Sentence examples for small longings from inspiring English sources

Three generations of women - his grandmother, mother and sister - attend him, but relationships are bitter with recriminations and "pain and small longings and prejudices".

Initially, as in any freshers' week, we have a series of aching crushes: Dan fancies Jemma, who fancies him back, while Nell watches them whispering with "a small knot of longing tightening her gut".

It is circular and self-reflexively postmodern — Øyehaug's text enacts what Barthes theorizes, exalting an "object" that is itself just a sentence — while also registering some brief flash of consciousness, some small explosion of longing, that, like Anna Bae's discovery in Rimbaud's biography, seems true to our own experience of passionate reading: jouissance, to be precise.

Dim sum are exquisite: evolved versions of classics – "Breakfast in Causeway Bay" (Wong's version of zha leung cheung fun) features sticky rice roll, fried dough stick and "lava floss"; and just the thought of the pork bun, with its snowy frosting of sugar, can cause me to emit a small moan of longing.

The easygoing, unambitious Eugene seems content to remain small town, until his longing for Alma becomes too intense to bear.

My husband continued his commute to Manhattan, and I, left at home with three small children, found myself longing for the city, lonely and crying every day.

There are small shimmers of gay longing on display here — Myers getting "all goosebumpy," as Horowicz points out, at the very thought of Morris, or tearing up slightly as he watches his boss breeze through a Q.&A.

This achingly sad, occasionally grotesque story of family secrets, sexual longings and small-town malaise, told through drawings, paper cutouts and miniature models, has more in common with intimate graphic novels like David Small's "Stitches" or Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" than with any live-action indie melodrama I can think of.

It's a side that mostly revolves a small amount of people longing to decorate their homes with bits of dead endangered animals. .

This gendered imbalance in power at the highest levels seriously slows our country down and contributes to all sorts of things that people longing for small government don't want to pay for.

Mr. Earle emerged from the Nashville songwriting mills in the early 1980's, coming up with his own sinewy variation of heartland rock in songs about small-town characters longing to break free.