The word "longings" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to express a deep desire or yearning for something.
Example: "Her longings for adventure led her to travel the world."
Alternatives: "Desires" or "Yearnings".
She was a little more restrained in Night Passage (1957), in which she tries to stir up past longings in James Stewart on a mission for her wealthy husband.
Both seek a past that is now only a land of memory and imagination, but which still shapes their daily lives and longings.
She admitted to occasional longings for the meatier soprano roles, Aida or Turandot or Leonore, but accepted, with her endless placidity and good-heartedness, that Ric didn't think it was a great idea.A song for sixpenceHe took her in hand in other ways, too.
But furusato longings are a force the government cannot ignore.
But Britain, for all Mr Blair's less-than-secret longings, is outside the euro-zone; firmly for a firmly intergovernmental EU; and closer than other EU countries to American policy, especially on Iraq.De Gaulle once famously said that, forced to choose between Europe and the wide world, Britain would always choose le grand large.
The trouble with constants Renewing a classic The devil in the detail Note: "Luis Barragán" Reprints Related items Opera: The devil in the detailJan 30th 2003Mr Chéreau has stressed the violence of these characters' passions, the violent expression of both their desires and the constraint of these longings: Racine's characters are all at one moment and another crushed by the weight of their shame.
The suburbs made it possible for the middle classes to fulfil those longings while working in town; and the railways made the suburbs possible.
The Uighurs fear that their culture is being destroyed, and that they will eventually become a minority in their own region.In this section The real enemy within Glimpse of a troubled land South Korea's workers return to the streets So, to the polls The scramble at the ballot box ReprintsCulture and religion foster the Uighurs' longings for independence.
Ms Gordimer was kept at home from the age of ten, ostensibly because of a heart condition, but really so that her mother could call out the family doctor, for whom she had a weakness.Thus Ms Gordimer's home life, oppressed by secrets and unspoken longings, and made liveable only by what she called "a certain dour tact", was lonely.
A noted historian of ideas, he traces millennial fears and longings in the West from their pre-Christian roots in Persian, Hebrew and Greek Stoic thought right up to Jonestown, Waco and Heaven's Gate.
Above all, he left the magnificently sprawling notebooks in which he recorded almost minute by minute his insights, raptures, conversations, longings and opium-tinctured dreams.
