Sentence examples for yearning for romance from inspiring English sources

In Ms. Lawson's songs, the intense yearning for romance can pale before a more basic need: survival.

In "The Unfortunate Predicament of Amelia Sas," the title character (Ms. Coxon) is a young woman with a mysterious medical problem, not to mention an asphyxiating relationship with her parents and a desperate yearning for romance.

Its suggestion that the aging but virginal queen yearned for romance was thought by many as inappropriate to mark the debut of the 27-year-old monarch, to whom the opera was dedicated by her "gracious permission".

They yearn for romance but seem fulfilled by friendship.

Yet among Musorgsky's large portfolio of songs there is charm and humour and always that yearning for the romance of the countryside, which, with all its "layers of pain and turmoil", Mr Brown shows, is all so Russian.

The Actress's penchant for playing Chopin while staring longingly into the middle distance suggests to the Actor that her heart is yearning for a new romance.

But throughout the 80s and 90s, I have to confess I wondered if the big screen would ever give him the opportunity for a truly blazing lead performance to match his extraordinary appearance in Dennis Potter's TV drama Pennies From Heaven, playing the sheet music salesman who is emotionally repressed, and tragically yearning for love and romance of the kind he peddles in those big-band era tunes.

I'd been yearning for a holiday romance of my own ever since a disastrous trip to Ibiza the year before when everyone had pulled apart from me, and I had to struggle to sleep each night against the ungodly volume of sugary alcopop in my bloodstream and the sounds of my so-called friends getting vigorously ploughed by builders through the thin partition walls of our apartment.

But if you're like me — not looking for romance, but simply yearning for a lazy Caribbean escape — the options are few.

The song itself engages with the film's themes of unfettered romance and yearning for an escape from the persistent anxiety of modern online life.

In these moments he is that lusty figure still – but it is a lust that cries out for more than sex, spandex and fleeting romance, it is a yearning for belief, belonging and something better.