Sentence examples for own longing from inspiring English sources

In his inauguration address, Nelson Mandela spoke of a covenant of his own, longing for "a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world".

One can imagine that Ms. Abramovic would have quite a different interpretation of her own longing.

"I've been thinking a lot lately about my own longing for order," he said.

I'll find beauty and respond with longing, then sate my own longing with a promise to myself: you will return.

Her own longing for a kind of return to this approach to food — if not to life itself — stirred.

This search for simplicity reflects Mansfield's own longing to purge her work of effective little writerly tricks.

A projection of Anna's own longings?

Despite her evenhandedness, however, she occasionally reveals her own longings and beliefs.

But it also functions as a kind of self-help manual, forcing readers to examine their own longings, failings and assumptions about love.

They are essentially lyrical meditations on some object or quality that prompts the poet to confront the conflicting impulses of his inner being and to reflect upon his own longings and their relations to the wider world around him.

In Schor's view, Lazarus was "a woman of action; a secular, nationalist Jew; a spinster with a sharp eye for sexual innuendo, unafraid to face her own longings".