SRINAGAR, Kashmir — At 4 in the afternoon on Saturday, elegantly dressed people began filing into the sumptuous cool of Shalimar Garden, past the pink stone pavilions and whispering fountains that made long-ago emperors, stuck in dusty Delhi, weak with yearning.
That spirit of the citizens of a strong, established, and noble nation reaching out to fight for the freedom and independence of a weaker republic yearning to breathe free lives on in the valiant American souls who fight for the IDF in Israel.
Among other things, the books feature a church-sponsored prison camp for kidnapped children, a pair of renegade male angels who are touchingly in love and a god who is ancient, weak and exhausted, yearning more than anything for the merciful release of death.
But I observe that the universal yearning for weak currencies is tantamount to a yearning for a strong gold price.
Furthermore, Mr. Canning hit me at a weak moment, when I was yearning for blooms but had forced more hyacinths, tulips, paperwhites and snowdrops than I care to recount.
Other than that, it's a weak piece, which makes you yearn romantically for John Humphrys' hectoring tones.
It is right on code for my weak and confused cultural identity: I yearn to dress with the authority of a kleptocratic cannibal.
We need somebody that's going to be a cheerleader". Trump said the United States has become soft and weak like the National Football League, adding that he yearns for the days of "violent, head-on" tackles.
Perhaps it is a yearning for the smack of firm leadership, but the prime minister's steely resolve makes patriotic Tories go weak at the knees.
