Sentence examples for also longing from inspiring English sources
It means hunger but also longing, and describes an emotion both positive and negative.
Like Brookner, Forster is concerned with mothers and daughters, and with the tensions suffered by women who feel a duty to their families while also longing for independence.
Phoenix today is a replicating sprawl that flows around bare mountains in the hope of linking with the sprawl sprawling sprawlingly out of Las Vegas, which is also longing for union.
The basic plot of Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket," from 1959 (playing at Film Forum on Aug. 20), is derived from that of "Crime and Punishment": an isolated and severe young man (Martin LaSalle) becomes a philosophical criminal who asserts his sense of superiority in larcenous acts while also longing to be caught.
In a beautifully produced edition with brooding and chaotic illustrations by Jim Kay, this is a short but searing story of opposites: a queen who can be both a good witch and a bad witch, a prince who can be a murderer and a saviour, a boy who wants his mother to live while also longing for her to die.
By David Denby The basic plot of Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket," from 1959 (playing at Film Forum on Aug. 20), is derived from that of "Crime and Punishment": an isolated and severe young man (Martin LaSalle) becomes a philosophical criminal who asserts his sense of superiority in larcenous acts while also longing to be caught.
"I'm overwhelmed with sadness and memories, but also with longing for my people and my family," he said.
I'm also not longing for the baby days -- though there is something genuinely sweet about holding a helpless baby whose needs are generally easily fulfilled -- I'm mostly content with the stage my boys are in now.
"His passport pictures," she said with a smile that also conveyed her longing.
Renoux also shows Pentheus longing to let free his inner anarchist as he somersaults on a trampoline behind his cage.
The small figures swarming toward him hungrily reach for the fruit he offers, but they also stare with longing at his dancer's figure and lamp-bright face.
