down payment?
Scenes such as this will have you yearning for sea air and salty chips. Times, Sunday Times
He was a passionate and emotional man always yearning to uncover and reveal the mystery of the world he lived in.
By the end of the series, only one couple had succeeded in turning their parental yearnings into bundles of joy (twins, as it happened).
A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.Another letter is another expectation,and my love for you will never change in the following years.
There is a yearning here for common experience. Times, Sunday Times
Auber's Manon Lescaut reworks Prévost's novel about the nymphet who hurtles to self-destruction when love comes into conflict with her yearning for the high life, which can only be purchased with her body.
Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim. How l wish this small piece of paper would take to youmyresdess yearning.
Guests, yearning for last year's multicourse feast, spent the evening picking through boxes of Dean & Deluca breadsticks and passing around tin cans of Swedish fish and gummy peaches. Geeks, Stars Check In at Webby Awards
We had a special yearning to give them something precious, even though, looking back, it must have been one nauseating meal.
Over two sets in which he visibly unwound from a nervous start, Cullum rattled through originals, pop covers and standards, with a yearning account of Radiohead's High And Dry, and Fran Landesman's classic Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most – riskily but successfully joining intimate balladry to beatboxing – the highlights. Hugh Laurie at Cheltenham Jazz Festival - review
Most compelling are her songs that capture the essence of saudade, which has no exact translation to English but can be described as the overpowering nostalgia and yearning for something which is gone. Buzzine » Mariza
Each bench holds a tragic little operetta of thwarted desire and hapless yearning. Times, Sunday Times
Was society really yearning for another drag comedy, this time featuring college guys in miniskirts?
An economy/society dominated by marketing, instant gratification and a desperate and highly manufactured yearning for self-glorification is not a healthy society, and the illness of that society manifests itself in poor mental and physical health. Chris Martenson, Ph.D.: Straight Talk with Charles Hugh Smith: Why The Status Quo Is Unsustainable
Gandhi pithily expressed his deep yearning in 1936 to Maurice Frydman, a Polish engineer, while discussing the village reconstruction movement.
A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.Another letter is another expectation,and my love for you will never change in the following years.
What motivates Maurice is not lechery but a yearning envy of Jessie's youth and a longing for his own.
But now, in the long absence of wonted delights, the keen yearning of his stomach was tickled hugely by the sharp, salty bacon. FINIS
On the catwalk, they've teamed them with pencil skirts to complete a smart suit look that conveys better than anything the yearning for a long-overdue dose of ladylike elegance in fashion.
Africa's "renaissance" or rebirth is in the hands of its young people yearning to breathe free and struggling to exert their creative impulses to lift the continent out of poverty and dictatorship. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Education Unbanned!
…we can even use the word erotic to describe a yearning for unity to overcome separation. The Templar Revelation
A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.Another letter is another expectation,and my love for you will never change in the following years.
But it's not done in a vacuum - Marshall's legal victories reflected the long-term disgruntlement and yearnings of the (black) man in the street, as well as a firm grasp of Constitutional law. Hillary Spokesman: She Won Because New Hampshire Voters "Liked What They Saw"
All this might point to a tacit disappointment with the cinema as we know it and a yearning for the Platonic ideal we dream it capable of.
And although their songs are often About Stuff, U2 patented this stubbornly pervasive tone of wafty, inchoate, non-specific, quasi-spiritual yearning that has come to typify big stadium acts. Are U2 bad for Glastonbury?
Galloway Street beautifully captures the harshness of poverty and the warm good humour of a childhood dominated by songs, yarns and the yearnings of his Irish relatives for their native land.
The yearning for romance blurted out by these sweet imaginings is fierce, but the paintings are pleasantly calm, as if the act of painting them were part of a healing process.
But even in these cases, there is sometimes a lingering sense of kinship with another America, the America of unrequited yearnings.
There is a legacy of ice sports in that area and the public is yearning for it to come back.
