Sentence examples for universal yearning from inspiring English sources
That's a testament, Mr. Carlson said, not just to the troupe's talent but also to a universal yearning for inside jokes.
Both the title and the book's underlying theme of the universal yearning for precious things lost suit this melancholy tale about men who go tearing after fabulous gold mines and fail to see the treasures they have at home.
"People want more and more the possibility to move fast, to be in Ibiza and St.-Tropez and the Costa Smeralda at the same time," said Mr. Bassani, nailing a nearly universal yearning in this time-pressed age.
When Afghanistan's new transitional government takes power two weeks from today, it will inherit a capital full of blaring horns, busy markets and a nearly universal yearning for peace.
Yet for all its deliberately kitschy gloss on other dance treatments of myth and fairy tales, this image of universal yearning for human warmth gives "Isle" a genuine depth.
I realized this was a universal yearning, at least among mothers, when I was reading aloud from a Harry Potter book and I came to the part where Harry acquires a map that shows the current location of every person at Hogwarts School.
It taps into what Michael Crichton, who devised the premise from which the plot derives in his 1990 novel Jurassic Park, identified as a near-universal yearning: to see tyrannosaurs or stegosaurs not merely as fossils, but as creatures of flesh and blood.
That's why it is nearly universal, despite a general yearning for something better.
But the character who became Adrian – he was called Nigel, then – seemed to me in that kitchen to have an identity entirely his own and yet incorporated a universal awkwardness, yearning and sense of potential.
"We're dealing with universal themes – loneliness, yearning, striving for companionship.
This yearning for universal mathematical laws to govern the behaviour of human beings has burdened the west with all sorts of harmless and less harmless nonsense, from phrenology to economics.
