Sentence examples for element of longing from inspiring English sources

One important element of longing is that the object of one's desire is always just out of reach or, when consummated, will quickly move out of reach again.

It's blues: long and full of longing.

Yet while the banality undercuts the element of the sublime, this artist's work is full of a sense of longing for what's been lost.

The Andromeda, a sudden pang of longing.

But there is also a feeling of longing for what was before.

I suppose I began the story out of longing.

The sense of longing that haunts the play — "Love me.

He was confused, despairing, full of longing for his homeland.

It inspired a form of longing.

The stolen cash is a tantalus of longing.

I had a moment of longing for New York sidewalks.