The feelings evoked; the longings unleashed; the yearnings induced; the awe inspired.
There's a yearning for something more permanent now, people want stability and ritual. Times, Sunday Times
Human taste requires variety and something should be done to quench this yearning for variety in the desert they are wandering in.
Like its multi-platinum predecessor, it's full of yearning tunes and poignant, confessional lyrics that foster an intense and highly personal sense of identification between the band and its fans.
As his relevance increases so does the insatiable yearning for their source to yield more.
The diaries are at the heart of much of this continuing interest, even when perhaps not obviously so, because of their dogged frankness about Mann's yearning and unpractised homosexuality.
Nor did he invent that particularly intense expression of yearning called speaking in tongues.
The devaluation of romantic love hasn't killed the yearning for it. Times, Sunday Times
Now the agonies focused less on Peggy's behaviors than on Moore's yearning for her own true self.
I gave up the yearnings for a boyfriend at about 30, when I bought my first house, which may or may not be a coincidence.
Yesterday's mention of my yearning for someone who likes the smell of pesto has had people fessing up to a basil bias all over the place.
If the sonnets, odes, and elegies are primarily concerned with "memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop," as Biespiel has it, why would a public yearning for "moral persuasion" bother with it? Poetry
Onto this fairytale princess many women projected their own unsatisfied yearnings: they identified with her vulnerability, her perceived status as a victim.
The preparations lasted ten days, after which he set out with the Sultan, whose heart burned in yearning for his city whence he had been absent a whole twelvemonth. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
These improvised sacred symbols place the trees and the entire local biotic community at the center of the sacral yearning that has brought us here.
Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim. How l wish this small piece of paper would take to youmyresdess yearning.
My yearning and lust for this movie was unquenchable at the time, rivaling my current prayers for a quick and merciful death.
Wanting and yearning for clarity and peace of mind.
The devaluation of romantic love hasn't killed the yearning for it. Times, Sunday Times
You cannot have too much of that yearning which we call aspiration, for, even though you do not attain your ideal, the efforts you make will bring nothing but blessing; while he who fails of attaining mere worldly goals is too often eaten up with the canker-worm of disappointed ambition. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
In all the yearning literature this place has spawned, the only indigenous characters are servants and bearers and extras - and that's shaming.
The figures ache with yearning yet wear expressions of thrilled surrender and delirious abandon.
Loneliness can be an intensely painful encounter, along with a deep yearning and a sense of restlessness. Beyond Chaotic Eating
A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.Another letter is another expectation,and my love for you will never change in the following years.
The fact is that he sounds so, well, jolly contented, and perhaps a bit of lonely yearning would have made the material a little more challenging and rewarding.
Yet his environment is revealed not as the natural paradise lesser writers edit, out of black yearning for a preconquest state of being or white yearning for a pre-industrial one, from the footage of reality. The Child Is the Man
The fivesome displayed a hard-driving pulse and yearning, clear vocals.
Not only the yearning love of God, but the conquering freedom of Man is finally attested by that blood-red seal which bears the impressure of a Cross. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
Or maybe it was just Tolkien, sickened by the barbarousness of the 20th century, yearning for the certainties of a lost England that possibly never existed anyway.
I had a strong yearning for'hard' literature. Times, Sunday Times
In all the yearning literature this place has spawned, the only indigenous characters are servants and bearers and extras - and that's shaming.
His James is celibate and asexual, without the homosexual yearnings suggested in Tóibín's novel, although Lodge does allow him the reflection that, if one had to, rather with a man than a woman.
The vintage light of Affonso Beato's cinematography producing sunglow yellow in California and glam grim blue in John Lindsay's New York helps set a mood of nostalgia for nostalgia, a yearning for youthful earnestness. Slate Magazine
Impersonal, they hint at repressed yearnings for intimacy.
The outer movements are undistinguished but the central adagio swoons with escapist yearnings for the unattainable.
