Sentence examples for repressed yearning from inspiring English sources
"repressed yearning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It refers to a strong desire or longing that has been suppressed or kept hidden. You can use "repressed yearning" to describe a character's inner emotional state, or to describe a theme or motif in a literary work. For example: - "She tried to ignore the repressed yearning in her heart, knowing that it could never be fulfilled." - "The novel explores the theme of repressed yearning through its protagonist's constant struggle to hide her true desires." - "He could feel the weight of his repressed yearning for adventure and freedom, buried deep within him." - "The painting seemed to capture the essence of repressed yearning, with its muted colors and hidden symbolism."
Allusions to Europe point to the repressed yearning of the artist's parents for a cultural heritage left behind.
More than either of these, it is a poignant love story: the repressed yearning of a solitary man for a resolution to his inner frustrations.
Ms. Williams has a sweet, expressive, slightly doughy face that beautifully conveys the repressed yearning of a 50's good girl.
Bennet Gartside is better yet as the middle-aged Quant, awkward and shuffling in his plain brown suit, but with a forlorn skittishness, a repressed yearning layered into his old-fashioned reticence.
But the Christian Democrats are evidently betting that in the hearts of ordinary Germans, enough old resentments and enough repressed yearning for a new patriotism persist to make their platform seductive.
"For every Alan Gross, there are many more Cubans being incarcerated, harassed and repressed for simply yearning to be free".
But throughout the 80s and 90s, I have to confess I wondered if the big screen would ever give him the opportunity for a truly blazing lead performance to match his extraordinary appearance in Dennis Potter's TV drama Pennies From Heaven, playing the sheet music salesman who is emotionally repressed, and tragically yearning for love and romance of the kind he peddles in those big-band era tunes.
But many commentators have viewed the work — completed in 1902, when the Finnish language and culture were being repressed by Russia — as a yearning for liberation from Czar Nicholas II.
Amanda Harris, though, is deliciously funny as Celia, playing her as a myopic, repressed, head-prefect type who also fancies Orlando and yearns to whip off her specs and let down her hair like a smouldering sexpot.
The designer's crushed and shredded fabrics, rich embroideries and wanton cuts are increasingly a magnet to women yearning to break out of last fall's uptight tippets, tie-front shirts and repressed suits.
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.
