This creator of scathingly witty, politically pointed light verses that extended the style of his youthful idol W. S. Gilbert into the 20th century also wrote the words for "Over the Rainbow," popular music's ultimate expression of inchoate yearning for a better place.
Though Narnia sometimes seems a threatening place, when we juxtapose it with the chaotic and cruel world of Fillory, we yearn for the ultimate justice and order in the Narnian universe, as well as the way every wrong seems rectifiable.
Perhaps the ultimate and irreconcilable contradiction, though, was his yearning – "Where's the respect?" – to possess both the adulation of the angry disaffected and the serious regard of the established.
People's yearning for, or intuition of, some ultimate meaning continues to break through in many different ways.
Scorsese yearns for something to provide the ultimate validation of his creative and professional existence.
In light of this ultimate purpose it is understandable that the nurses yearned to convey consolation in order to help their patients to achieve a peaceful, uncomplicated and harmonious death.
David is not only the ultimate goody-goody; he's the spirit of pure, yearning adoration.
In the end, Swiper, a tragic example of uncontrollable selfishness ever yearning to be generous, would make the ultimate act of selflessness for the sake of the people/animals who never ever gave up on him.
McAdam Freud's intense study of her great grandfather, her 2006 residency at the Freud Museum, and her New York City visits satisfy a yearning local analysts have for a connection to the ultimate, elusive, and difficult to please father of psychoanalysis.
THAT sort of talk is very satisfying to devoted David Duchovny fans (me included), who have been reduced this season to an adolescent kind of yearning for Duchovny-Mulder, whose current scarcity makes him the ultimate unattainable man.
Mostly I did this because I've always yearned to write a story that concludes with the ultimate clichéd line: "Then I woke up and it had all been a dream".
