Sentence examples for sentimental longing from inspiring English sources
While there is now a run on Twinkies fueled by sentimental longing for the past, I'm afraid for Hostess it may be too little, too late.
Price: £749 Frame: Aluminium Forks: Carbon Chainset: SRAM Stockists: www.eastwaybikes.co.uk The name Eastway evokes a sentimental longing on the London cycling scene.
Nostalgia, in such a context, seemed not so much a sentimental longing for the past as an act of reclamation and a gesture of defiance.
These — narcissism, fear of commitment, a sentimental longing for the greener grass on the other side of the fence — are pretty standard among romantic-comedy bachelors.
His own designs, with their fierce-looking layers, meandering zippers and winged lapels, suggest a similar hybrid, expressing, he said, "a sentimental longing for utopian happiness that is poignantly always out of reach".
For Machaut and his successors, the rondeau was a highly intimate form compared with the other formes fixes, and the texts often display the mood of slightly sentimental longing that was to characterize the courtly love tradition in its later stages.
Last year, Beatles Trivial Pursuit hit the shelves, perhaps reflecting a desperate attempt to stir the aging boomers' sentimental longings once more.
At one point he even seems to be on the side of "the people", with their nostalgia and sentimental longings, and expressions of horror at those who would erase whole cities in pursuit of the so-called purity of their visions.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
Show biz has always been a magnet for misfits with a burning yearning for the spotlight, of course, so the foursome's tales of overcoming self-doubt, and longing to join the popular clique, sometimes strike banal or sentimental notes.
