Sentence examples for palpable longing from inspiring English sources
This first chapter, with its palpable longing for terrestrial sensation, may work for some readers.
"We had such a well-oiled machine," he said, with a tone of almost palpable longing.
And yet, beyond this manicured middle ground, there lies a palpable longing: for a president, like a great rugged mountain, whom Americans can actually look up to.
Despite palpable longing for the president to change policies and not just tone, some seemed to understand he was trying to move the debate by balance and indirection.
But the evidence for a radical shift in the way we consume seems more like the product of wishful thinking (there's a palpable longing among pundits for Americans to become more frugal) than anything else.
To me, it is the most open and vulnerable of all his compositions, its religious certainties balanced with a palpable sense of longing.
In this début novel, Greer pinpoints the "tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people" with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
Along with yearning, there is a palpable sense of loneliness running through "longing two," most hauntingly captured by Ms. Uchizono, whose face, whenever exposed, is gravely ancient.
It is full of longing — hedged, self-conscious, but palpable all the same — for a vanished way of life, in contrast to which contemporary reality seems drab and numb.
