And we learn that Dill and Willa Mae's relationship was a messy one, animated by longing and betrayal and resentment.
More subliminal currents of sexual attraction animate "Longing," an adaptation of two Chekhov stories at the Hampstead Theater.
Yet it's hard to spend any time with Williams's discography, which consists of thirty-one country-and-Western singles released over a six-year period (augmented, posthumously, by unissued material), and not be felled by the resignation and longing that animate his voice.
Before we all leap into the fray over that last one, Palmer's definition of the spiritual aspect of self will be reassuring: "the diverse ways we answer the heart's longing to be connected with the largeness of life a longing that animates the love and work, especially the work called teaching" (p. 5).
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
A longing for adventure motivates the new animated feature from Pixar.
By David Denby A longing for adventure motivates the new animated feature from Pixar.
In the latest animated short from the Dutch studio Job, Joris & Marieke, a woman longing to be a mother steals a child's imaginary friend.
From his 1996 debut, the shaggy-dog caper "Bottle Rocket," to the animated Roald Dahl adaptation "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (2009), loss and longing have been the cornerstones of his films, which almost invariably concern the melancholic plight of dreamers and depressives, yearning for past glories, vanished innocence, a world that matches the one in their heads.
The angel on my right shoulder suggests something like this: "Bird Cloud" is a mildly animated and knotty book about displacement and loss, about a late-life longing to carve out a place that's truly one's own.
