Sentence examples for physical longing from inspiring English sources

It's a physical longing in the stomach.

I felt a painful, almost physical longing to see Fumiko, to hear her voice, feel the touch of her hand on my shoulder.

The need to be there, we feel, really is a need — not just a physical longing but a social emergency, to which no alternative can be imagined.

And while both Yair and Miriam engage in a great deal of fantasy and physical longing, Yair continues to refuse to agree to any actual meeting.

The need to be there, we feel, really is a need not just a physical longing but a social emergency, to which no alternative can be imagined.

In the poem "Na Maria" Beatritz expresses her love for Maria in the traditional fin' amors style, both in terms of physical longing and courtly admiration.

Now an aircraftsman, stationed at sea, modern and dynamic, he becomes the "peg" on which she fastens her emotional and physical longings.

That way, your judgment won't be as affected by your physical longings, and you can think about the situation more objectively.

It will come as no surprise, then, that with "The Seal Wife" we are once more in the land of physical torment, bewildered longing and solemn sexual obsession.

Sitting in her living room in Claremont, where she is a professor at Pomona College, the 51-year-old poet relies on laughter as punctuation, a way to express the physical force, the longing, of a dislocation that can never fully be put into words.

Mr. Goodman, who finds a criminal coldness and working-class resentment beneath his character's hair shirt, delivers a Tartuffe who knows all too well that physical and spiritual longings are not mutually exclusive.