Sentence examples for expresses a longing from inspiring English sources

Woody Allen's "Magic in the Moonlight" expresses a longing for, and a skepticism toward, the supernatural.

"Magic" expresses a longing to believe in the supernatural, and an equally powerful longing to disbelieve in it.

For the respected daily Frankfurter Allgemeine, it expresses "a longing to put right the barbarity of the past".

Based on exquisitely perceived sense impressions, the imagery in these poems expresses a longing for sensual union with the natural world.

So now Woody Allen, Wynton Marsalis and Robert De Niro are appearing in a promotional video for France being shown to American travel writers in which Mr. Allen expresses a longing for French fries and a preference for French kissing.

At the same time, however, she expresses a longing to look different that she currently does (at least some of the time), particularly relative to "fitting in clothes," suggesting that she is perhaps less satisfied with her body/self in non-CrossFit contexts.

In the context of China's crackdown on cultural expression, Ms. Cao's juvenilia seems to express a longing for some basic adult freedoms.

Several expressed a longing for the kind of oversight and assistance the state offers, and were eager to talk shop.

While Ms. Opie may bristle at the word "normal," she has created a domestic ideal that she expressed a longing for in her earliest self-portrait.

Kandahar's residents today expressed a longing for peace and high hopes for Mr. Karzai and a new goal of national unity.

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.