Why deliver books to ignorant nomads, inspiring at best hopeless yearnings and at worst confusion and dissatisfaction?
The two of them draw close, and the scene where they sit in the car and swap verbal yearnings is at once the dirtiest, the least graphic, and the most touching thing in the movie, all the more so because these Ferrari-like desires are being mooted in the front seat of a Volvo.
Eventually he will know three women who embody the yearnings that tug at him.
Fifteen-year-old Oliver suffers from romantic yearnings, routine bullying at school, a gloomy home life and the acute self-consciousness of a precocious sophisticate.
Although most monthly auto industry figures do not break down sales by body style, dealers and analysts confirm what drivers' personal yearnings tell them: at this time of year, buyers want convertibles.
Those kinds of yearnings are hinted at in clips from an earlier time: Ms. Pelosi, who interviewed Mr. Haggard for a 2007 film about the evangelical movement, "Friends of God," retrieved footage of the pastor at his peak, greeting handsome young men in his church with warm hugs and hair-tussling horseplay, that in retrospect look like scenes from "Temptation Island".
E L James' trilogy, which delves into the more esoteric, hard-edged aspects of a consensual relationship, clearly speaks to the erotic yearnings -- or at least curiosities -- of some very "normal" women.
I can only guess at what yearnings underly this weird historical revisionism, but I find myself drawn to it.
I can only guess at what yearnings underlie this weird historical revisionism, but I find myself drawn to it.
