Sentence examples for sort of yearning from inspiring English sources

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Only in the tragicomic universe of Branford the bee can any sort of yearning for transcendence be expressed.

*** Back on the mainland, Synge looks towards the Arans and mourns: "The sort of yearning I feel towards those islands is indescribably acute".

But even here I can discern a funhouse-mirror Wallace logic, a perverse sort of yearning for intellectual honesty and consistency.

Other songs are simply derivative: the keening "Let Me Be the One," a duet with 50 Cent, is a paean to obsessive love, but En Vogue did this sort of yearning better years ago with "Don't Let Go".

And it's true that there is a very cultural influence on that sort of yearning, depressive "Moscow -ing out the window (there Moscow -ing German adjective that describes this exact feeling).

At times it's made me feel very upset, because I feel I don't know where I belong, and there's a sort of yearning and I wished I belonged somewhere.

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"I sort of yearn for that time when I was seeing something for the first time and it was exciting".

"It's probably the extended family that all of us sort of yearn for," said Michael Waltuch, who lives in Manhattan.

You have to sort of yearn for something and want something.

Harold Arlen: "There are ineffable qualities like the kind of yearning, and sort of sadness, even in the joyful songs.

Though deeply infused with what the Portuguese call saudade (a sort of melancholy yearning), they were unexpectedly melodic and most enjoyable to listen to.

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