Proust showed her that sexual longing, so central to adolescent dreams, can be as cruel as it is blissful.
Mr. Bassani, for his part, wanted to satisfy that longing, so his yacht-making company, Wally, built the WallyPower 118.
It also helps to satisfy a longing so essential to our well-being that we feel compelled to tune in, and we find it hypnotic.
My longing, so fierce that sometimes I can barely move, is not necessarily to be a parent in the abstract, but to love and parent our biological child.
Still, Dudman artfully channels Wegener's voice — prim and fastidious, but filled with longing — so convincingly that her book reads like an artifact of Old World exploration.
As the story unfolded, Jasper's very real fixation with Edwin's fiancée, Rosa, emerged; in one scene he observes a sheen of sweat bloom on her neck with frustrated longing so palpable you felt as unsettled as young Rosa herself.
Junk food and movies, being almost perfectly replicable, both cater to this longing; so it's no surprise that Tarantino loves junk food — although lately he's been on a diet — or that he, like a child, sees his favorite movies over and over and over again.
When Mason and his friend aren't punished for drinking and driving – indeed, when we are left longing so clearly for Mason's success despite his being a rather mediocre shit – it reinforces a supremacist mindset about the value of darling white boyhood, while black and Hispanic boyhood, not to mention girlhood of any race, is not considered even worthy of mention.