A free-flowing fantasia, it uses bitonal harmonic clashes in its depiction of man's yearning to transcend nature and create the amoral figure of the Superman, the being of the future who is ‘beyond good and evil’.
The other day I came home chilled to the bone, yearning for something satisfying. Times, Sunday Times
He played with easy beguiling brilliance, like neon light, at times erupting into shards of pure ecstatic electric yearning.
Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim. How l wish this small piece of paper would take to youmyresdess yearning.
Cheever's flickering back and forth between a yearning for light and the destructive lure (alcoholic, carnal) of darkness is rendered on a scale at once "ingrown" and vast. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
The love scenes between Fawcett and Boothe are straight out of a Harlequin novel, all romance and yearning and aching passion.
The unending yearning, like a boat with broken oars, rows across the sea of my sad heart.
I sense the wishes and yearnings that are in your soul!
The second movement, a romanza, shows more contrapuntal resource, and is full of a deep yearning and appeal, -- an extremely beautiful movement. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
There's an, Oh, such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
Such yearning is a manifestation of a pure revolutionary spirit.
The devaluation of romantic love hasn't killed the yearning for it. Times, Sunday Times
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? Haruki Murakami
springer," for I went northwards with a desire to catch one that had taken the form of a longing, a yearning for many successive seasons. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
A requiem written by Brahms on the death of his mother distils yearning, bereavement, knowledge that this world is transient - yet so, also, will be his grief.
All four wistful and melodic tracks document yearning and loss with an almost angelic intervention.
I think our music crosses over because we're tapping into a romantic yearning that so many people have.
That book of limitless yearning was like an eager bird through the clouds.
Notwithstanding that only a few men yearn to be compleat gentlemen - to live chivalrously - the yearning is a constant, from one millennium to the next.
Ordinary people are acting out a rampant yearning to be glamourized and mythologized by eagerly submitting to reality TV's 24/7 camera surveillance.
That pain, that longing, that yearning! Times, Sunday Times
They suggest a yearning for lost innocence. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, despite Katie Sketch's melodramatics (at times), her yearning howl is easily the most original thing here.
But life has never been kind to these devoted companions, whose romantic yearnings flounder and remain unrequited.
There comes a point in every festival where I start yearning for something pure and weighty - not to mention the more comfy seats of the International Festival venues.
The country is yearning for clean and honest leadership.
Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. Meet The Amazing Buck Sargent
He exposes his characters to an unblinking scrutiny, probing their yearning, desire, and heart-break with eyes wide open.
The unending yearning, like a boat with broken oars, rows across the sea of my sad heart.
Its two well-drawn female characters, the courageous heroine, and the stern, endurant, yearning mother, show how well Verne could depict the tenderer sex when he so willed. The Survivors of the Chancellor
A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.Another letter is another expectation,and my love for you will never change in the following years.
The deep yearning for romance that led her from one marriage to another was virtually imprinted on her from childhood. Times, Sunday Times
Without expectations of the big dramatic event or the boffo laugh, the rhythm of the voice makes manifest a yearning that might be spiritual or romantic.
They are bound together by South African ideals; by black South African yearning for freedom and by a black South African deep-rooted and irradicable determination to banish racism, including the racism of what the West terms "tribalism," from the face of South Africa. Goals Beyond the Destruction of Apartheid
The Surrealism of Edward James, born into a world absolutely cluttered with expensive things and yearning to be free of their magnetism (when periodically overwhelmed by stuff that he accumulated, down to old matchboxes, he would simply have it all wrapped in bushels of tissue, packed in trunks and stored in a warehouse), has a blithe humor tinged with disdain that I sensed often in Las Pozas. Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
It is the lure of celebrity, the dazzle of stardust, the yearning for intimacy with the famous that are the most powerful commercial forces in the world today.
and the yearning stalagmites bristling upwards, gorgonized sound-baffles licking out reverb, tubular silence: cold-wet, the guts of stone hills, these, the villi of the earth itself, absorbing no nutrient but sound. Archive 2007-10-01
In its widest acceptation, concupiscence is any yearning of the soul for good; in its strict and specific acceptation, a desire of the lower appetite contrary to reason. The Purity of Mary
How many other souls, more often young than not, have felt the same yearning and desire to do something with their lives? Christianity Today
But his natural métier was disappointed romance and unfulfilled yearnings.
Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim. How l wish this small piece of paper would take to youmyresdess yearning.
There's a mixture of trepidation and euphoria to this song as it timidly climbs: the yearning sound of the violin constantly clawing over the quickening beat.
Only, years of yearning to become an on-screen hero has made him the off-screen pain-in-the-neck.
An occasional soul, defying all these constrains, wants to realize this truth and overcome illusion, and such a yearning soul is a fit person to become a disciple.
There was a particular yearning in the air that the women could still sense, though the room had been filled with army cots and was patrolled by Aunts with electric cattle prods.
The problem for the 'racial scientist' is his yearning to generalise. Times, Sunday Times
Viewers can luxuriate in a riot of color, aerial ballet, and wildly imaginative notions of love and yearning - expressions of what it feels like to be alive.
Yearning guitar licks, frenetic scratching, and bombastic drums are the order of the day on nearly all of the tracks giving the album both a cohesive and monotonous feel.
The play is set up to be a microcosm of relationships; a mirror in which those in love can see themselves and those singletons out there can indulge their yearnings for romance.
These are songs built around a yearning violin, a plucky banjo riff or an accordion sigh.
The wrong done him by the TRANSCONTINENTAL loomed colossal, for strong upon him were all the dreary months of vain yearning, of hunger and privation, and his present hunger awoke and gnawed at him, reminding him that he had eaten nothing since the day before, and little enough then. Chapter 33
With pain so prevalent, can one blame yearnings for a painless hereafter?
The angry state of Prussia was now divided into two parts by the Polish Corridor, and Gdansk had become the so-called Free City of Danzig, yearning to unite openly with Prussia. Poland
Taking his cues from such veterans as David Byrne, Moore uses his latest release as a vehicle for exploring the heart of an artist given over to yearning love and crusading anger.
The yearning for spiritual fulfilment is universal in human nature, although it is expressed in many forms and embodied in many creeds. The Plague of Pessimism
The unending yearning, like a boat with broken oars, rows across the sea of my sad heart.
Mr. Lee, I could find in any clodded trifle the outlets of sky my yearning mind covets: hay fever would lead me by prismatic omissions and plunging ellipses of thought to the vaster spirals and eddies of all-viewing Mind. Shandygaff
I was yearning to see my brother, but I was embarrassed by the complications in my life.
And all the while the dog sat and watched him, a certain yearning wistfulness in its eyes, for it looked upon him as the fire-provider, and the fire was slow in coming. To Build A Fire
The Great Depression temporarily slowed the outward migration, but it didn't change the yearnings of Americans.
We find, accordingly, in this career of optics the greatest minds constantly yearning to break the bounds of the senses, and to trace phenomena to their subsensible foundation. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
And, if you would learn a secret, even before man trod here, in the days when the dicynodont bent yearningly over her young, and the river-horse which you find now nowhere on earth's surface, save buried in stone, called with love to his mate; and the birds whose footprints are on the rocks flew in the sunshine calling joyfully to one another -- even in those days when man was not, the fore-dawn of this kingdom had broken on the earth. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
How he must have aspired to rise up forcefully, his yearning impregnating the walls with a similar passion.
And he felt the stir in him, like a throe of yearning pain, of the desire to paint these visions that flashed unsummoned on the mirror of his mind. Chapter 10
He prefers to sing in a blurry mumble, letting his meanings emerge in the scuffed and yearning tone of his voice as much as in the words themselves.
