Sentence examples for great yearning from inspiring English sources

Kerrie Young's great yearning in life was to be a rock star.

El Greco's apocalypticism, in which stable, physical forms dissolve in a great yearning, becomes Picasso's anti-Newtonian universe.

There must have been great yearning and repression in Mohamed Atta's life; it is the torment of Atta's generation.

"There is a great yearning on the part of the Iranian people to restore and re-establish relationships with the U.S. and the West," Mr. Cheney said.

With the incomparable Audra McDonald playing Julie Jordan to Mr. Jackman's Billy Bigelow, "If I Loved You" -- that great yearning duet of awkward courtship -- never sounded more affecting.

As someone who has lived with the weight of great grief and great yearning for my now departed daughter for only TWO years, 500 years seems a VERY long time.

While immersive theatre has been around since the 19th century, the popularity of these newer productions speaks, perhaps, to a greater yearning for connection and catharsis among theatregoers and rubberneckers, in an era where we are urged to "collect experiences" rather than things.

Obama's greatest yearning as president was to bridge divides.

And yet God's greatest yearning is for connection - for something in which to be in relationship and to experience love.

He probably never went back to the land, no matter how great the yearning.

Trust in government is down, but that great human yearning to belong continues.