Sentence examples for express our longing from inspiring English sources
The words "golden age" tend to give me a pain; they're an easy way to express our longing for simpler, more familiar things and our wish to punish what confounds or alienates us.
Working with poets across Europe, Vermeersch said: We wanted to reclaim Europe, to express our collective dreams and longings.
In the context of China's crackdown on cultural expression, Ms. Cao's juvenilia seems to express a longing for some basic adult freedoms.
One by one, my students express their longing and their sense of loss as they get ready to leave this place.
When their marriage falters, she toys with a younger man ("this in a country where even widows and abandoned wives dared not express any longing for men").
It can express the longing to shed inhibition, as if living life to its fullest meant dispensing with socially constraining rules.
But he longs for these things just the same, and his creative triumph is that he has found his own musical and lyrical language to express that longing.
The "decline of the West" is a theme exploited by those who use it to express resentment, longing for revenge or blatant hostility.
Some artists selected for the show in Hunterdon also play on sentimentality, using childhood imagery to express a longing for a time of innocence, simplicity and purity.
There is not even unanimity on the superiority of Judeo-Christian culture: some European nationalists express a longing for ancient pagan practices.
