Sentence examples for longing for pleasure from inspiring English sources

For all these, while one salient kind of motive involves longing for pleasure or pleasant things, people also have other ultimate goals.

I can picture Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane," surrounded by wealth in his Xanadu but longing for simple pleasures like an honest Côtes du Rhône, a Rosebud wine if ever there was one.

You can even find fruitcake (gâteau aux fruits), but why? Anyone longing for the pleasures of Christmas past -- like the one only a year ago -- can find them here, deep in the France of Canada.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

Lewis was longing for, as his brother puts it, 'the lost simplicity of country pleasures, the empty sky, the unspoilt hills, the white silent roads on which you could hear the rattle of a farm cart half a mile away'.

E.L.O. has always been a guilty pleasure, but "Zoom" (Epic) produces more guilt than pleasure — Lynne's obsessively ornamented arrangements, layered harmonies, and feats of studio trickery will leave you longing for a simple song.

— Increased longing for community.

We're longing for something.

Readers are left longing for a sequel.

"Wow," I said, longing for a photo.

I understood what they were longing for.