Sentence examples for yearning was not from inspiring English sources

His yearning was not foreseeable at his birth: his father was a hippie and his mother was an ex-nun, and they had met while counselling draft resisters during the Vietnam War.

If you talk to East Germans now, they often say that their real yearning was not for some abstract idea of freedom but just to get a first-hand view of the outside world.

That yearning wasn't just here in Ireland.

This yearning is not restricted to Mr. Libeskind's project.

The yearning isn't for "Dynasty" décor or even the real-life luxury lofts of India's new rich.

I'm not saying I'll never go back to Australia but the yearning isn't so great any more.

He abstains from "The Wanderer" to give himself some distance, making sure his yearning isn't just a product trademarked by his face and voice.

Unfortunately, the early promise of this lush, jazzy slice of yearning isn't quite kept by the rest of the album.

In some ways, the whole affair--organized by and starring Jane's Addiction--is an answer to all those young fans who have adopted as their personal rock prayer "Bring Back the '60s". This yearning isn't for the precise music of the '60s--a la the classic rock formats--but for a time when music had more integrity and daring and when there was a sense of commitment in the audience.

*** The yearning for the west was not, at first, the yearning of the exile, though the lament of the exile is everywhere in the With the Wild Geese poems Emily Lawless wrote.

This feeling grew stronger through infancy and adolescence: Joe remembers, as a boy, looking at girls with a yearning that wasn't sexual.