Certainly, you might point to his decision to let Brody live at the end of season two, or his anger over Saul letting Carrie fall into the mitts of Javadi in season three, but I chalked those down to routine human compassion, rather than the result of any particular longing for Carrie.
Sittenfeld gravitates toward affluent female narrators who spiral, ruminate, and self-sabotage; they drive big cars, work in law or architecture, and unironically invoke "the particular longing of an Ivy League campus at dusk".
Gifford's postwar work came to have a particular quality of longing, as if for a quieter, more peaceful time and place.
There's nothing unhealthy about missing a particular person, but longing becomes most painful when you believe that being happy or content depends on having him or her around.
Mr. Short died of leukemia last March 21 at age 80. Others who came had little or no connection to Mr. Short, just an intense longing for a particular item.
The mental wish for sex – either a specific enthusiasm to be erotically connected with another being, a desire to masturbate or a more general longing without a particular object – can precede, follow or be simultaneous with actual physiological arousal.
The struggle songs that the students now sing did not merely capture the longings of a particular moment in time.
Each of us in different ways hadexperienced a longing to produce a particular show – or to work in a particular way – and found that, for one reason or another, we couldn't achieve it.
Teachers who possess this attitude do not try to mould their pupils in a particular way, but rather have "a longing to help the child in its own battle".
That day in my meditation room, as I let the loneliness cut more deep, scarcely able to bear the searing pain of it, I realized that I was longing -- not for a particular person, but for love itself.
Both the realization of the insurmountable fissure as well as the longing for its reconciliation are part of a particular way of experiencing nature, the self and the infinite.
