Sentence examples for maternal longing from inspiring English sources
The Iraqi orphans reawoke her maternal longing and, for the first time, she thought seriously of adoption.
Deborah Findlay's Mrs Tull is a delicious Hogarthian mix of native shrewdness and maternal longing, and there is fine support from Paul Ready and Dominic Cooper as the apprentice lovers, Ian Redford as a burly transvestite and Danielle Tilley as a rustic whore.
Had Veronica experienced maternal longings and commissioned this ghoulish cloth daughter?
Caroline Faber endows Margaret with the right strait-laced self-control, Katie Brayben communicates Jackie's unrealised maternal longings and, although she slightly overdoes the girlish friskiness, Serena Manteghi reminds us that Rosie is the ultimate victim of a lifetime of deception.
The transaction creates new problems — the guilty father uses drugs, while his wife struggles with her maternal longings — but the fact that there is a ritual in place is its own kind of consolation.
For many little girls, behind this creative play are her first maternal longings.
Love remains part of the great drama (and also the comedy) of existence, and it is not as if the great romantic and melodramatic woman's-picture themes — maternal devotion, sexual longing, enduring commitment — will ever fade away.
That is both the premise and the conclusion of "Mother and Child," Rodrigo Garcia's dense and thoughtful — if also uneven — drama of maternal anguish and filial longing.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
In "A Life's Work," a 2001 memoir of becoming a mother, Rachel Cusk writes that after her daughter's birth her "appetite for the world was insatiable, omnivorous, an expression of longing for some lost, pre-maternal self, and for the freedom that self had perhaps enjoyed, perhaps squandered".
