Sentence examples for elusive longing from inspiring English sources

They did it not out of physical hunger, but to satiate a deeper, more elusive longing: the desperate desire for viral fame.

Many describe feeling caught between elusive longings for something different, more purposeful, as opposed to settling for what they've become.

They feel caught between elusive longings for something different and more purposeful, as opposed to settling for what they have acquired in their relationship, their lifestyleor their work.

But others hold their shape and summon an elusive mood of longing within the sonic wonderment.

Long – and longing.

Because the game is, as the ad says, free to download – it's only when you're playing, longing for an elusive "colour bomb", that you might be willing to pay King the few pence it'd take to get one.

We've all experienced the monotony of eating with the same people over and over again, or getting caught in tourist-trap restaurants while traveling, longing for that elusive home-cooked meal with local fare.

He gets inside people, and he festers there, sparking longings too intense and elusive to satisfy, desires too abstract and ethereal to fulfil, a sense of escape, transcendence, revelation, and ecstasy so deep it can seem to trivialise ordinary life, and thus trivialise whoever has to live that life, which is to say anyone.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

Millman's subject matter is her past — her memories of friends and family, material longings, professional struggles, and "those elusive happenstances that often lead to defining moments in our lives".

Millman's subject matter is her past—her memories of friends and family, material longings, professional struggles, and "those elusive happenstances that often lead to defining moments in our lives".