Sentence examples for needs and longings from inspiring English sources

Later, they come back together and an odd and affecting relationship develops between them, as Messner begins to see Olivia less as an object of sexual fantasy than as a complicated and disturbed young woman, with her own poignant needs and longings.

She slices through the layers of three people's lives to lay bare the needs and longings of their hearts.

My mind had to shift to seeing my body as an equal, a peer, a wise being with needs and longings and a tender language all its own.

Through a day dedicated to celebrating the welfare of children, Universal Children's Day aims to raise awareness of children's rights worldwide, awareness of their situation in life, problems, wishes, needs and longings as well as to enable exchanges and meetings between them.

She with her romantic dissatisfactions, I with my romantic needs and longing..

She with her romantic dissatisfactions, I with my romantic needs and longing...

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.

Facilitating investment in, and growth of, companies catering to the wants, needs, cravings and longings of China's growing middle class, offers Chinese investment bankers a path toward personal wealth by creating national wealth, much as J. P. Morgan did for America.

I told MacQuatt later that I had found the way Mercredi talked about drink – the raw need and longing in his voice – painful to hear.

"Repeated acquisitions serve as a vehicle to cope with inner uncertainty," Mr. Muensterberger writes, "a way of dealing with the dread of renewed anxiety, with confusing problems of need and longing".

His character is a predatory one, and as the camera focuses heavily on his face and body movements, Rickman conveys a deep sense of need and longing to an incredibly unsettling effect.