Sentence examples for longing it from inspiring English sources

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Yet in a sense the most recognizably nostalgic aspect of another '80s revival is the longing it betrays for a time when it was not only possible but desirable to flout convention and to be — as Kim Hastreiter, the editor of Paper magazine, suggested — the German aristocrat Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis dancing on the bar at the Mudd Club in a couture pouf dress from Christian Lacroix.

By that, Chidera means she made the conscious decision to have as little writing in the book as she could: "There's no point longing it out or surrounding it with loads of pretty nice words, when really I could just get straight to the point and allow it to sink in and apply to you in whatever way works".

Walton's first successful large-scale concert work, the Viola Concerto (1929) is in marked contrast to the raucous Portsmouth Point; despite the common influence of jazz and of the music of Hindemith and Ravel, in its structure and romantic longing it owes much to the Elgar Cello Concerto.

Filled with visual echoes and wordless longing, it is almost Escher-like in its simple complexity, proving the truth of Elizabeth's thesis by making the silences almost as eloquent as the words that fill it.

If I write about sorrow and longing, it is easier in Turkish.

But right now, when Americans look back in longing, it belongs on every food lover's bookshelf.

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I'd spent over 40 years longing for it, dreaming about it.

Firstly, that longing for it and the joy and deliciousness of finding it.

Constantly waiting for that phone call, terrified of missing the end, hoping it won't come yet but deep down perhaps longing for it to be over?

Day in, day out, on a group email that is now a hundred years long, my chums salivate over this future sandwich, longing for it like the first cuckoo of spring.

Ajitpaul Mangat of Tiny Mix Tapes noted the song as some of the album's generic work, stating, "with its run-of-the-mill lyrics about longing hearts, it sounds like the work of any middling R&B singer".

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