Sentence examples for by yearning from inspiring English sources

The play is defined by yearning.

Although leavened by a mixture of daft and deadpan humour, Stevens's songwriting is defined by yearning, loss and fear of abandonment.

The title is untroubled by yearning; there is no sense that the Long Island Expressway, unlike the Road to Samarkand, will guide you to a better place.

Written by Kipling in 1904, "They" is remarkable for its depth of feeling, and its benevolent ghosts drawn out of the ether by yearning and grief.

So it's possible also to think of Aeschylus' Prometheus, bound in punishment to his rock, or Wagner's dying Tristan, protesting about the sun (and this world) and consumed by yearning for the night of death.

I had a great deal of freedom – the most I have ever had, in retrospect – but it was also a time characterised by yearning (which I now think often accompanies an unrecognised surplus of freedom).

I counted down the days one-by-one, yearning to return to training, and finally I convinced my mom to send me back after promising to only do what I was allowed to.

Their relationships are defined by sexual yearning, but also by neglect, betrayal and violence.

Roper wasn't betrayed by their yearning: he was betrayed by his own.

Was he motivated by money alone, or by a yearning to join an élite in-crowd of drinkers?

Our demand is not motivated by a yearning for power, but by the aspiration that the next elections are guaranteed against falling prey to the same machinations and manipulations.