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To yearning

verb

To long, have a strong desire (for something).

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There are limits to yearning for its own sake.

His songs of east London melancholy, bombastic hip-hop and odes to yearning love may come from a different place but it worked perfectly on a wounded Sydney.

With multiple themes, his pieces move between public and private spheres, between modern urban bustle and intimate trysts; cerebral constructions give way to yearning melody.

It's the shady furniture guy who delivers the kind of wisdom that comes hard to yearning young women who want so badly things they can't possibly have earned yet.

He gave voice to yearning ("Low Life Kingdom"), nostalgia ("San Francisco") and a fitting wanderlust: "Caught between, between two worlds," he sang in "Voodoo Candle," a Son Volt song.

I realized how much Judaism for me was connected to yearning — to wanting what you don't have — which is maybe why Israel is so complicated emotionally for Jews: It's built into the emotional structure of our religion to yearn for a homeland we don't have.

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These complaints have given rise to "a yearning to upset the apple-cart", he says.

Miina is very shy, but she admitted to a yearning to look like a girl.

I began to yearn for slow travel.

But they still seemed to yearn for style.

At times he seems to yearn to be alone.

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