"yearning after" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to express a strong and intense desire or longing for something. Example: "Despite all his success, he couldn't shake off the constant yearning after the simple life he had left behind in his small hometown."
But it may mean a poignant legacy for this indomitable, secular Jew born into the Middle East: an Israel that is increasingly religious, walled off from its neighbors, simultaneously yearning after and fearing a Western community of nations that sees it as more and more foreign.
There is much yearning after genuine spiritual wisdom, but there is an equal amount of yearning after false gods, bogus knowledge and hokey, New Age mumbo-jumbo.
Sloan also introduced the idea of the annual model change to keep drivers yearning after something new.
With "The Millers" Ms. Martindale is satisfying her good-girl yearning after a spate of characters like Mags Bennett on "Justified".
If you can watch a real lonely woman yearning after young hunks on a reality dating show, why bother with Emma Bovary?
Nansen sensed at a profound level the "yearning after light and knowledge", and, almost uniquely, was able to marry that understanding to physical capability and snowcraft.
This dispirits those Democrats who yearned, after eight years of George Bush, for audacious change.
Finally in possession of the facts I had yearned after for two years, I no longer had any excuse not to write my book.
Remember the video, too; a sun-bleached Simon le Bon in his boat shoes languidly pouting aboard a yacht as he yearns after a skipping model daubed in body paint.
The shelves in the travel bookshops are now weighed down with guidebooks, while readers who yearn after other places seem to choose detectives stories set in the likes of Scandinavia (Henning Mankell), Cuba (Leonardo Padura Fuentes) and Botswana (Alexander McCall Smith).
However, Peel's punk conversion changed both his format and his audience, and Radio 1 evidently yearn after a late show with more appeal to the middle of the road.
