The emotional yearning stirred up in certain young men -- and sometimes women -- by the cultural artifacts of their not-too-distant childhoods is a phenomenon that Mr. Wright is fluent in.
As the soon-to-be lovers chat, show off, lark around and kiss, with director Linklater's camera a tender and unobtrusive companion, a sense of yearning bubbles up in the movie: we sense time slipping away, and the dawn approaching.
Yet the government's yearning to break up municipal vested interests is real.
And who does not end up yearning, even so, for various Golden Ages of yore?
"It resembles a horse's head reaching up, yearning," she said.
We became old, and afflicted by an occasional unbearable yearning to tie up all those loose ends of childhood.
"I don't wake up yearning for crisps, like a man I knew 20 years ago," he honked.
But after I've been in the United States for a while, I end up yearning for Asia's exotic ancient grace, no matter how many time zones away.
Pat Ferraro Klos grew up yearning to live in "a proper neighborhood," as she put it, instead of the Silver State Lodge, the second site on the endangered list.
Raised in the English countryside on vegetables from his father's kitchen garden and eggs fresh from the henhouse every morning, Parker Bowles grew up yearning for foods found in America, not in nature.
