Sentence examples for infinite yearning from inspiring English sources

This symphony, Hoffman wrote, "sets in motion the machinery of awe, of fear, of terror, of pain, and awakens that infinite yearning which is the essence of romanticism".

In 1810, Hoffmann more or less inaugurated the Romantic epoch in music when he perceived in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony the gateway to a new sensibility — a world of "infinite yearning," of "awe, fear, terror, and pain".

Yet the prime minister himself seems trapped by his view of national psychology, apparently reinforced by his reading of the crisis as a left-wing moment, in which voters have an infinite yearning for spending rises (if not for commensurate tax hikes).

Here shining rays of light shoot through the darkness of night, and we become aware of giant shadows swaying back and forth, moving ever closer around us and destroying within us all feeling but the pain of infinite yearning, in which every desire, leaping up in sounds of exultation, sinks back and disappears. . . .

The year-long regimen of dealing with question after question without "right" or "wrong" answers gave students insight into the infinite yearning of the Greeks and their revolutionary achievement in the ancient world.

But, no — like Hamlet, the rich yearn for infinite space.

Hippolyte Taine wrote in 1866: "There may not be in the world an example of another genius so universal, so incapable of fulfilment, so full of yearning for the infinite, so naturally refined, so far ahead of his own century and the following centuries".

A religion that genuinely evokes, hints at, connects us to, and expresses the yearning for the Infinite and which generates within us ever deeper capacity for compassion, ought not to give us "reasons" to shore up our belief in some finite political view or candidate.

"Rather than a universe of neatly reciprocating pairs, love and love-returned fluttering through space nicely and symmetrically like so many pairs of butterfly wings," Ruprecht muses, "instead we get chains of yearning, which sprawl and meander and culminate in an infinite number of dead ends".

Mr. Hvorostovsky used the infinite shadings of his luxuriously dark and dusky voice to illuminate the yearning nuances of bitterness and regret.

Opening lines "I love myself, I want you to love me" may now be the silent subtitle of infinite relationship seminars, but at the time that Amphlett's short-breathed yearning ascended the music charts worldwide, a Texas venue literally pulled the plug on their sound system rather than allow her to reach a vocal climax.