Sentence examples for no longing from inspiring English sources

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Craving, but no longing".

There is no longing, no temptation, no arousal.

We felt no longing whatsoever for the great cheeses of far-off Europe.

There's no longing, but only brilliant satisfaction in his windowsill array of potted plants — hydrangea, amaranth, agave — backlit against boats at harbor.

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".

He lives in a world where his desires are so instantly and easily gratified that they hardly even count as desires, since no longing or effort ever enters into the picture.

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I have no other aim, no other longing, no other hope or wish but you.

At the start of his new novel, "Sunset Park," Paul Auster merrily disregards Vonnegut's rule, introducing Miles Heller as a man with no longings or hopes who has trained himself to want "as little as humanly possible".

There are no expressionist moments in "The Piano Teacher" — no scenes of longing, no soft-focus dreams or cinematic dreck.

Residual sexual longing?" "No," I said.

There is no grand romance, no heartbreak, no passionate longings nor evil deceptions.

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