Sentence examples for Profound longing from inspiring English sources

In 1891 he attacked the British press for presenting Iranian protesters against the Shah as Islamic fanatics when, in fact, they articulated a profound longing for reform.

She reads Martin Buber's stories of the Baal Shem Tov and feels a profound longing for the ancestral home she's never seen, the villages of Ukraine where she imagines Judaism to have been practiced with a fervency, purity and spiritual power absent in the Austria of her present-day life.

From the vantage point of the disenchanted twenty-first century, it's strange to hear monogamy described as "Paradise" ("One girl for my dreams, / One partner in Paradise, / This promise of Paradise — / This nearly was mine"), but when the words billow up under the wave of profound longing in Rodgers's waltz you believe them.

Bad behavior is often driven by deep-seated insecurity, self-loathing, fear, and/or a profound longing to be loved.

It describes a deeply emotional state of nostalgia, a profound longing for something or someone absent, and a melancholic awareness of the transience of nature.

They were granted Mauritian citizenship, but the sad conditions, lack of jobs and discrimination they faced from locals — who taunted them as savages and mocked their accents — contributed to a profound longing for their homeland.

The relationships that people have with the celebrities who inhabit their imagination express profound longings, and help to fulfil them too.

If you see only the bad in religion, then you miss all the biggest questions, the most profound longings, the deepest fears and the greatest aspirations that define us.

"Saudade," the famous Portuguese word that has no apt translation, could be described as a profound state of longing for something you love.

Its status as a pop culture icon would not have been reached or have lasted for decades if it didn't speak to a profound, even poetic, longing within Americans.

Duende is an almost untranslatable word that refers to the sensation of man's struggle with death, a kind of profound loneliness and longing deep in the soul, the very sensation that always drove me, in utter fear and hope, to take lovers, to cry out into the night, to pray for redemption.