Sentence examples similar to principal longing from inspiring English sources

In a second essay about Richard Wright, Baldwin had alluded to the "body of sexual myths... around the figure of the American Negro" who "is penalised for the guilty imagination of the white people who invest him with their hates and longings, and is the principal target of their sexual longings".

Long – and longing.

I believe the same principal is operating with spiritual longing.

A unifying theme to her eclectic oeuvre is "the longing of the principal character is to return home and home, I think, stands for the self, the authentic self".

In 17 scenes she evokes the whole complicated life -- in Puerto Rico, Havana, Washington and New York -- peppering the dialogue with lines from 20 de Burgos poems and weaving into it many allusions to principal de Burgos themes, mainly a longing for Puerto Rico's independence and the identification of it and its people with the waters of one of its rivers.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

And the three principal actors are remarkably adept at signaling nuances of longing, tenderness and uncertainty without betraying the fundamental reticence of their characters, who can barely speak about what is happening to them.

In the old days, students here studied English from Communist textbooks, and built their image of America from a mixture of fear and longing, recalled Herbert Schkutek, the 53-year-old principal.

Thanks to the anguished integrity of Damian Humbley's Charley, and the frayed longing of Jenna Russell's Mary, you also believe totally in the slowly dissolving friendship between the three principals.

And longing.

Libraries generate longing.