Sentence examples for hidden longings from inspiring English sources

Silver frequently takes the measure of her characters' hidden longings.

I also find that when I am in a relationship myself, those hidden longings and crushes on male friends grow dim.

But still; there is something about him that inflames the Walter Mitty fantasies of men and the hidden longings of women.

Gilbert's argument is the cognitive scientist's version of Freudian delusion, with faulty logic — rather than the hidden longings of the unconscious — causing us to misperceive reality, and make decisions that are not in our rational, happiness-maximizing interest.

The hidden longings some call dreams.

Perhaps Tatiana and Onegin are dancing their hidden longings in Act III, just as they danced her youthful, starry-eyed dream in Act I.

That longing hidden behind the apathy.

This is especially true of the women, most of whom hide their deepest longings; the frequent shifts of authorial perspective allow us access to their interior lives, to contrast with the way they are seen by others.

It was a culture bewitched by Freud's theory that our longings, fears and fantasies are largely hidden from awareness.

If his personality seems hollow and his philosophy insincere, maybe it's because he's hidden the story of his people, and the deepest longings of his heart.

In this début novel, Greer pinpoints the "tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people" with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial.