Sentence examples for by longing for 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.

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?

But, then, we are dealing with a character who expresses the daring rudeness of her newfound sexual liberation by eating a full English breakfast (all that dangerously greasy bacon!) and who later, in a cafe in an upmarket furniture store, reveals the untamed physical beast roaring within her by longing for "coarse" food -- sausages, baked beans on white toast.

Later in life (and early in the film), he is consumed by longing for his Sunim, but unable either to express his love for her or to find any tenderness for Hongja (Kim Yeo Jin), the tea shop waitress he eventually marries.

Those people are not as effective, because they're torn apart by longing for their spouses, and the policy destroys families.

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.

On her current album, "Impossible Dream" (ATO), Ms. Griffin grows more pensive than ever: mourning the state of the world, haunted by mortality, longing for love and refusing to lose hope.

The time is coming when the rising talent in Asia will leave the Americans, who led at one point by 17-10, longing for the days when success in the event was as much of a gimme as Woods's second putt on 18.

Having proved herself in The Artist to be a master of silent comedy – that ruthless, rigorous genre in which intense physical choreography is everything – Bejo applies the same precision to her portrayal of a character in flux, beset by confusion, longing for change.

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.