Sentence examples for a deep longing for from inspiring English sources

A deep longing for this past permeates every story.

Gwenno gave me "hiraeth", a Welsh word which loosely translates as a "deep longing for home".

Most importantly, Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine aroused a deep longing for revenge in the French people.

Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine after the Franco-German War aroused a deep longing for revenge in the French people.

Voters expressed wistfulness and even a deep longing for a man who was indifferent to the fates of nearly half the nation's residents.

2. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (1912, English translation 1925) In Venice, the honoured author Aschenbach acknowledges a deep longing "for nothingness".

A well of emotion rose in me, a deep longing like Mirasta's, but for what?

On his website, the author said this about the reason for the book: "In my travels I have found a deep longing in almost everyone: the desire for change, the hope that somehow God can wrest permanent good out of this flawed planet and us its flawed inhabitants.

This worked politically for Obama because it tapped into a deep longing in American life -- the longing on the part of whites to escape the stigma of racism.

We have a deep longing to pop out of the prison of our minds even for a brief respite.

It's such a deep longing.