"desperate yearning" is a correct expression in written English.
You can use it in a variety of ways to describe a powerful longing or craving, particularly an intense or urgent one. For example, "There was a note of desperate yearning in her voice as she begged him to stay."
There is a desperate yearning for closure in the Lawrence case.
He conveys Cooper's bravado and pioneer spirit as well as his desperate yearning for the children he left behind.
By the same token, a sense of innate superiority is the flip side to the desperate yearning for reputation.
"There is a desperate yearning almost everywhere in the country, but certainly here, for some middle position".
I am always horrified at the contestants' desperate yearning for fame and wealth and inability to deal with losing.
Desperate yearning will erupt into urgent kissing, ideally in heavy rain (or, in this case, an outdoor shower, under which the smoochers stand fully clothed).
While I wouldn't say this ever made me jealous, it may have contributed to the desperate yearn I felt for my own sibling (my parents didn't have any other children).
It's possible to hear this as functional, energetic rock music, but more engaged listening reveals something primal in these howls, something desperate and yearning.
He and Ogden are in constant motion, and where his dancing is deep and grounded, she is all nervy verticality, her staccato phrasing echoing the flutter of Juliet's heart, and her flying temps levés and scissoring jetés expressive of her desperate adolescent yearning.
Harold Ford's problem was that he announced his candidacy himself, then claimed to be answering the call of desperate people yearning for his leadership in these trying times.
Her lyrics, she said with a smile, are "all about love": yearning, desperate, ardent, transcendent.
