In "Beginners," the dying father looks past his yearning son to ask a hospice nurse to stiffen his hair with gel, which he's never tried before.
You expect something like the former lovers facing the ways they've changed and the decisions they've made in "Sight Unseen" or the son yearning for his dying father's approval in "Brooklyn Boy".
Which is exactly what [Campbell] says in the hero's journey -- which is, if you don't accept the yearning, you end up dying inside.
I create because I know I'll die, because I yearn for infinity?
Fashion Week has long been a culmination of starving souls yearning, aching and damn near dying to be noticed.
The concept of spouses dying together seems to tap into a dark romantic yearning that crosses cultures and generations.
Mr. Rubin said, "There are an untold number of souls out there just dying to connect, and we want to convey that yearning.
Her heroine, who has dying parents and a sick husband, is frank about her yearning for youth: "I hate, hate, hate getting older".
So it's possible also to think of Aeschylus' Prometheus, bound in punishment to his rock, or Wagner's dying Tristan, protesting about the sun (and this world) and consumed by yearning for the night of death.
Michael Lavigne has chosen the dying days of that era — the mid-1990s — as the setting for his ambitious novel about the yearning for homeland and spiritual fulfillment.