Running through the film is a yearning nostalgia for the social unity of the war years, remembered fondly as Britain's ‘finest hour’.
So far the state has taken custody of at least 401 children peacefully removed from the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado.
While those in their 40s and 50s may feel oppressed by their jobs, resenting the daily commute to work and yearning for retirement, we are already free and full of spirit.
Parsifal - at the end of the weightiest, most yearning Vorspiel one can imagine, as the woodwind sing out into the Bayreuth gloom and the strings disappear into the stratosphere we are suddenly plunged into inky digital silence before the first scene begins. Where is there an end of it?
The fact that his body-the yearnings and desires of his body-could have so completely overthrown the disci pline of his mind disgusted him. The Soulforge
Similarly, our comedies season is not just about laughter, but the yearning for harmony and reconciliation which lies at the heart of Shakespeare's great comedies.
But while Linda wants to give up trying for a child, Pete still has parental yearnings.
Outside, the new moon shines bright all around, but the lonely lamp on my desk is dim. How l wish this small piece of paper would take to youmyresdess yearning.
A letter contains bitterness,taking away yearning and leaving loving thoughts behind.Another letter is another expectation,and my love for you will never change in the following years.
Harriet watched the couples foxtrotting round the floor, holding each other as closely as lovers, in an aura of yearning which surely had something to do with the times as much as the people. Presumption of Death
Compared to his duplicity, their single-hearted yearning seems almost naive. Rose Marie Berger: Epiphany: When Three Kings Beat a Royal Flush
The unending yearning, like a boat with broken oars, rows across the sea of my sad heart.
My savoury yearnings were sated by now, though the whole Camembert fondu with Chablis and garlic was very tempting.
She's embellished her dress with lots of hearts too but given her current personal circumstances means that she is yearning for love. The Sun
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Then he slowed the sound to a soft, yearning beat.
Since the vulgar dialects of the people had neither alphabet nor orthography, he chalked the Latin words for "Penance, Solitude, and Silence," on a large flat stone, and wrote them again below in ancient English, hoping, in spite of his unacknowledged yearning for someone to talk to, that the old man would understand and leave him to his lonely Lenten vigil. A Canticle for Leibowitz
She gave a bright and curious performance in the film but it was the emotional vibrato of her rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow’ which set the yearning tone of her career.
Elizabeth Peyton's celebrity subjects look as wispish and yearning as her portraits of friends and lovers. Peyton's Idolatry in Portrait
Throughout these films and now in Goddess, Law betrays a yearning passion to mine the inner worlds of her characters, to find out what it is that makes them cry, laugh, dance and desire.
As they fade from the masturbatory male dream, their exoticism paled by the proof of proper, grown-up ladies who rarely have the look of someone yearning for the touch of a boy with back acne, lesbians are appearing more and more in the fantasies (occasionally sexy, more often domestic) of straight women. Up front: Eva Wiseman
Or had I been blinded by my own passion, and my own desperate yearning for her to see me as I saw her?
The Kaddish is a prayer that praises God and expresses a yearning for the establishment of God's kingdom on earth.
The insatiable yearning to know more makes each day exciting and each discovery a gem.
In 1975 I was sitting in the balcony of the Elgin Theatre one electric Manhattan midnight watching through the haze of an opiate ambiance the film Siddhartha, which is based on a Hermann Hesse novel that inundated my generation with yearning. Jack Schimmelman: Sankai Juku (studio by the mountain and the sea)
Rorty has known the call of intense and ultimately spiritual yearnings.
It is only later generations, yearning for the comfort of a golden past, who have fallen for his euphonious silliness. Times, Sunday Times
The yearning of the poor that the Independence of the country and the shedding of the yoke of an oppressive colonial past would bring wealth or at least a little more prosperity to them, still remain an unfulfilled dream.
The melody was divine, played on accordian, such haunted yearning. Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock

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