Sentence examples for acute longing from inspiring English sources

It can, at times, give you an acute longing – sorrow.

Instead of being smothered by nostalgia, viewers garner a few ideas for holiday meals and an acute longing to create, in their own homes, the warm and fuzzy feeling that the show exudes.

The Independent:  "It was a Manchester spring evening that might have been dragged straight from the pages of Morrissey's recent memoirs: stupendous rain, acute longing and a dreadful sense of foreboding.

Limerence, a term coined by psychologist Dorothy Tennov in her 1979 book Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love, has been described as "an involuntary interpersonal state that involves an acute longing for emotional reciprocation, obsessive-compulsive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and emotional dependence on another person".

Schreck's ratlike teeth and distended eyes register a certain gloomy wit, and his fiendish appetite seems to be an acute, ardent form of longing.

Long – and longing.

Her faithful cover of Proserpina, one of the last songs McGarrigle wrote, is even more acute, an anguished wail of longing set to plangent piano and violin.

Mr. Anderszewski offered a daringly spacious account in which sensations of isolation and longing were almost too acute to bear.