"first yearning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a strong feeling of want or desire for something. Example: When she saw the beautiful sunset, she felt her first yearning to go travelling.
Along with the standard politician's urge to be liked, there is, I think, a second yearning – the columnist's itch to be interesting.
They spent a couple of weeks talking nonstop, and the conversation soon touched on their dreams: one wanted to have command of his own squadron, another wanted to be an academic, the third yearned to be a military attache in an embassy.
With its second-person yearning and simple central image — blue, the color, as the object of unquenchable desire — "Bluets" has the force of a perfect pop song.
With its second-person yearning and simple central image — blue, the color, as the object of unquenchable desire — "Bluets"_ _has the force of a perfect pop song.
There's a lot of talk these days about the ideals of the American Revolution, but historian Jill Lepore says the Tea Party isn't the first to yearn for the past.
Mr Blair was not the first to yearn for an influence bigger than Britain's now-diminished status justifies, and he is unlikely to be the last: David Cameron says reflexively that he wants Britain to "punch above its weight".
But there is no indication that this is a pro-Kremlin fifth column, yearning to undermine the EU.
A second generation yearns for a country it has never seen.
At first, for those yearning for a tight race, Election Day seemed a flop.
"Tacea la notte placida," the nocturnally yearning first aria, flickered out rather than smoldered in the bottom range.
