Sentence examples for longing for release from inspiring English sources

They are images of beauty and virginity; they are slaves longing for release; they are suppliants.

It leaves him confused, lonely, appalled at his own daily compromises and longing for release.

These strange, insistent voices blaze briefly, trapped for ever in their "wordy-gurdy", eternally longing for release.

I would sit there with her family, pushing this oily Dundonian swill around my plate and longing for release so I could go back up to my box room and be homesick – and, well, sick in peace.

Historians of Jewish philosophy label Ibn Ezra's thought "neoplatonic" also on the strength of his deep involvement in astrology and arithmology, as well as his deep longing for release from this world.

The soul's longing for release from this world and liberation, or obliteration, in the divine, are themes which found powerful expression in their liturgies, and which bond them to at least one important facet of neoplatonism and to each other more truly than any specific doctrines that they may hold concerning the origin of matter or the nature of prophetic inspiration.

Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with the gallant army that had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth, and he chafed under the inglorious restraint, longing for the release of his energies, the larger life of the soldier, the opportunity for distinction.

After half an hour I was longing for the sweet release of a crack pipe, suicide, anything to make it stop.

Nonetheless, it's impossible not to sympathize with the little boy abandoned who lives within Ellroy, longing for redemption and release.

But I still found myself longing for an early release.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.