When Jason Elliot was just 19, he obeyed a powerful yearning for adventure and spent his summer vacation in Afghanistan, whose people were then fighting the Soviet occupiers of their country.
Slate has re-posted a 2005 essay by Bryan Curtis describing the decline of the game's popularity in the Internet age, and Haney's passing will no doubt trigger bouts of wistful yearning for bygone days spent testing our knowledge against that "great repository of middlebrow culture," as Curtis aptly describes it.
Curly-haired women like myself often recount adolescences spent yearning for sleek, straight tresses falling down their backs.
Nonetheless, a weekend trip to Montauk left them yearning for a way to spend more time out on the water.
He explains that Nemo and Wall-E, saucer-eyed and naïve, evoke our yearning for the infantile: "Studios spend so much time and money trying to get audiences invested in characters — and it comes for free with a baby or a puppy.
Now your sleepless nights are spent yearning for another Gillian Flynn book...and could the days until the Gone Girl movie comes out be going by ANY SLOWER?! Never fear.
If you seriously want to explore the tension between the messy beauty of lived experience and the human yearning for tidy narrative, you could spend one of the intermissions, or even one of the acts, I suppose, reading from Susan Stewart's "On Longing," one of a pile of books Mr. Mac drew on for inspiration, which are collected in the "Context Corner" downstairs.
Most of us have spent years yearning for better posture.
Maybe it is because this is the year of my big 50, or maybe I just am yearning for more meaningful ways to spend my bigger moments.
Not just from Rice's defenders, who had spent weeks yearning for the White House to push back more forcefully against her critics, or from Democrats, who wanted Obama to go forward with the nomination and make an example out of those pledging to block her appointment.
