Sentence examples for covert longing from inspiring English sources

The author links irresponsible Caribbean fatherhood to the bad old patterns of slavery, when men were only briefly allowed out of their barracks to impregnate women, but he also observes the men's covert longing for female friendship and tenderness.

This is not to say that there will be no more movies in which a bunch of dudes smoke weed, crack wise and give voice to their blatant terror of women and their covert homoerotic longings.

Long – and longing.

Lines from poems like "Photograph: Ice Storm, 1971" in her 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Native Guard highlight Tretheway's longing to reveal the covert emotions beneath a presumably innocent family snapshot.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

Frank, thirteen years old, spends his days longing for his fellow-patient Elsa, sharing covert smokes with the gardener, and writing poems on prescription pads.

And longing.

Stop your covert activities.

"No Covert".

Libraries generate longing.

Covert surveillance.