Sentence examples for understandable longing from inspiring English sources

A growing appetite for genuine and lasting reform competes with teachers' understandable longing for a period of stability after 13 years of constant change.

This is an understandable longing, for Roosevelt and Johnson, however dissimilar, are the readiest models we have of Presidents who, like Clinton, believe in the utility of government, and who succeeded in getting ambitious legislative programs enacted.

Still, compared to what's happening now, it's understandable that people of her generation would look back on that time with longing.

Long – and longing.

It is understandable that many Egyptians are longing for stability after three years of turbulence.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

Russia's longing for a measure of security is understandable.

Given the grim tidings from everywhere these days, a longing for the seasonal comforts of happier yesteryears is understandable.

It's understandable, then, that many of us may be looking back and longing for the past, when life seemed a little bit easier.

But in this case Brantley's longing for the tragedy of a Judy Garland or Liza Minnelli is understandable but misguided.

And longing.