Sentence examples for vague longing from inspiring English sources
The "Fantastique," likewise, starts with a vague longing and ends in an inferno.
His title was "The American promise" — not a particularly sharp or surprising idea, compounded of a vague longing for togetherness and a sense of historical destiny.
His title was "The American promise"—not a particularly sharp or surprising idea, compounded of a vague longing for togetherness and a sense of historical destiny.
Ever since Michael J. Fox scored a sweet 4-wheel-drive Toyota SR5 in "Back to the Future," I've harbored a vague longing to own a pint-size pickup.
That world of vague longing is described in this novel in a way which not only shows us the poignancy of such hopes, but allows us to smile at them.
We'll be like those generic new buildings: Mirrors reflecting other mirrors, filled with unfulfilled vague longings.
In "To the Moon," Leopardi again achieves an apotheosis of the vague, bittersweet longing of adolescence: Yet it helps me, thinking back, reliving the time of my unhappiness.
He watches with vague sexual longing the women who cross his path: his young neighbor on the morning airplane ("She's long-waisted and slim-hipped, and she sways up the jetway..
His appearance, however, is equivocal: it makes Carla Devade feel like a protective older sister or a missionary nun in Africa, but it catches at Marie-Thérèse Réveillé like barbed wire and triggers a vague erotic longing.
