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.
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.
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.
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.
When the will desires, it seems to want more specific objects than the vague longing for beatitude.
A vague longing for positivity and optimism; nothing specific or terrifying, because this was the deepest that people in gingham shirts can engage with social problems.
Hardly a shaman, not nearly a Lomax-purist, Banhart is more a psychedelic troubadour who projects the vague longing of early Marc Bolan and the non-sequitur genius of Syd Barrett.
