Sentence examples for yearning not from inspiring English sources

As X.P. children become teenagers, a yearning not to be excluded becomes a troublesome psychological burden.

Our fates are linked, and we cannot ignore those who are yearning not only for freedom but also prosperity.

"There's a lot of wanting and yearning, not all of it romantic," says Ellis. "These are difficult books to contain.

For these single mothers, feminism insults both: they see it as a cult of self-love that denies women's basic yearning, not to be free, but to be secure.

The recruitment of historical figures into contemporary mores and fashions is a tic of the Women's March movement, a yearning not just for a better future but for a neater past.

An unresolved imperial nostalgia suffuses "The Zanzibar Chest" -- a yearning not for empire but for the purposeful lives of action that empire allowed men like Hartley's father and Peter Davey to sustain.

He plays the perfect stooge, but does he yearn not to be the straight man?

Suddenly I knew how tiring this life was and how much I yearned not to always be travelling around.

She yearns not only to compete, but also to drive the teachers' union and some public schools into the East River.

They yearn not for Darwinian fitness but for what Dr. Brown calls Fondanian fitness, in honor of Jane Fonda.

I think Gordon Brown yearned not to "be Prime Minister" but to run the country because he thought no one else was up to the job.