Sentence examples for expression of longing from inspiring English sources
It's tempting to imagine Obama's Nobel as a bit of wishful thinking, an expression of longing for a conceptual America whose time has passed.
Her awareness of the relationship between song structure and emotional through-line helped her to turn a beautifully sung version of Cole Porter's "In the Still of the Night" into a fully realized expression of longing that dissolves into fear.
In "A Life's Work," a 2001 memoir of becoming a mother, Rachel Cusk writes that after her daughter's birth her "appetite for the world was insatiable, omnivorous, an expression of longing for some lost, pre-maternal self, and for the freedom that self had perhaps enjoyed, perhaps squandered".
In a final expression of longing, Nuñez stands on Soares's thigh with her back arched and her arms winging behind her like the figurehead of a ship.
It's an expression of longing, in part, for a glorious past, one in which the federal government played a less dominant role in the nation's economy; and for a moment in which markets, by themselves, functioned well enough to keep society on a trajectory of ever-greater affluence.
With the virtuosic brilliance of his English Baroque Soloists and the splendour of the Monteverdi Choir, he made Bach's plea for peace in the Dona Nobis Pacem a musical expression of longing, a single arc of hope that capped an interpretation of spiritual depth and expressive power.
Even so, these expressions of longing get under the skin.
Split off into small groups or large brigades, they tour the country and perform songs in mass patterns somewhat resembling cheerleading formations, but with disconcerting expressions of longing.
Hanging from the branches of this crape myrtle are dozens of tiny papers flickering in the wind, each inscribed with often-poetic expressions of longing.
They expressed feelings of longing for their family and friends who were either living far away or had died.
"We initially interpreted the song as an expression of the longing a person feels when they are on the road for an extended time," Solar Cabin's Jason Denton tells Creators.
