Sentence examples for extreme longing from inspiring English sources
I have empathy for both of them because I realize that extreme actions are byproducts of extreme longing.
I sense the commonality of extremes longing for a time when the rich won't keep getting richer behind our backs while we mostly lose our local, small scale advantage, our time with loved ones, our reflections at the end of the day.
("At the extreme, the longing to rise can become desperate or monomaniacal").
Portnoy's infamous complaint was neither his masturbatory inclination nor the immoderate attentions of a Jewish mother but — in the book's quasi-medical definition — "a disorder in which strongly felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings".
He is profoundly alienated, not least because he inhabits a world of rejection slips, indefinite longings, extreme aesthetic sensitivity and (in the words of a friend) "passionate nihilism".
– Christine, 52, London Like Steinem, I've experienced relief that my episodes of extreme romantic and sexual longing have lessened.
The longing for extreme thinness, for the self-annhilation of starvation, is not rational.
The craving for new buildings that look old, the ludic delight in Jules Verne technofuture tales projected by publications like Wired magazine: these apparent extremes satisfy nostalgic longings for an unrecoverable 19th-century view of ourselves in relation to time.
The twenty-nine-year-old artist has a show at the Chocolate Factory, July 16-18, called "The Black Death," a song cycle that, as he puts it, "traces landscapes of longing caused by extreme dehumanization".
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
