Sentence examples for universal longing from inspiring English sources

The desire for a reason must be a universal longing.

His book begins strongly, even finely, with lyrical descriptions of the absence of water and the universal longing for it.

No one was really endangered by that, and you could tell it satisfied a universal longing for anyone who's worked in a service profession.

It bears repeating: the appeal of the simple story is based in human nature and in the universal longing for security, certainty and predictability.

I think there's so much pressure, people spend so much time commuting, I think that the episode reflects a very universal longing".

Allen is redoing as surreal farce his old distaste for the invasive idiocy of fandom (which he skewered in "Stardust Memories") and his amazement at the universal longing for an instant in the media lights ("Celebrity").

You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone.

American pop music is a tendril from the outside world that has penetrated this claustrophobic, hectic island, and it expresses the universal longings and the specific frustrations that dominate the lives of Mr. Yang's characters.

"Reprise" taps into a near-universal longing of young people — the desire to be somewhere else.

Arguably, and in some of its moods, the whole enterprise of science fiction is an expression of the age-old universal human longing for something more; a reaching out to the unknowable – beyond this life, out and up, beyond the horizon of the stars – our great escape out of the body of this death.

Bang Gang isn't autobiographical, but draws a line between those news snippets and the universal teenage longing for freedom.