Sentence examples for longing for lost from inspiring English sources

She said, "Ted comes to visit, and I can't help longing for lost Edens".

It has no direct counterpart in other languages, and evokes longing for lost times and lost loves.

Unlike contemporary, rightwing political laments for America, Simon isn't longing for lost privilege but for departed sensitivity.

Slipping quietly and undeservedly straight to DVD, James Ponsoldt's sweetly mournful The End of the Tour (Soda, 15) is certainly a niche proposition: a gentle, conversational account of a five-day encounter between Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky and the late novelist David Foster Wallace, set 12 years before the latter's suicide, but imbued with longing for lost ideas.

Then, like all good Yankee preppies, they'll drag back home to the land of commuter trains, sunburned and longing for lost romance before they settle into a narrative built heavily on who can be the most New York of all, before pivoting to Philadelphia and the all-important cheesesteak with whiz photo op at Geno's.

Every so often he allows himself some lavish, graphic sexual writing, as though challenging us to read these descriptions any differently from his scenes of longing for lost family homes or missed landscapes.

That, I suggest, must have been especially devastating, since longing for that lost mother had become repeatedly projected in fiction as a quest for sexual fulfilment.

"Rubies" is all Jazz Age angles and sass; "Diamonds" is steeped in longing for a lost world particularly the rather melancholy pas de deux.

When I read later in Plato about whole souls divided at birth into two halves, which move around in the world ever afterward mourning each other and longing for their lost completeness, I thought I was reading about myself and Valentine.

In "A Life's Work," a 2001 memoir of becoming a mother, Rachel Cusk writes that after her daughter's birth her "appetite for the world was insatiable, omnivorous, an expression of longing for some lost, pre-maternal self, and for the freedom that self had perhaps enjoyed, perhaps squandered".

At a moment when American movies seem to be suffering from arrested intellectual and emotional development -- somewhere around the mental age of 12, to judge from this summer's crop of cloddish action films -- these movies seem to be longing for a lost maturity, a way out of the impasse of enforced infantilism.