Listening to Warwick sing Bacharach and David's best work is like listening to the philosophy-laden score of a John Cheever story, say, in which nostalgia for one's youth, the burden of responsibility, and ever-present longing all come together in a perfect convergence of voice, word, and sound.
Perhaps you're thinking, "What's so strange about that?" After all, who amongst us isn't familiar with this ever-present longing?
The show's catalog quotes Frederik L. Polak, the Dutch sociologist and utopian philosopher: "If Western man now stops thinking and dreaming the materials of new images of the future and attempts to shut himself up in the present, out of longing for security and for fear of the future, his civilization will come to an end.
It's healthy to miss the person sometimes, but it's also healthy to want to enjoy the present instead of longing for the past.
And when she is not physically there, she is — as we know from many accounts of adult adoptees — still present in dreams, fantasies, longings and worries.
Bisous Ciao, on the Lower East Side, a minimalist white-cube boutique, presents macarons as a study in longing, arrayed in a long glittering case.
In founding the Kabbalah Center, Rabbi Berg appears to have put his finger on a primal longing that is present in even contemporary sophisticates.
Ghosts — of people, places and rituals — accumulate and eventually dominate his narration, the fleshy bodies of women past and present filling him with tenderness and longing.
Aika and Bek know where the "sweet spot" is the present moment, that special place "between longing and regret" that Mr Tesson is ultimately in search of.
I feel that our present spiritual reawakening is a deep longing, a need to step into this light.
