Sentence examples for whose longing from inspiring English sources

It gives us an emblematic Fassbinder hero, Elvira (Mr. Camp) — abject, pants around the ankles — whose longing is met by faceless, violent bodies, encased in denim and leather.

For Wilson (a very fine Scoot McNairy), a scruffy depressive with spooked eyes whose longing pushes the story forward and a wee bit sideways, no place is lonelier than home, especially if it's doing double duty as a passion shack.

With a view from the East, it can be tempting to characterize the Nuggets as the architectural handiwork of James L. Dolan, the Madison Square Garden executive chairman, whose longing for Anthony pressured the former team president Donnie Walsh into surrendering more value than he wished to.

I had seen him physically expand as he came on stage for the dress rehearsals, but now, in front of an audience, he had become some sort of an animal, a panther or a tiger, prowling around in absolute contact with the audience, whose longing for him was almost embarrassing: positively carnal.

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz turns his pen to the haunting, impossible power of love and the story of the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness.  .

In developing his character, Fassbender avoided watching the android characters of Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), and instead observed the replicants in Scott's 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, with a focus on Sean Young's character Rachael, whose "vacancy" and longing for a soul interested him.

Nureyev escaped to the west shortly after and Soloviev, whose own longing for freedom wasn't armed with the same desperate courage as his friend, later committed suicide.

Jennifer Jones takes on the title role of a provincial Frenchwoman whose romantic longing leads to tragedy in Vincente Minnelli's "Madame Bovary" (1949), based on Flaubert's masterpiece, at 3 30.

Still, the biggest problem has been the relationship that used to be the show's heart: the one between Jim and Pam, work friends whose unspoken longing fuelled the early seasons.

Right now, I would rather look at his painting Ashes, a portrayal of the aftermath of sex in a Norwegian wood, or Girls on a Pier, whose lyrical longing is fraught with loneliness, than at Munch's most famous epitome of the modern condition.

These stories by a connoisseur of divided souls, written over the last 20 years or so and set in gilded Manhattan co-ops and expensive Indian villas, focus on rootless characters whose inner longings are at odds with their protective coloration.