Sentence examples for persistent longing for from inspiring English sources
His disparate characters inevitably get twisted, often grotesquely, around a persistent longing for a reconstructed world.
Eventually we come to know, as Nick does, of his persistent longing for a woman from his past, the now-married Daisy Buchanan.
"Obviously the grass is always greener," a University of Colorado historian, Patricia Limerick, said in a phone conversation this week, speaking of the urbanites' persistent longing for someplace more rural and less intense than the big cities where they live.
Harrison often gives in to emotional cliché when she writes about sex -- her characters are likely to feel a certain nagging emptiness when they enter the sexual realm -- and Bigelow's persistent longing for access, through the Aleut woman's body, to "her deeper self, her deepest self" can put you in mind of an inspirational sex manual.
One of his most persistent themes is the longing for home, coupled with the knowledge that as an ideal, it can never exist.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
(SUD + ASD 2) I was longing for a relationship for a long time, because that's the standard.
— Increased longing for community.
The longing for the girl is a longing to write.
Readers are left longing for a sequel.
