Sentence examples for repressed longings from inspiring English sources

Both shows present an unhomely vision of home, depicting it as a place of repressed longings and semi-functional objects.

But its psychology, full of repressed longings and fears, is true to the characters involved, and in that sense it's personal.

But the play's roiling undercurrents — of melancholy, frustration, romantic longing, repressed primal urges — still resonate.

Rachel's dreamlike visions of a wild mustang in a story that her mother tells her symbolize repressed sexuality and longing for adventure in a punishingly austere environment.

This mass longing for political transformation was repressed longer by cold war despotism in the Arab world; it has now exploded, profoundly damaging America's ability to dictate events there.

That Virgin image has a tendency to crop up where repressed people begin publicly expressing the innate longing to be something more.

It is not that sex is denied or repressed, exactly, but rather that bodily desires are ultimately less consequential than more exalted longings, chief among them the yearning to figure out the world and one's place within it.

It was reading Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio that showed Oz how he could be a writer, by writing exactly what he knew: "a dreary tangle of sadness and pretence, of longing, absurdity, inferiority and provincial pomposity, sentimental education and anachronistic ideals, repressed traumas, resignation and helplessness.

Her longing and resignation also surely expressed Andersen's own feelings as a repressed homosexual.

Explicitly set during Freud's heyday and referring to experiments with hypnosis and dreams, Dreyer's drama depicts a world in which repressed carnal desire takes the place of the inevitably frustrated spiritual one that Gertrud expresses and embodies: the longing for a love so total and consuming that it contains the seeds of its own destruction.

These repressed mental contents are typically sexual or aggressive urges or painful memories of an emotional loss or an unsatisfied longing dating from childhood.