Sentence examples for by longing from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hosokawa's dreamy and unsettling opera, about two sisters who, long after their deaths, continue to be tormented by longing for the lover they once shared, is a work of subtlety and mystery.

And we learn that Dill and Willa Mae's relationship was a messy one, animated by longing and betrayal and resentment.

From The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark (Viking) Unhooked by longing, my body arched towards him.

Mr Blair can draw on an impressively large contingent of lickspittle MPs, but many of these are too paralysed by longing for advancement to make a good impression.

Sometimes we can't tell the good guys from the bad guys: Is the Mark Zuckerberg of "The Social Network" a visionary or a scoundrel — or a latter-day Gatsby consumed by longing for an unattainable woman?

O'Brien's folk are washed by longing rather than regret, and find friendships in unusual corners; they may not seek redemption, but their author is forgiving enough to grant it to them anyway.

Heat is added to this unfortunate dynamic by investors longing for asset appreciation and by wealthy philanthropists inadvertently subsidizing unsustainable population growth in their quest to address recalcitrant human welfare problems.

Kathleen Supové, a pianist of flamboyantly stagey inclinations, is integral to "Removable Parts," a heartbreaking work inspired by people longing to become amputees.

This is an attempt by those longing for an Age of Dis-Enlightenment to do an end run against him -- and against the will of the majority of Americans.

The normally explosive Watts is withdrawn this time, her face hardened by anger and longing.

It is a novel full of abandonment: the places where love should be are haunted instead by desolation and longing to belong.