Sentence examples for widespread longing from inspiring English sources

More than anything else, a widespread longing for a quick and cheap peace brought the men of 1809 to power, but they were unable to save Finland.

Perhaps, in the widespread longing for likable characters, there is this: a desire, through fiction, for contact with what we've armored ourselves against in the rest of our lives, a desire to be reminded that it's possible to open our eyes, to see, to recognize our solitude — and at the same time to not be entirely alone.

In Fall 2010, the meta-text feels like a widespread understated longing on the part of the chattering classes for a 1994-style routelican route.

Long – and longing.

Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.

Against this backdrop of beliefs, the longing for personal significance was widespread.

And the longing of a child for a dog of his or her very own is so widespread that every reader will be on tenterhooks, just willing everything to work out right for Hal and Fleck.

And longing.

Libraries generate longing.

Craving, but no longing".

Goodbye to longing.