Sentence examples for longings at from inspiring English sources

According to the critical theorists, the oppression of "outer nature" (i.e., the natural environment) through science and technology is bought at a very high price: the project of domination requires the suppression of our own "inner nature" (i.e., human nature)—e.g., human creativity, autonomy, and the manifold needs, vulnerabilities and longings at the centre of human life.

Bin Laden had looked with longing at what he saw as the golden age of the long-departed caliphate.

They look with longing at the PGA Tour's setup.

These days, there is an unspoken longing, at least among journalists, for media moguls.

You do not tear up with longing at the sight of eggs.

Collapsed next to our packs, we stared with longing at Samye.

(Mann's diaries disturbingly reveal that he gazed with longing at his teen-age son Klaus).

They strike up a friendship, but Hazel remains wary, keeping Lily — needy, full of inchoate longing — at an emotional distance.

"You don't know how good that looks... and feels... and is," moans the future President, gazing with undisguised longing at a single bed.

What's more, he found himself wrestling with a growing desire to start a family, a longing at odds with his drive to make music.

Finally Stefano murmurs a closing litany of homages to remembered sex, to trust and to voids, and to "loss, loneliness, absence and longing, and no longing at all".