Sentence examples for layers of longing from inspiring English sources

On the one hand, he said, with its hypnotic prose, its layers of longing for money, status, reinvention and love, it's still channeling the American experience.

But too often "Sutra" settled for fun with building blocks or, worse, cutesy exchanges between Mr. Cherkaoui and Shi Yanle, in which Mr. Brzoska's score suggested too-obvious layers of longing and playfulness.

It's blues: long and full of longing.

The layers that she packs into single words are astonishing: "He-e-y," for example, stretched into several syllables of longing as she speaks to a confounded young man, or "Eureka" as a cry not of discovery but defeat.

I suppose I began the story out of longing.

The sense of longing that haunts the play — "Love me.

It inspired a form of longing.

But there is also a feeling of longing for what was before.

They have provoked looks of disdain and looks of longing.

Ten years of longing for more time.

I am always having these dreams of longing.