His father would not have been so driven and demanding, longing for Cuba on the one hand and hounding his children to become American successes on the other.
It's not just audiences who are driven by this longing to recapture the past.
…My interpretation of the prodigal spirit is a broad one — yes, at times it's wasteful and disloyal and insensitive to others, but it's also driven by unanswerable longing and by an inability to fit neatly into the life that was limned for you at birth.
The popularity of these movies is maybe driven by a longing for the positives that have disappeared: the Welsh miners did accept support from lesbians and gay men – and with a lot less trouble than in the Pride movie; white kids from Wigan did choose the music of black Detroit over the Osmonds and the Bee Gees.
Flint publishes an acclaimed novel (in this, his career differs notably from Lish's), and Martin attends a reading where a revelation about Flint's past allows him to see that his former teacher is also driven by "the longing of those who have been hated for what they are to be loved for what they have made".
We weren't hired to do this; it was driven from our longing to open up our current systems to different ideas and processes.
That inescapable id-driven longing, and the simultaneous fight to conquer it in the name of civilization, make this novel embody both fire and earth, substance and spirit.
Now, those kids are all grown up, and their nostalgia-driven longing for the iridescent drink caused them to wipe out Amazon's entire supply of $14 12-packs last year.
The dancers in "Luminata," another ensemble creation, seemed to be driven by erotic longings as they moved in front of and behind translucent panels.
The scene is typical Fadel, full of darkness and longing, and driven by a character moving through a penumbral, uncomprehending world.
