Sentence examples for impossible yearning from inspiring English sources

The sad thing is that they capture an inevitable and impossible yearning.

That Hemingway paragraph would be inert artifice were it not for the "comfortable sound" that captures the impossible yearning of soldiers about to be sent either to slaughter or the gray twilight of retreat.

In the immediate vicinity, the only connection to the developed world's riches was a square thatched hut that had been painted with a large, black Nike logo, an expression of impossible yearning for a distant world -- in Davos, say, or Washington -- where $100 sneakers are the norm.

The much harsher and much more complete restraint of a narrow prison cell and an ordered, repetitive existence within the prison walls, plus the challenge of being told that escape from this prison is impossible, increase this yearning for freedom to the point where no risk seems too great, if only there is the possibility of freedom.

The slew of MOR performers lauding her is like a Radio 2 playlist, yet it's impossible not to yearn for fewer guest cameos and more Warwick.

How Cruise must be yearning for Mission: Impossible 5 next year.

Whether as a teenager or a grown-up, Mike is forever trying to climb the social ladder and belong to the coolest clique, while yearning for an impossible kind of love.

For Mr. Crewdson, whose painstakingly constructed images seem to yearn for some impossible human connection, melancholy is as integral to his vision as a fog machine and the mystical caul of twilight.

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LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Equally effusive, Liz Hoggard of The Observer wrote that "it's impossible to resist Blunt's troubadour yearning".