Kids are left with this intense longing for identification".
To people's intense longing for their 15 minutes, maybe.
That can create an intense longing for what those outside Gaza see as mundane, or ordinary.
And why does it arouse such an intense longing to follow it?
They spoke with intense longing of the new freedoms that gays were experiencing in the West.
We are in the throes of what researchers call passionate love, a state of intense longing, desire and attraction.
But such statements, Dr. Christ said, usually represented intense longing and an expression of grief rather than suicidal feelings.
To me, it also suggested the emptiness of grief, when your own animating force or engine feels missing — or is replaced by another's through your intense longing for that person.
Living in an age when most things are both digital and disposable creates an even more intense longing for physical objects that speak to you and will remain in your life.
For the world had entered a new "revolutionary age," as the American critic Irving Howe wrote in 1954, in which the intense longing for change among millions of politicized people in Asia was the dominant force.
