Soon, struck with wonder at a deeper rumbling and rushing sounds like a torrent, I thirsted with great longing for the wider rivers of eloquence.
At the center of the human spirit there is a great longing for peace.
And as for the rôti, de la Reyniere speaks with great longing for the mingling of "the quintessence of the plain, the forest, the marsh, and the barnyard".
"When you live in the middle of this hustle-bustle, and you have a lot of responsibilities and demands on you, you naturally have a greater longing for it".
By turns psych-folk, pop, jazz and R&B, with persistent strains of calypso and steel drums, they build a song cycle that tells of the particular joys and hopelessness of island life, its tragedies and disappointments, a yearning for better, and a great heartfelt longing for a sweetheart named Patricia.
And the more we relegate communication to the electronic realm, the greater our longing for face-to-face contact.
At the risk of sounding like my great-grandmother, longing for the good ol' days, I can't help but think back on simpler times when people would come home from work, throw their mail down on the counter, check their answering machine for messages and call it a day.
There is, I suspect, a great actor here longing for a great director.
Great gusts of longing for something wilder and wider, whatever the risk, blow through The Wind in the Willows, as they stirred among many of Grahame's contemporaries.
Vincent Chase parallels many spoiled protagonists in great American fiction, longing for a treasure that keeps slipping from his grasp: which in Entourage plays more like "Will Vince do the movie?" "Oh, he's looking like he won't do the movie!" "Oh cool, he's doing the movie!" Vincent Chase is Gatsby and international stardom is his Daisy Buchanan.
Over and above the targets set for the programme itself, allowing women to take part in sailing sends a powerful signal to young Omanis longing for greater freedom.
