Pinter has great fun playing the unwitting testimony of his characters' inner turbulence — the rawness of their aggression and their longing — against the cool chic of the surroundings.
As a result youngsters are leaving to join Isis in their hundreds because the terrorist organisation satisfies their "longing for identity and belonging" – something that is not offered to them by the increasingly disintegrated British society.
Along the way, Don Quixote stumbles upon lovers, Kitri and Basilio, who, despite their longing to marry one another, are unable due to Kitri's father, Lorenzo, who wants her to marry the wealthy Gamache.
Its subject – the Israelites giving poignant voice to their longing for the promised land – had become a powerful analogue for the long-frustrated desires of the Italian people.
Do you share their longing for home?
Their longing for life in America came and went.
Again and again, ostensibly heterosexual men express their longing for the touch of another male.
But the taste of freedom was eclipsed now by their longing for a good, hot dinner.
It is for their longing, their sense of fatefulness, perhaps even their melancholy.
I do not judge, but I show how people behave in their longing for happiness.
They register each other's presence almost exclusively in imagined interludes, and yet the communion of their longing is palpable.
