Sentence examples for our yearnings from inspiring English sources

A Sister of Mercy writing about the Kama Sutra, sexual desire and "our yearnings for pleasure".

Look behind our yearnings, Ophuls gently suggests, and what do you find?

Krauss's narrative addresses memory, love and loss; how our yearnings are enacted down the generations.

It seemed we were caught between quiet defeatism and sentimental expressions of our yearnings.

Sport, in other words, answers our yearnings for heroines and heroes who reach out from the track or the arena and draw us to them.

We can project our yearnings on to houses in a different way too, particularly experiences related back to our childhood such as longing and loss".

Tackling our sexual yearnings, or registering our bodies with anything other than disgust, would indeed be radical.

I love and honor this search, in its halting steps, imaginings of powerful deities, yearning heroes, and colorful stories, because it represents our highest yearnings.

But the Internet, while it might excite the desire for creative self-expression and sudden acclaim, does little to slake our deeper yearnings.

These cartoonlike abstractions of the modern corporate oasis -- itself an abstraction of the centuries-old dream of Eden -- are quietly funny and, because they tap into our romantic yearnings for oneness with nature, oddly touching.

Dr Peter Hutchings, the author of the Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema, believes that they're also linked to our religious yearnings.