This particular Berlin — cradle of techno culture, hotbed of lost weekends and lost minds — has been an object of international yearning and fascination for more than twenty years.
It was impossible not to detect the pride that he was trying to suppress, but being the object of desperate yearning does make him uncomfortable.
Pippa Middleton's behind From the moment when bored photographers at the royal wedding snapped the unexceptional back view of the bride's sister, the semi-royal bottom became an object of erotic yearning for frustrated monarchists around the world.
NEW YORK (RNS) A Ugandan villager in the new Broadway musical from the creators of South Park offers a plaintive love song about paradise -- and the object of her yearning is none other than Utah's capital.
And since the womb is obviously no longer available, we've spiritually upgraded the object of our yearning to God or Awakening, striving for union with the Divine, dissolving into the Light, merging with the Beloved, to open our hearts, get enlightened or one of a myriad variations along those lines.
In the Symposium Socrates claims to be quoting his teacher Diotima on the subject of love, and in the lesson attributed to her she calls beauty the object of every love's yearning.
Johanna and Louise are objects of desire and yearning.
Featuring the vocal talents of fellow Greek Stella, it's a balmy slice of early-evening cocktail-house that'll have you daydreaming about yearning after the imagined object of your affections.
Moments of transcendence, intervals of yearning.
That open face of yearning and hope.
My patient had been an educated man, full of yearning.
