As he imagines a more global life for himself after City Hall, unshackled from the 24/7 needs of running New York, Mr. Bloomberg — an Anglophile with a taste for English Regency style — is exporting his vast quantities of financial, social and political capital to this ancient city, where he has long yearned for influence.
Mr Blair was not the first to yearn for an influence bigger than Britain's now-diminished status justifies, and he is unlikely to be the last: David Cameron says reflexively that he wants Britain to "punch above its weight".
He put himself under a harsh light, analyzing his own complex motives: moral passion, opportunism, a yearning for glory and influence.
I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny.
The yearning for the country, she said, "was to influence all our lives".
That yearning for purity, he says, is also a debt he owes to his mother, who was a profound influence on his work.
The arena of maintenance engineering has as its mainstay a yearning for a superior understanding of how the human reliability concept with respect to return-on-investment, can influence the performance of workforce as a whole.
Each is a civilizing influence, affecting an aspect of his psyche, whether that had to do with sexual identity, yearning for an authority figure, or artistic instinct.
A deep yearning for something.
You are yearning for something.
