And Williams's compassion for Alma's restless spirit, yearning for a means of expression, is rendered by Ms. Bacon with inexpressibly moving grace.
But their Anna emerged as an improbable operatic heroine; a restless woman yearning to escape her backwater birthplace, Mexia, Tex.; a striver determined to get ahead and raise a son in any way possible.
Yet transformation seems to be in the air, both in our institutions and in our own restless spirit yearning for deeper meaning and more significant acknowledgment of our needs and dreams.
Productions in California's San Quentin prison and in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina captured a restless present and yearning for renewal.
After university, she became an accountant, but, restless and ambitious, she yearned to go abroad.
From her first appearance this vulnerable Leonora looks like a restless young woman full of yearning for her adored Manrico.
The Traveller, a philosophical comparison of the differing national cultures of western Europe and the degrees of happiness their citizens enjoy, is narrated by a restless wanderer whose heart yet yearns after his own native land, where his brother still dwells.
Winston is not a restless man; he doesn't yearn for vacation, and the Kansas trip will not be a welcome break.
Why, the poor old crone is restless in a strange land, and yearns to lay her bones among her own people, in the old graveyard at home; and so they go to pay her passage back home.
So in one dimension he charts material appetite, restless improvement, and bombastic pride, and in the other spiritual yearning, self-improvement, and self-doubt.
