Sentence examples for without longing from inspiring English sources
"I could barely think of her without longing.
I also talk about the idea of a divided protagonist, that protagonists come to life because they are conflicted, such as Julian in Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge," who can never speak of the old family mansion (or the Old South) without contempt nor think of it without longing.
That I can be sitting here now in another room two floors away from those half-digested stories and be engaged, without longing for them, in an entirely different activity is not something I would have believed possible when I was young.
It's hard to watch the opening of Annie Hall, or the sperm scene from Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, or any of Sleeper, or even his old standup routines from the 1960s without longing for a return of that Woody Allen.
These meat substitutes can be a great way for a new vegetarian to begin meeting their protein needs without longing for meat products.
To this day, I cannot eat fish and chips without secretly longing for Tizer.
Longing for retribution is longing for retribution.
Now, I cannot pass the elegant new Williams-Sonoma without a pang of longing for what might have been.
Finally, we can really experience this reality just as it is, without expectation, prejudice or longing.
Their torment is that " without hope we live in longing".
