Sentence examples for physical yearning from inspiring English sources

But while the heroes remain uniformly super-rich – as well as young and beautiful – I believe that this craze is driven by fiscal as much as physical yearning.

She has never intended to procreate, but then she holds her sister's baby in her arms and is instantly overcome by "a physical yearning more powerful than any craving she'd ever known".

Stopes wrote: So widespread in Anglo-Saxon countries is the view that it is only depraved women who have such feelings (especially before marriage) that most women would rather die than acknowledge that they do at times feel a physical yearning indescribable, but as profound as hunger for food.

No longer content with the pursuit of casual sex and physical beauty, he yearns for commitment and stability in a romantic relationship, commodities not easily available in the bar scene of Los Angeles.

So songs like the excellent Suburbia and Talk Me Down pick over small-town boredom and a yearning for physical contact respectively, while even the more extrovert Wild and Youth are suffused with cool melancholy.

Badhwar (2003, 65 66) seems to think so, claiming that the sexual involvement enters into romantic love in part through a passion and yearning for physical union, whereas friendship involves instead a desire for a more psychological identification.

Yet these packages are mostly aimed at hard-core fans or those who still yearn for physical product.

What animates "Wuthering Heights," what makes its rage so plausible, is the feeling of being trapped in the physical world while you yearn for something more — for some spiritual reality that might actually exist.

When many lower-income Americans are feeling isolated by the deadening uniformity of things, by the emptiness of many jobs, by the media, they still yearn for physical social networks.

When the unloved Darren takes in a pair of fugitive radiants, he finds himself both stricken with desire and blackmailed by a female cop called Kelly who, like him, yearns for physical contact.

"When many lower-income Americans feel isolated and empty, they yearn for physical social networks.