I was Esther Summerson, longing for a mother who had abandoned me long ago due to circumstances beyond her control.
With Francis longing for paternal affection, she pursued every means she could come up with of trying to locate Bob.
It finds Obama longing for, choosing and constructing his blackness even as he examines his mixed heritage.
Other TV critics seem to take similar views, with The Telegraph's Ben Lawrence longing for the "unpretentious whodunit" of the original series and predicting a "bitter disappointment".
The captain's stubborn wife, Anna Maja Ostaszewskaa), longing for his return, goes to live with his parents in Nazi-occupied western Poland.
The lustrous final track, "00000 Million," is just Vernon, a piano, and a faint sample of the Irish folksinger Fionn Regan longing for "where the days have no numbers".
More typically, the real Derek's vegetarianism leads to a running gag about Kevin longing for burgers, and to many obnoxious plugs for his favorite place, "Mickey D's". That Sinbad survives with his dignity and comic reputation intact is amazing.
Like Burke longing for a thousand swords to leap from their scabbards to protect Marie Antoinette, Elliott is outraged that "not a single chevalier would set fire to the convention" that voted for the king's downfall.
Here Dante comes off as a mopey egotist, a poetic rebel, a 14th-century prototype of William Blake or even Allen Ginsberg, longing for the looser meter of free verse and finding God under every stone and olive tree.
In the center group -- the Sunnis, who profited most from Saddam's dictatorship -- we see mostly a sullen population, its Baathist diehards allied with an affiliate of Al Qaeda longing for regime restoration.
A pre-taped segment featured the likes of Eddie Redmayne, Chris Rock, Lena Dunham, and Joel McHale longing for the gig as well as Jay Leno putting Corden through TV host boot camp.
