Sentence examples for strange yearning from inspiring English sources

Out of the struggle to fulfill the "strange yearning... for something unobtainable," she has herself created an apparently simple yet potent work of art.

But this terrible world also holds art and love; of the book's many rave reviews, one called "Bel Canto" "the most romantic novel in years" and another promised readers that they would experience "a strange yearning to be kidnapped".

Only a few weeks ago, Joshua Quittner, a technology writer for Time magazine, fed the frenzy when he reported feeling a strange yearning to return to the movie's mythical planet, Pandora, the morning after he was shown just 15 minutes of the film.

~I have and always have had, a strange yearning to either pull someone out from their own head, darkness, sadness, or help fix whatever appeared to be hurting them.

Together, those details shape a sad, strange mosaic of yearning — for fame, family or just financial relief.

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.

Clare has a strange and not entirely explained yearning for closeness with Irene, but Irene's reflex is to reject what amount to persistent advances.

Who among us doesn't harbor strange dark things that we yearn to get rid of but can't reach?

While reading "Midlife," I yearned for such strange and counterintuitive ideas.

Again, it seems strange that in 2015 we're still yearning for trouble-free connectivity to the attic, rather than the Arctic.

It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States.