Sentence examples for severe longing from inspiring English sources

Symptoms include feelings of isolation, a strong temptation to lash out at company I.T. workers, and severe longing, not unlike drug withdrawal.

That is serious longing, right?

Desperation for thinness is a spectrum, with life-threatening diabulimia on the severe end and simple longings to be skinny at the opposite pole.

Long – and longing.

Your grave sense of longing could hinder his own sense of longing.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

Incest--any severe sexual abuse--can bring about dissociation, derealization, a longing for annihilation, Leslie writes (and I, myself, learned, firsthand).

The basic plot of Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket," from 1959 (playing at Film Forum on Aug. 20), is derived from that of "Crime and Punishment": an isolated and severe young man (Martin LaSalle) becomes a philosophical criminal who asserts his sense of superiority in larcenous acts while also longing to be caught.

By David Denby The basic plot of Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket," from 1959 (playing at Film Forum on Aug. 20), is derived from that of "Crime and Punishment": an isolated and severe young man (Martin LaSalle) becomes a philosophical criminal who asserts his sense of superiority in larcenous acts while also longing to be caught.

And longing.

Libraries generate longing.