Sentence examples for understandable yearning from inspiring English sources

Vaughan has been something of a cricketing guru to Colin Graves, the incoming ECB chairman, and there is always an understandable yearning to appoint someone you know.

Traditionally, the Messiah is born on this day and the link is clear – the tragedies commemorated encourage an understandable yearning for messianic redemption which has led to a number of false messiahs over the centuries of Jewish existence.

However understandable the yearning to escape painful memories, The Times's policy is not to censor history, because it's history.

Wrong time for Compo's criticism It's understandable that Nick Compton yearns for a place at the centre of this Ashes summer.

The party's (and news media's) yearning is understandable — and reassuring.

After the failures of the so-called American Century, that yearning is understandable and even heroic, up to a point.

If we forsake the fairness of the trial process, simply on the premise that "a crime was committed, so someone must be held responsible", we lose all notion of justice and surrender to the sometimes understandable but always inappropriate yearning solely for retribution.

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.

I have seen Xi and Chen each tell their story to packed rooms, receiving standing ovations, because their yearning to be accepted is so understandable, so compelling.

If anything, yearning for a Philip Marlowe fix is even more understandable.

The yearning to surround oneself with stage sets of the past is understandable.