For years engineers have looked longingly at the Congo river where it plunges down the Inga falls, between Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, and the Atlantic ocean.
The further Republicans get from power, the more longingly they think of the man who led their 1994 revolution and took back Congress.
Then people would start to think longingly of a time when they had jobs even if they had a tough time getting to them.
Ahead of the conference, Mr Johnson had hinted that his thoughts were returning longingly to parliament, where he spent seven largely undistinguished years before becoming mayor in 2008.
In the e-mail, he writes longingly of "all-white thrasher games", referring to Atlanta's ice hockey team, where concessions revenues "were nearly triple what they are at hawks games".
Some Conservative backbenchers look longingly at UKIP, other Tories (including David Cameron) get on well with free-market Lib Dems like David Laws.
"There would not have been many Scottish television sets not tuned to the tennis on Sunday," said Alistair Darling, the Scottish Labour MP leading the Unionist campaign, longingly.
With pubs shutting up shop, some streets are empty and echoing at night; and one of the rare places where people from different walks of life congregate socially is in shorter supply.Fans of paternalism in Chelsea look longingly at a neighbouring landlord, Grosvenor (prop. the Duke of Westminster and family), whose Mayfair and Belgravia estates have not lost a single pub in five years.
They look longingly at southern Europe where, they say, liberal licensing laws are part of the reason for the cultured and brawl-free nightlife.
Scottish nationalists do look longingly at Ireland, particularly at its phenomenal economic growth over the last decade.
Having lengthily lionised "America's mayor", Rudy Giuliani, looked longingly at Reagan-lite Fred Thompson, flirted with millionaire Mitt Romney and sung along with preacherman Mike Huckabee, the party's voters have sensibly plumped for John McCain, the only Republican whom pollsters give a chance of keeping the White House out of Democratic hands (see article).
