Sentence examples for on longing from inspiring English sources

He goes on, longing for more, despite pointing out, "I am not a greedy man".

The unobtainable appealed to Cornell, not because it prevented him from having a real emotional life but because it fed his real emotional life, which was built on longing — commercial, erotic, and romantic.

Also taking the mike, dramatically lighted in the center of a black stage, was a so-called cowboy poet, dressed in a big hat and vest, whose poem centered on longing for the Wild West.

Its lyrics focus on longing for an estranged lover and feeling emotionally distraught when apart.

It still has a very special place in my heart, but to go back to the hotel now, in this current predicament would be against everything that I believe in -- so until something changes, I guess I'll keep on longing.

LAWRENCE DOWNES ON LONGING AND LOVEMAKING Papalina Lahilahi "It seems that in old Hawaii too, there were people who always asked, 'But do you really love me?' This answer is not the gentlest.

"Only see the truth when I'm staring in the mirror," he raps on "Used To," longing for days past.

Such worries, in any case, seem positively quaint, artifacts of the muddled normalcy -- the precious, shattered finality -- that we now look back on with longing.

Ryan Adams is steeped in the right 1960's songwriters -- Van Morrison, Neil Young, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan -- and when he breaks free of their influences, he brings his own variations on heartbreak, longing and rancor.

Catching people unawares under the bridges, the sound had a haunting, mysterious lilt: Philipsz's work draws on "loss, longing and the power of memory", according to judge Polly Staple, the director of the Chisenhale gallery in London.

I hope if you find yourself on one path but longing for something else, you find a way to get there.