Sentence examples for human longing from inspiring English sources

But a calculus of human longing is also at work.

Even the Devil, as Mr. Smith reminds us, has a human longing to be loved.

Both are concerned with intimacy — and the ways in which it frequently falls short of human longing.

But in "Looking for Love," Soth's keen observation of character and human longing are already on display.

Like few singers of any age, she has the gift of conveying a primal human longing in a beautiful sound.

I sensed even then a fundamental human longing within me, and I felt that longing was being toyed with, manipulated.

They were propelled by the most basic human longings for dignity, justice and to control one's own life.

It didn't need to shake the earth; it just needed to express, and answer, basic human longings.

The soloists sing passionately of human longings that are universal: for justice, for the well-being of children.

Lizzie Clachan has turned the Royal Exchange stage into a distressed echo-chamber filled with bare wooden tables, while Imogen Knight's imaginative choreography uses the attendant spirits as a phantom presence echoing human longings.

The legacy of "Mythologies" falls short of the complete smashing of signs, the "semioclasm" Barthes wished for in his 1970 preface — neither he nor anyone else has solved the problem of why certain basic human longings for freedom, or heroes, or cleanliness attach themselves so easily to travel guides, bicycle races, plastics, and laundry detergent.