Sentence examples for yearning toward from inspiring English sources

London suggests it's human nature, a female yearning toward yielding.

Yet I find myself yearning toward them, toward the possibility they represent.

But Ms. Fairchild never teased out her character's yearning toward freedom, and Mr. Ulbricht, as he too often does, went for the hard sell.

Most moving among these last are the well-known Easter Island figures, on bedrock roots yearning toward who-knows-what seas beyond their own.

"The Horizontal Line," even though it contains faint, perhaps unintended, echoes of other poets, shows Hirsch's diction yearning toward the kinetic vitality of his early work.

Most were hard-living guys, steeped in bohemian poverty, with attitudes both aggressive and defensive, hostile and yearning, toward a society that they perceived to be provincial and philistine.

While Emma's emotions are focused on Annabell, Annabell's yearn toward Isabell.

These abject beings yearn toward nobility's vested grace, its immunity from ordinary judgment; and their yearning is dignified by the powers of masterly painting.

We all yearn toward the state of inanition, the condition of harmlessness, where we are perforce lovable and fragile.

The assorted mechanical forms, the bachelors, at the bottom of the "Glass" supposedly yearn toward the more sinuous doodads of the bride, above.

And this explains why that love seems at once so forceful and so fugitive, and why, "while we speak of this, and yearn toward it," as Augustine says, "we barely touch it in a quick shudder of the heart".