Sentence examples for unacknowledged longing from inspiring English sources

The friendship that transpires is a kind of nothing – a brief period of talking, laughing, sharing silences – which has the potential to be life-changing; its unacknowledged longing made all the more poignant by the knowledge that neither will ever know of the other's subsequent diversions.

But like most movies, even the most ostentatiously naturalistic, these are also fantasies, tapping into the unacknowledged longings and superstitions of the audience.

This is the arena for their hidden lives, and secret, unacknowledged longings - erotic and otherwise - which manifest themselves outwardly in little jolts of disorientation and inattention, the suburban moment when, as Nabokov put it in Lolita, one accidentally sweeps the refrigerator and defrosts the driveway.

Long – and longing.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

And longing.

Libraries generate longing.

Goodbye to longing.

— Increased longing for community.

Grief, longing.

We're longing for something.