Sentence examples for on yearning from inspiring English sources

This leads her to meditate on yearning, religious and secular, for an unmediated grasp of reality.

Undeterred, Hopp and Hoffenheim marched on, yearning for promotion, and into full-time professional football.

Elsewhere, on yearning slow jams like "I Don't Care" and "Refill," she winsomely confides to a range of insecurities.

In creating him, I drew on my own memories of my twenties when I was long on yearning and short on accomplishments (a not unusual state for an aspiring writer).

C1 Business Digest C1 World Business W1 EDITORIAL A16-17 Editorials: Middle East peacemaking; the education sellout; environmental word games; Francis X . Clineson yearning at the season's edge.

The same "and then" -- I later read in E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" -- that is the fulcrum of all fiction, going back to the earliest time our ancestors sat about the communal fire spellbound by tales; the "and then" that moves the narrative forward and, most of all, keeps the reader or the listener hooked on yearning to know more of the story.

And it's there on As If By Magic, which goes for full-on yearning with the lyric: "And in a parallel universe it's me you can't resist".

FOR those who work all day, cooking the kind of food one yearns for on a cold winter night is not always practical.

Absolutely spot on for yearning though is Glen Campbell in Wichita Lineman: "And I need you more than want you – and I want you for all time" he croons as the strings swoon and Richard Hawley takes notes.

The Rapture turns itself into something like an early-1980's dance-rock jukebox for "Echoes" (Universal/Strummer/DFA), putting a tough facade on confessions of yearning.

What is going on?" Barry yearns to join the elite corps of bees whose job is to leave the hive to get the pollen.