This soccer-mom "Bovary," like the original, grasps the fundamental sadness of characters trapped in middle-class stability and yearning for adventures gone by.
In the years that followed, looking after us and holding down a job as a teacher thwarted her wilder yearning for travel, and although she did go to Russia with my godmother when I was in my last year at primary school, most of our holidays were spent in Scotland, Suffolk and France.
So don't think I'm some dewy-eyed romantic who yearns for days gone by that never really existed except in my deluded imagination, or.... OK, scratch that.
As people get older, we tend to romanticize the distant past and yearn for times gone by.
Caught in the midst of this, Danny — a vaguely disreputable 36-year-old overgrown kid with a pewter hoop earring, mud-colored lipstick, baby-powdered white complexion and "a gash on his forehead from jumping into the fin of a wall-mounted sailfish on the day the dotcom he worked for went public" — yearns desperately for a link to the outside world.
Watching Australia collapse to 88 all out against Pakistan at Headingley must surely have made him yearn for one last go at them? "You never know.
If Alfred had an evening yearning for it he went out to the streets in search of the roaming sauerkraut man and the steel drum he wore around the city.
Yet, despite the shifts in religion's content and its social location over time, Taylor seems to suggest that humans necessarily have some orientation toward what he calls "transcendence"—some yearning for meaning that goes above and beyond the merely human.
Many of them expressed their yearning for things to go back to how they were before the disaster.
Mr. Hirsch, who looks like a younger Matt Damon, is poignant as the wistful boy whose yearning for his dead father goes largely unnoticed by his warring mother and grandmother.
