It can express the longing to shed inhibition, as if living life to its fullest meant dispensing with socially constraining rules.
Thin, fat, round, flat, the Mesa, Arizona-based illustrator says that his largely improvised works are, "figures and symbols to express the longing for an unknown past and the pervading rootless confusion of the present".
There was no need to have characters burst into song to express the longings they couldn't fulfill -- musical numbers suddenly seemed superfluous, silly and old-fashioned.
One day, seven months after the day I was running with Meg and saw Robert Woodworth's house and expressed the longing to live in it, two young people came to look at our house.
And there were movies like "Saving Private Ryan" and "Pearl Harbor" that perhaps expressed the longing of a nation bored with material surfeit for a return of heroism and a moral rallying point.
Together, they express the romantic longing of Tchaikovsky's score to perfection, and all else is forgotten.
But Ms. Testud, a rising star in France (Benoît Jacquot's "Sade," Chantal Akerman's "Captive"), fills in the blanks, using every resource of her remarkable face to express the confusion, the longing and the desperation of a young woman faced with an unexpected opportunity to change her life.
Moreover, if couturiers, like poets, express the subconscious longings of their peers, France's particularly tricky record of collaboration may have been all the more conducive to a nostalgia for a safely distant past: the guiltless hedonism of La Belle Époque was an ideally soothing choice.
If he does express the pain of longing, his emotion unleashes a monster.
In abstract art, he found a way to express the pain and longing those frames hid.
Sitting in her living room in Claremont, where she is a professor at Pomona College, the 51-year-old poet relies on laughter as punctuation, a way to express the physical force, the longing, of a dislocation that can never fully be put into words.
