But the city liked him — A. J. Liebling described him as "unduly cheerful" — and his American host noticed that in the elevator of his hotel, on West Seventieth Street, an attractive girl glanced longingly at him.
"In the old place, basically every table or chair next to an electrical outlet was taken, and you had others glancing longingly at those seats," said John Donohue, the library's circulation supervisor, who has been with the system for 31 years.
When we have an opportunity for uninterrupted communication with our favourite people, on holiday, we will probably catch each other glancing longingly at the screens which have come to represent both connection (to our network) and escape (from the dullness of our day).
It's not so long since Dempsey apparently pined for Martins, playing balls into areas where the Nigerian once ran free; glancing longingly at the one dirty 'Martins 9' jersey left in the locker room; eating plates of spaghetti all on his own.
I'd often shake my head, drop my fork and glance longingly toward the exit.
As I have watched our celebrity-centric culture unfold and expand, I no longer glance back longingly at my little girl self standing on the edge of the tub with a hairbrush, singing into it like I would someday grow up to be Barbra Streisand.
The Cantata itself – Honegger's last work, composed when he was terminally ill – glances longingly and tenderly at ideas of new beginnings before gradually retreating towards its final, spiritually ambiguous silence.
One of them, at far right, turns his head away in disdain, while another, at left, glances longingly out of one eye.
Around me the audience coughed politely into their hands, retied their shoes, glanced longingly out the plate-glass window at the cold night.
Mr. Soulas looked longingly at the dog.
