Sentence examples for own yearning from inspiring English sources

The books' inescapable melancholy is partly her own yearning for lost place and time past.

The boy struggles with not only his circumstances but his own yearning, insatiable intellect.

In good times movie stars are an agreeable reflection of our own yearning for youth, wealth and beauty.

As the friends push June's wheelchair out into the center of the Holy Pool, Gash can't resist sending up his own yearning for salvation.

This isn't so much Mad Men as deranged husbands and wives, driven crazy by their own yearning disappointment, uncertainty and misplaced ambition.

As she tells us their stories, Dennis's daughter affects an air of world-weary resignation, but she cannot entirely hide her own yearning for a sense of life that is somehow larger than life.

Director Richard Laxton's previous outing, the urban drama Life And Lyrics made for compelling, edgy viewing, whereas Grow Your Own yearns for a nostalgic past that would make it more at home on a Sunday afternoon TV schedule.

We hope that New York won't close the door on its own cousins "yearning to breathe free".

The teeming and shrewdly conceived cast of characters is centered on Peter, the young man who comes to suspect the computer of having a mind of its own and yearning for the human touch.

In Alvarez's beautifully balanced microcosm, there are no villains and no victims – just individuals waylaid by their own unrealistic yearning.

Springsteen seemed so confident in owning his yearning, in his candor, that how could we not follow him into battle?