Sobriety curbed his temper, but not his violent yearning for recognition or his self-punishing snobbery.
In her solo show "Shakespeare for My Father," she detailed her yearning for recognition from the great British actor Michael Redgrave.
What lends the nostalgia a special flavor is the movie's vision of Australia at the time as a jolly provincial backwater yearning for recognition on the world stage.
In one story, a young husband on a years-long mapping expedition in the Himalayas yearns for recognition through the plant samples he gathers; in another, a little girl demonstrates her crush on her parents' friend by collecting bugs with him; in a third, a schoolteacher meets his future wife while searching for fossils.
Her letters reveal a yearning for recognition, and a poorly concealed despair when she didn't receive it.
He last appeared here in 1989 when still a stage actor who yearned for screen recognition.
As his union grew, the rumbustious Welshman yearned for the recognition of the establishment.
Sinden was made CBE in 1979, but his "old actor laddie" public persona, exuding an air of fulsome ingratiation, made him a sitting target for Spitting Image, the television satire show, where his florid, fawning puppet yearned for further recognition.
This means that we are both delighted to see such an interdisciplinary endeavor and yet yearning for more recognition of politics and power.
"What Americans yearn for in literature is self-recognition," said Mark Lilla, a professor of political philosophy and religion who just left the University of Chicago for Columbia.
