Sentence examples for a persistent longing from inspiring English sources
His disparate characters inevitably get twisted, often grotesquely, around a persistent longing for a reconstructed world.
Losing his father when he was 11, he grew up with a persistent longing, which has led him on a journey to bring his father's accomplishments to light.
Eventually we come to know, as Nick does, of his persistent longing for a woman from his past, the now-married Daisy Buchanan.
The genius of the George Booth cover (above) is that even the back of a Booth dog, within the context of patient persistent longing, is humanly expressive.
"Obviously the grass is always greener," a University of Colorado historian, Patricia Limerick, said in a phone conversation this week, speaking of the urbanites' persistent longing for someplace more rural and less intense than the big cities where they live.
Harrison often gives in to emotional cliché when she writes about sex -- her characters are likely to feel a certain nagging emptiness when they enter the sexual realm -- and Bigelow's persistent longing for access, through the Aleut woman's body, to "her deeper self, her deepest self" can put you in mind of an inspirational sex manual.
This condition describes chronic maladaptive grief responses, with a persistent sense of longing or yearning for the deceased being central to the diagnosis [ 6].
And like Instagram, we're just constantly filtering the present with the aesthetic of the past, revealing persistent longings to find ourselves -- that feeling to belong that we began in our teenage years.
Mychael Danna's moody, brooding score uses similarly extended strokes, rising and falling on a romantic undercurrent of intertwining themes, underpinning the action with a persistent sense of longing.
