Sentence examples for Lost longing from inspiring English sources

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His eyes would follow them, with a lost longing, and he would think, You can work, you are legal, you are visible, and you don't even know how fortunate you are.

It dealt with some of my favorite sad topics such as love, love lost, longing, and conflict.

The Lost Longing of the Soul.

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My father had died of cancer that year, and I'd been wandering around our house like a lost soul, longing for something to hang on to — something that wouldn't vanish.

Every so often he allows himself some lavish, graphic sexual writing, as though challenging us to read these descriptions any differently from his scenes of longing for lost family homes or missed landscapes.

Still, Lost in Showbiz is longing for any new instalments, in which Rubina will hopefully deploy that faux-naif tone to praise Nicole's eerily calm expression, perhaps along the lines of: "I call Nicole the happy lady because she never frowned.

Long – and longing.

Her daughter died of smallpox (though there are differing versions of the story), and longing for her lost sons, Cynthia Ann followed.

I'm longing for the lost innocence of silly seasons past when we worried about nothing bigger than chip-stealing seagulls or great white sharks.

Remains of stilted walkways tell their story: how they walked over water between trees, longing for a lost land when the sea-god stole it, how they shouldered their children and fled with every creature that could crawl, run, fly, till time turned truth to myth.

The author's fierce longing for a lost 60's idealism comes through even when he is not dropping the name of his friend Jimi Hendrix or noting that he was the only white listener to a speech given by Stokely Carmichael.

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