Their real lives are fizzing with romance, with gossip, with yearning, with dirty jokes and backtalk, and with privacy and secrecy too.
But along with this fairly obvious point, he asserts that "social philosophy is confronted with the yearning for a new interpretation of a life trapped in its individual striving for happiness" (p. 7).
Or, best of all, the sarod, another plucked Afghan instrument, like a rubab but fretless so that the performer on this night could bend the blue-notes of the melody with the yearning of a Billie Holiday.
The voice seems loaded with the yearning of all peoples, when history is done, for peace.
(Much of his writing suggests that he never discovered a way to cope with that yearning).
That young, pretty woman who was me, the one with the yearning smile on her face, tugs at my heart.
7. "You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it.
Write your review of Astral Weeks This is an album heavy with yearning, with an aching for the streets of Belfast, for the "gardens all misty and wet with rain", for being "conquered in a car seat".
The fear is that all this loopy charm, with a yearning romance at the center of it, will turn to treacle, but Butterworth cuts it with a razor.
Yet in Parker's verse the rebellion was beguilingly mixed with vulnerability, with ruefulness and yearning.
