Living in an age when most things are both digital and disposable creates an even more intense longing for physical objects that speak to you and will remain in your life.
The dynamics of political theology seem to dictate that when liberalizing reformers try to conform to the present, they inspire a countervailing and far more passionate longing for redemption in the messianic future.
Gender stereotypes aside, Crosley's popularity reflects a more general longing for classic products and services – it's the same impulse that has led to the craft beer boom, or traditional barber shops.
Now, however, analysts and close friends say, Mr. Kaczynski, 64, is in the midst of a makeover — and a budding comeback — aided by growing popular fatigue with the man who unseated him in 2007, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and a newly lackluster economy that has left more Poles longing for a strong, populist hand.
"Almost every day, I notice signs that more and more people are longing for our species to cease its self-destructive war with earth and each other.
Assia Djebar is an Algerian novelist who was educated in France, and her sweeping and impressionistic new novel, SO VAST THE PRISON (Seven Stories, $24.95), is about cross-cultural conflict -- it takes us into the life of an educated Algerian woman who is caught between traditional Islamic mores and her longing for a more modern, European way of life.
Nostalgia for Soviet stability is more prevalent than longing for democracy.
This aesthetic took the form of a yearning for the kind of public modernism that, rightly or wrongly, was seen to have characterised the period from the 1930s to the early 1970s; it could just as easily exemplify a more straightforwardly conservative longing for security and stability in hard times.
As people felt more compromised, their longing for purity would increase, and so would their loyalty, though only to a point.
The campaign to denounce political correctness reflects little more than a longing for the good 'ol days in which "we" (white Protestant men) didn't have to concern ourselves with "you'"(everyone else).
