Sentence examples for longings about from inspiring English sources

NF: I did drama at school and loved it and I had secret longings about being an actor.

"Powerhouse" is jubilant and electrifying, but it also asks the questions that Coetzee asks himself, about the constrictions of society and our improbable longings; about how music changes us, and how we ourselves seek change and justice.

Like many a pop star, Shakira sang about love and romance, about shared desire and solitary longing, about regrets and vengeance.

She's a mess of emotions, full of longing about the life she knows she can't have.

He talks with longing about the days when the BBC would announce, "There is no news to report".

It's a story about longing, about getting what you want and having to live with that as the delirious, half-crazed passion subsides.

She sang about runaround men and hold-tight women, about sticky-sweet love and salty-dry longing, about rest stored up in the next life and the weight pressing down on this one — songs like the gospel standard "This Little Light of Mine," Mel & Tim's soulful classic "Starting All Over Again," and Betty Wright's rhythm-and-blues hit "Clean Up Woman".

The line "Tell me, blessed angel, to whom I owe the terms of my salvation" has the ache of hopeless longing about it and it's at this moment that Albery first brings in Senta cradling a model of the Dutchman's ship close to her heart.

In Arabic, the word "bayt" translates literally as house, but its connotations resonate beyond rooms and walls, summoning longings gathered about family and home.

A lot of my songs are about longing and separation.

I remember Joanna telling me how many of his songs were about longing and loss: I thought about the love of his life, this little boy with yellow hair, living a world away.