Even so, among a generation of students unformed by British rule, grievances about ordinary things like housing and poor job prospects have created a yearning for democracy.
The e-mailing and text messaging boom set postcards back, but those same electronic media have created a yearning for tangibility.
Disaffection with the political mainstream in the America of the 1990s had created a yearning for white-hatted outsiders as potential presidential candidates: the billionaire businessman Ross Perot, who ran in 1992 and 1996; the anti-politician, Steve Forbes, whose signature proposal was to radically simplify America's byzantine tax code.
Confusion and uncertainty creates a yearning for strongman rule.
It's also unusual in that the backing vocals by Tessa Niles almost make it a duet, with the two voices creating a sultry, yearning intensity.
"Years of mass production and copycat trends have created a huge yearning for truly personal style and looks, without the boundaries of supposed perfection".
Liu, an M.I.T. graduate and former McKinsey consultant, argues that Chinese today are yearning to create a new national identity, one that merges traditional Chinese values, like balance, respect and flow, with its modern urban reality.
Its birth stemmed from Mexico's desire to be included in regional talking-shops, and from a general symbolic yearning to create a club that includes Cuba as a full member.
Inside the Titans' locker room is a blend of athletes yearning to create a legacy after falling short four years ago in a 23-16 loss to the St . LouisRams in Super Bowl XXXIV and losing to the Oakland Raiders in the A.F.C. title game last season.
Not just any film, of course, but one carefully selected in order to create a mood of ineffable romantic yearning in the midst of which a lady might be given to yield her all: Disney's Flubber, the 1997 remake of The Nutty Professor starring Robin Williams.
