It suggests a longing for something big, genuine and heartfelt.
There is a longing for something not contemporary in me, and in many people of course.
Really it's about a longing for something otherworldly, a transcendent state of mind".
This is not so much nostalgia as it a sense of saudade — a longing for something that is absent.
Murph and Bartle are small-town boys from Virginia, boys with "small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams".
Gospodinov's tuga is "a longing for something that hasn't happened … a sudden realization that life is slipping away and that certain things will never happen to you, for a whole list of reasons — personal, geographical, political".
The whole theatre is united by a longing for something too complex to define: nostalgia for afternoons spent reading, a reminder of childhoods gone by.
Prayer is allowing oneself to be thirsty; it is a longing for something we just cannot seem to find.
"I think that nostalgia is a longing for something in the past — it airs more on the romantic side.
He says that somewhere inside all of us is a longing for something more, a knowing that your soul's path is calling out to you.
I started my business out of that desperate place we all know and a longing for something greater in my life.
