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Sentence Examples But her audience isn't limited to a cache of misty-eyed ex-pats yearning for home. And since the whole country is yearning for peace, I believe these different points of view will finally converge in a grand national consensus. He enlists the art-house talents of Maggie and Tony, cinema's most blissfully yearning on-screen couple. My heart aches now, yearning for you to come back and hug me for the last time before you leave. He exposes his characters to an unblinking scrutiny, probing their yearning, desire, and heart-break with eyes wide open. It is an imperialist movement, yearning for an imagined golden age which it hopes to recreate. Most of the rest of the media seemed to join in, yearning for a lost golden age. The figures ache with yearning yet wear expressions of thrilled surrender and delirious abandon. Even if the bio-parents are drug abusers or drunkards, the child still has that yearning to know where they come from. We are all constantly yearning to fly, chart new vistas, explore new horizons and find our own path. 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. We had a special yearning to give them something precious, even though, looking back, it must have been one nauseating meal. There is a legacy of ice sports in that area and the public is yearning for it to come back. Human taste requires variety and something should be done to quench this yearning for variety in the desert they are wandering in. Today we hear a lot about the yearning for spiritual simplicity and silent contemplation. My palate was yearning for some simple, fruity wine from the latest vintage. He knew from recent experience that neither sitting on boards of directors nor consulting would satisfy his yearning to have an impact. 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. Polish Romanticism is infused with messianism, nationalistic yearning, Byronic rebellion. Like everyone else I've used the pink hues of impatiens and the ubiquitous caladiums, but I was yearning for something a little brighter. Show More Sentences That had been less than a year ago, and Inger's tender heart ached for the child's obvious yearning for comfort. Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic yearning common to Japanese folk music. Only, years of yearning to become an on-screen hero has made him the off-screen pain-in-the-neck. Gandhi pithily expressed his deep yearning in 1936 to Maurice Frydman, a Polish engineer, while discussing the village reconstruction movement. As a nation of the disenfranchised, freaks, and outsiders, we can identify with the yearning to fit in somewhere. A return to traditional home life leads to a yearning for traditional product offerings. I thought at first that it was quite a page-turner, but eventually I found myself yearning for the end to come. Or had I been blinded by my own passion, and my own desperate yearning for her to see me as I saw her? It's autumn, the time of year when we get a wistful yearning for cinder toffee. 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. Instinct kicked in and I slowly bent my head towards hers, leaning down to press my yearning lips against her innocent ones. The play confirms that under Coward's sophisticated mask lay a Peter Pan terrified of maturity and yearning for spiritual freedom. Your deep yearning for communion originates from your soul and is a yearning for unity with God. As companies competed to indulge this yearning, they began to elaborate mass production into mass customization. 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. The insatiable yearning to know more makes each day exciting and each discovery a gem. As his relevance increases so does the insatiable yearning for their source to yield more. She gazed directly at Ryan with yearning eyes, and Ryan felt like she was speaking specifically of him, which made him feel good. In fact, despite Katie Sketch's melodramatics, her yearning howl is easily the most original thing here. What is the suppressed focus, the yearning urge in our species to be so neccessarily linked? Show More Sentences It allows yearning singles to evaluate what a persons' personality is like even before they get an opportunity to make awkward eye contact. He interprets the moment of suicidal hesitation as a Keatsian yearning for transcendence through death. John Savage's yearning flute sound, with the band closing around him like shadows in moonlight, is exquisite on Faded Beauty. Martha's self-titled debut shows that raspy, yearning voice to good effect, along with a remarkably-developed songwriting talent all her own. Those who have listened to him once are found to be yearning to watch him perform again and again. Tramps who once scorned communism began to cast a yearning eye toward Western-style yuppiedom. What motivates Maurice is not lechery but a yearning envy of Jessie's youth and a longing for his own. Was society really yearning for another drag comedy, this time featuring college guys in miniskirts? We all have a craving in life, be it a powerful yearning or a strong zest for something we seek. It contains a yearning fuzzy electricified guitar mixed with a looping acoustic melody. I especially like the last two in the top row, the girlfriends and the yearning girl. And she switches expertly from the upper crust wife yearning for a bit of rough to the cold company strategist. Prayer meetings are moving where there is a longing desire and yearning for answers from heaven. All four wistful and melodic tracks document yearning and loss with an almost angelic intervention. The mathematical rhythms and yearning lyrics of Tagore's songs are hard to resist. It told the strange story of one man's yearning to fit into society so much that he magically morphed into his surroundings with ease. He was a passionate and emotional man always yearning to uncover and reveal the mystery of the world he lived in. These are songs built around a yearning violin, a plucky banjo riff or an accordion sigh. In my vain yearning to refashion my self in the model of Nigella, I would be wise to consider several basic truths. He once thought that all this yearning would consume him in its searing intensity, until he could no longer bear the pain. Show More Sentences Primarily, however, the drama is about yearning and the