Sentence examples for with yearnings from inspiring English sources

In that film, she would seem a shadow of other people's desires, but is brimful with yearnings of her own – for elegance, for sophistication, for New York.

His songs implied that daily life and private affairs continue in every political climate, with yearnings that are only compounded by the threat of war.

She's clearly bored out of her mind, which, at the beginning of the film, is filled with yearnings to realize herself by studying in New York at one of those quack institutions that preys on the vaguely dissatified.

Later, with yearnings of her own to get into journalism, she took a job at The San Francisco News before going to The Post to work on the editorial page and handle letters to the editor.

Sophie Rundle, Angela Griffin and the wonderfully gobby Sharon Rooney all managed to not only claw this back from workaday likability but imbue it with yearnings for a more active, less selfie feminism.

She wrestled with yearnings, to be career woman, to be listened to, to be wanted by Peter.

The director, Eugène Green, a native New Yorker who has been living in France since the nineteen-sixties, focusses on a Parisian couple, Alexandre (Fabrizio Rongione), a rationalistic architect with mystical yearnings, and Aliénor (Christelle Prot Landman), a sociologist with spiritual inclinations, who head for Italy so that Alexandre can complete his studies of the baroque architect Borromini.

I am going half-mad with sirenic yearnings myself.

For Mr. Chen, a career that had started with literary yearnings ended in prison.

Pete's move to the monotonous, flat shores of Lake Erie left him with similar yearnings.

Her mother was a cook and her father a dentist with artistic yearnings – "someone who was always searching for something".