Sentence examples similar to rational yearning from inspiring English sources
The myths of Mirabai, the legendary Hindu poetess-saint, and Antigone, the mythical figure of insurgence in Greek tragedy, are useful in understanding the notion of yearning as a rational passion linked to bodily experiences (1998, chap. 5).
could be a significant first step". "Boris Yeltsin is widely depicted as yearning to take supreme power, but rational calculation must surely tell him not to move too fast, and maybe not at all.
I hope you'll be enticed to read, or re-read, the whole poem and savour its homely yet memorable rhetoric, its vivid images, gloriously yearning sighs, twinkling jokes and keen-edged rational arguments.
Religious animosities persisted into the age of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 1716), but his rational approach and quest for religious unity corresponded to the popular yearning for stability.
It also allowed truth seeking to blur into wishful thinking, as Europeans' yearning for a benign resolution to the global crisis trumped all rational skepticism.
The younger generation in particular yearns for national unity to accomplish the things that every rational person wants, such as a solution to global warming.
Yearning, exhausted lead vocals?
The yearning went global.
My yearning seems foolish.