futility of attempting to suppress human emotion. Now the agonies focused less on Peggy's behaviors than on Moore's yearning for her own true self. A sub-plot sees Sanderson still yearning for his ex-wife, but reluctant to make the first move towards a reconciliation. The subject is almost all semitones, this time expressing yearning and anticipation, rather than sorrow. I think our music crosses over because we're tapping into a romantic yearning that so many people have. He played with easy beguiling brilliance, like neon light, at times erupting into shards of pure ecstatic electric yearning. Surprisingly, as I got off the ship, chained and shackled, I didn't feel a deep yearning or nostalgic inclination to being on land. It has a strong army, a yearning for law and order, and a burning ambition to belong to the world's Great Powers. There is something rather touching about four cool-looking kids, living in Las Vegas, yearning for the echt experience of a bedsit in Bradford. The fivesome displayed a hard-driving pulse and yearning, clear vocals. He believes that describing Indian youths as westernised is wrong, because despite outward westernisation, they have a deep yearning for Indian culture. This yearning for a unifying heroic leader recurred repeatedly. Residents are yearning for quality services in their respective areas and this can only come about if these institutions are made smaller and efficient. 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. Nevertheless, Leanna Brodie in the title role gave a remarkably moving, heartfelt performance as a woman yearning for something real amid the tawdriness around her. And people are yearning for people they can believe in and trust. I was expecting to feel him bite, bracing myself for the burning sensation, afraid of it, but yearning for it more than anything I have yearned for in my life. 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 know you're yearning for more, but try to enjoy the friendship. It is a significant day for a nation and a region in need of, and yearning for, self-governance and an unshackling from dictatorships and oppression. Show More Sentences There's an, Oh, such a hungry yearning burning inside of me. But then he wants a car with a powerful engine and the yearning returns. The veil was lifted and the eyes moved in close, so close that I imagined I could see clear into her twenty-something spinster soul and the lonely yearning girl beyond. 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. Is there no unhappy David to whom I can sing the yearning psalms of love? 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. 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. Yet the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free did not always find what they expected in America. Being a stepchild, she noted, set her as an outsider within a family, and gave her a yearning to conform. Yet her sexual masochism is oddly mixed with non-erotic desires for an omnipotent caretaker, infantile wishes that parallel his yearning for divine love. 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. A time-honored and noble legacy is kept alive by a yearning for discovery and exploration. Finally, after years of ignoring this yearning deep inside, I made the decision that just for one day I would do the right thing and make it to minyan. There is clearly a yearning for singularization in complex societies. Paco's last words movingly express a yearning for a future to believe in. 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. 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. The sleeve link was tucked, before Morris's yearning eyes, into the reluctant pocket of the wide white waistcoat, and Morris returned to his place. As woo-woo as it sounds, you're yearning for a more spiritual experience of life, wherein daydreaming is a slice of daily bread. His yearning voice is laden with the characteristic microtonality of Arabic-influenced pop but uncoiled more snakily and with spine-tingling verve. Show More Sentences The story, told with precision and restraint, is full of yearning and quiet reflection. Is it just the ego's yearning for self-gratification that makes a person cling to the half-baked notion that every single human being is a unique individual? 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. A touching passage, one of the piece's several trios, casts the tiny, hoydenish Julie Tice as a childlike outsider yearning to be part of a teen-dream romance. Prasad began by producing a bouquet of flowers from thin air and proclaimed that it symbolised the yearning that every woman's life should glow like colourful flowers. 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. 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. I get lifted by yearning, as if I were going to melt into him again, then I awaken to reality and seek to quiet my feelings. Often the photographs are shot in bedrooms, next to a window with a curtain blowing from it, conveying the isolation of adolescence and the yearning for what lies beyond. 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. I think that yearning for one more thing is very much on my mind. The City, it seemed to her, knew it dimly, with a yearning faint as dawn's forelight, which grew stronger with each passing hour, inevitably. No I've not got all romantic with a yearning for sunkissed memories, I'm still on-message about saving money. It invites us to imagine that we humans are yearning for home, expressing a collective unconscious desire to return to our ancestral roots. It is the yearning of many who enter the monastic life to eventually become solitary hermits. These waferthins are topped with gold leaf, and will leave chocoholics yearning for more. Meanwhile, the concept of biophilia, or a human yearning to connect with the natural world, was evident in a few plant-oriented introductions. Viktor Zubkov, an obscure official, as the new prime minister of Russia has many analysts yearning for the old days of Kremlinology. Zechariah and his wife Elizabeth are an aged couple yearning for a child, like Abraham and Sarah in Genesis. When he spoke, too, his voice was like an old man's, harsh, yearning, querimonious. Show More Sentences An image of excess weight may have symbolized a yearning for plenty and security. The effects of the