I feel as if I had wasted an opportunity, longing the whole time for him to be someone else.
All through the 20th century, the west coast of Ireland continued to contain longing the way a bog contains rain.
It captures none of the nuance of Thomas Mann's original novella, which was an eloquent meditation on the creative impulse, longing, the fading of artistic powers and the final triumph of the body over the mind.
A strong sexual undercurrent flows through Mr. Tsai's films, breaking through the surface with a shocking intensity that comes not from the explicit display of bodies, but rather from the naked, desperate longing the characters suddenly betray.
When writing her, I had been thinking of Jenny Joseph's "Warning," regularly voted the U.K.'s favorite postwar poem, in which the young speaker imagines with longing the freedoms of rebellious old age and the prospect of making up for the "sobriety of youth".
Her life thenceforth could only be full of sodade, longing, the theme of her most famous song:Sodade, sodade Sodade dess nha terra…There were plenty of other "husbands", more than she could count, she said; three gave her children, but all of them just came and went, like the sea.
