Sentence examples for growing longing from inspiring English sources

By giving us an ending, Mr Sinker satisfies our growing longing for closure in the infinite sprawl of the web.

In the midst of 19th-century urbanization grew longing to connect with nature.

Poor but socially ambitious, Frances had grown up longing for the kind of life that Reed could provide: horses, servants, a grand but tasteful place to live.

Satirical yet affectionate, the novel draws on Mitford's own upbringing, and provides a sepia portrait of what it meant to grow up longing for romance among the 1930s landed gentry.

Since my childhood was spent in the context of division and loss, I grew up longing for unity and abhorring war.

Many of the standard trimmings are in place, including a mental asylum, a forbidden basement, and a batch of shifty gentlemen in white tie and tails, but you can spend so long trying to gauge whether the movie counts as period drama, pornography, or pastiche that, as with a Nabokov novel like "Ada," you barely notice that the air has grown warm with longing.

I know they will grow up longing for just one more embrace.

I was a teenage girl, a growing mass of longing, and Paris was accommodating.

The growing weariness and longing to be home.

They had a kind of honesty to them that made me wish that, rather than spending my days filling out council tax forms and peeling passive-aggressive post-it notes from my fridge, I was actually outside, longing to grow up but not quite knowing how to do it.

After eight long seasons of longing and growing to love one another, "Bones" fans finally got the proposal they'd been waiting for.