rain conjure up the romantic yearning of the monsoon season, a theme that dominates Indic poetry. The topography of Wales in general, and the south east in particular, makes it an ideal location for anyone with a yearning to fly hang gliders, paragliders or sailplanes. But why are the heaven-bathed souls consumed by the yearning to sleep, to embrace the narcotic, papaverous hymns of Orpheus to Night and Sleep, to leave being for becoming? That temptation seems to be universal with its yearning for some kind of irrepresentable nirvana and for the regression to the inorganic that accompanies it. Deep-rooted feelings of inferiority, overwhelming sense of failure, and yearning for life meaning are daily components of many African Americans in the inner dries. Its main content is a divine melody, a yearning prayer from the heart of the great Redeemers which enraptures the soul and mind with its ensouling divine essence. Examples from Classical Literature As an inevitable result of all the influences that constitute his world he finds himself yearning for meliorism as the crownpiece. In the Atharva-Veda Kama does not mean sexual desire, but rather the yearning after the good of all created things. Bexley cast a strangely yearning look on the pale, suffering face of his master. It seems as if the travail and yearning of his mother had passed upon him as a birthmark. An anguishing desire for the safe and wholesome Present usurped all this mad yearning to obtain the Past. Shall we find in their artwork any of that pensiveness and yearning for the dead, which fills the chants of their tragedy? Besides, is not the yearning for the divine simply a desire to behold the divinity? He must appreciate the yearning of the American heart after self-direction. But this yearning after self-direction, it seems to me, is not peculiar to Americans. The yearning yet selfless love which it expressed was not for my eyes to witness. If the yearning of a fleshly love is gone, you are without love, without obligation. All my yearning for the strange, the weird, the ghostlike is gratified in dreams. It is evident that the nation is yearning for singable songs in the 'Arry dialect. They who had once beheld its splendor were inthralled with an unutterable yearning to possess it. He had come there so joyously, in such yearning, merely to receive a final dismissal. Somber figures danced in a saraband of shadows to a yearning melody of Tschaikovsky. It was the face of a young and lovely girl which returned St. udo's yearning, questioning gaze with a sweet, free smile. They manifold their being and their emotions because of a blind and uncreative yearning for the universal and infinity. His spirit was cool and thoughtful, unheated by the feverish yearning after increased possessions. In the midst of an artistic life there arises again and again the yearning for real life, which remains an unrealizable ideal. Show More Sentences It is not difficult to detect in the oligarchical Church polity of the fourth and fifth centuries a yearning for unity. He glanced across the river as though he were yearning to accept the invitation. The tragic yearning her whole body expressed, as she held the baby close, arrested the boy's attention, filled him with clamoring uneasiness. I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyze my faculties and to clog my very soul. The big blacksmith stood in scowling indecisions his face pathetic in its fierce yearning, his hands making unconscious, clutching contractions. Billy followed the swimmers with his eyes, yearning after them so undisguisedly that Mrs. Yours, I trust, as the mistress of Lowick, will not leave any yearning unfulfilled. I do not know of any poetry to quote which adequately expresses this yearning for the Wild. She finds that a yearning for the simpler domesticity of the past links up with activism, altruism and creativity within context. With such deep yearning in his soul, he was unfit for heaven. The third man is very fat, with a round, red, sentimental nose, and he plays with his eyes turned up to the sky and a look of infinite yearning. But the yearning notes are very far away, and the noisy, blustering world is always bellowing so loud it drowns the dreamlike melody. He knew that a yearning glance fell upon him, now and then, through a film of tears, but he refused recognition of it. But the yearning towards the parent country is too strong to be overcome. Into his eyes leaped a wistfulness and a yearning as promptly as the yearning leaps into the eyes of a starving man at sight of food. Besides, Juneau was in Alaska, and her yearning took the form of a desire to see that wonderland. Adding spice to the tale is the mutual yearning of Anna and her former fiance, Abraham Woodhull, in their small Long Island town. His lyric, set dancing is intimate, while theirs is the official stage jig or yearning for lace-curtain, social respectability. His heart ached with yearning more intense than any that he could recall. The idea is that of a movement of yearning after an unattained good. Show More Sentences We found ourselves yearning for that beauty which is unconfined. Within every peptide, quark and corpuscle is a yearning for good. Yin is the story of that mystic's quest for a soul mate, a yearning answered by a Galapagos tortoise brought over from across the great Pacific as a tiny baby. His reason was unseated by the blind yearning of the flesh to exist and move, at all hazards to move, to continue to move, for movement was the expression of its existence. Tom, who had the soft, impressible nature of his kindly race, ever yearning toward the simple and childlike, watched the little creature with daily increasing interest. I'd been hunting through here when I was a boy, on vacations from college, and when I was all down and out it seemed a yearning came to me to go back to the country. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of yearning? Words that rhyme with yearning What is the plural of yearning? What is the adverb for yearning? What is the adjective for yearning? What is the noun for yearning? Translations for yearning Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words yearn for yearner yearned for yearned yearn yearly yearningly yearnings yearns year old year-on-year year-over-year 8-letter Words Starting With y ye yea year yearn yearni yearnin