The word 'hanker' is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means to have a strong or persistent feeling of longing or desire for something. For example, "He was always hankering for something more in life."
Those who hanker for a national incomes policy and full-throated Keynesianism, or (at the other end of the ideological spectrum) for a government that steps aside and leaves the labour market alone will be equally disappointed.
While kids will drink this, they might hanker after something less bitter, so it's more for marmalade lovers.
Yet he can't help but reject Sweden's social idealism, and even hanker after the tormenting certainties of his youth.
Some still hanker for the Suharto days but the growth of civil society in Indonesia raises hope that the country can avoid sliding back into authoritarianism.The success of Timor-Leste's presidential election is another promising sign.
Some still hanker after the accession to Pakistan they feel was their due at partition in 1947; probably a greater number want outright independence.
Moreover, while Serbs have been making mayhem in the Balkans, other southern Slavs (Macedonians, Bulgars and Slovenes, among them) have been striving valiantly to nurture their new democracies.It is understandable that many Belarussians and Ukrainians, as well as Russians, should hanker after the undemocratic but comforting order of the past.
The bombers may look to al-Qaeda for help and inspiration or they may hanker after a return to the authoritarian Baathist rule entrenched by Saddam Hussein.In this section The regime's ramparts are shaky What difference do they make?
An interdependent Europe is a fact, however much Mr Wilders and his like may hanker for a mythical cosy past.
They might prefer to join a new D-mark block than to stay with the euro, were Germany to leave.Weak economies might also hanker for a monetary policy tailored to their own needs.
Congregants, he said, should nominate a global body to elect a new Caliph, replacing the Ottoman ruler whose downfall Europe had engineered.Ideologues still hanker after the revival of a pan-Islamic empire.
In the first volume, the chronology caught a child's perspective; as Marjane grows older on the page, one begins to hanker for a more sophisticated storyteller.Yet there is a deceptive simplicity to Ms Satrapi's drawings, which capture a range of emotions with an economy of line.
