An orange-clad crowd yearning for a Flyers sweep instead might have witnessed the revival of the N.H.L.'s most dangerous team.
Is it nirvana we are seeking, or are we drowning in the ocean of the lonely crowd, yearning for a connection to something greater than ourselves?
When O'Rourke finished his speech, he had to work his way out of the building through a boisterous crowd yearning to touch him and (welcome to our era) come away with selfies.
Like Britain, America expects and in the New York crowd's yearning for a home victory in the men's event the burden has fallen squarely this week on Andy Roddick, the 2003 US Open winner who has enjoyed a resurgent season under the guidance of a new coach, Larry Stefanki.
But when the snarls and blank stares outnumber the smiles and encores, a crowd just yearning to be entertained can sense that disconnect.
Hull was clearly just too alien and inaccessible for the Covent Garden crowd, who yearn for something familiar like Oslo and Copenhagen.
The paper's target audience is the 18- to 30-something crowd, which yearns for stories they do not find elsewhere.
Yet his work is ambivalent, probing the idea of what constitutes a community: that same square also witnessed the only moment when a counter-crowd manifested itself, yearning for a secular country and calling for the release of city spaces from the church's domination.
The band has grown much surer of itself since it first went out on tour this spring, and its fans have warmed to the songs: After Mr. James finished "My Revolutionary Mind," a yearning waltz, the crowd erupted into cheers.
The fight's placement in Nebraska provided a vocal pro-Crawford crowd, but he said he yearned for expanding his reach by going to the Garden or Las Vegas, where he defeated Viktor Postol in his first pay-per-view main event in 2016.
The crowd is a wraparound millipede of rage and yearning, with the body heat of 180,000 torched armpits, with its ear-hurting roars, and that incensed whistling like a billion babies joined in one desperate scream.
