Sentence examples for expressed longing from inspiring English sources

At the same time mothers expressed longing for the baby who died and the need to acknowledge their maternal bond.

Gorgeous passages of dance bloom throughout, expressing longing and frustration in ways that words cannot.

Finally, the artists in the catalog just sound different from those in the West, whether they are expressing longing for a culture perceived as lost or mingled excitement and exasperation about the one that confronts them in China today.

"I think it is possible for artists to speak about history and memory without expressing longing for a lost past.

Critics have connected the intense love songs expressing longing and loss on Freewheelin to Dylan's fraught relationship with Rotolo.

Suspended in the gap between life and death, it expresses longings that owe more to Sufism than any Western tradition".

Ms. Levitt expressed a longing for unique dining in the food court -- which now offers vendors like Au Bon Pain, Master Wok and Nathan's Famous.

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.

Still trying to match form to vision, he expresses his longing for spiritual regeneration in pared-down verse forms that are almost abstract patterns of musical and symbolic allusiveness.

The last AB, called kharjah, or markaz, is usually written in vernacular Arabic or in the Spanish Mozarabic dialect; it is normally rendered in the voice of a girl and expresses her longing for her absent lover.