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yearningly
adverb
With yearning; with desire; longingly.
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Several spoke yearningly of the DPJ's farm policies.The ability to provide support, whether that meant a feeling of middle-class prosperity or a handout in the nick of time, kept people voting for the LDP time and again.
One of Pakistan's handful of serious academics spoke yearningly of the liberal scholarly atmosphere he had recently enjoyed at a conference in Tehran.Without deep reform to Pakistan's laws and institutions, a young and rapidly growing population seems likely to continue drifting towards extremism.
Many look yearningly to Germany, whose clubs are rich, excellent and 51% owned by fans.
Money shouts, and love – so yearningly sought after by her ever-romantic heroines, and so elusive – can scarcely make itself heard above its din.
Flashes from his past life are yearningly played over and over, while we also see future ages stretching out to the crack of doom: communist, post-communist, and possibly post-capitalist set-ups emerging and decaying.
(And if the laughter is insufficiently robust he is not beyond inquiring yearningly, "That was funny, right?") "Don likes to train his instrument," the comedian Bob Newhart says.
"This... is the artist of American democracy," wrote Time's art critic, Robert Hughes, "yearningly faithful to its clamor, its contradictions, its hope and its enormous demotic freedom, all of which find shape in his work".
They followed a path invisible under the snow, down toward the woods along the side of a big L-shaped field, the dog scouting ahead of them, racing back on her tracks to herd her humans together, straining her ears yearningly at the perturbed, watchful sheep.
She vomited that news out, mockingly, yearningly, with a shrug or with a finger pointed at the audience.
When he says he wants your vote, he does not just mouth the words but follows them through with his entire body, rising to his toes, tilting toward you yearningly.
Marcia Davenport, in the magazine Stage, called "Porgy and Bess" the first true opera since Strauss, and wrote with something like the old melting-pot ardor of the scene of mourners at a wake, "its rhythms Negroid, its soaring, minor cadences yearningly Hebraic".
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