Sentence examples for yearnings for from inspiring English sources

But the fact that we can stand here today, along the fault line where a city was divided, speaks to an eternal truth: No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart.

The glamorous interior expels yearnings for summer.

Mr. Timbadia took the youthful yearnings for revolution less seriously.

Should they give in to children's yearnings for a phone app or video game?

Keenan's private Gar can also be seriously pained, expressing desperate yearnings for parental affection.

Tinseltown's yearnings for the good old days have been all too evident of late.

A Sister of Mercy writing about the Kama Sutra, sexual desire and "our yearnings for pleasure".

At Dacca, Kahn achieved a commission adequate to his yearnings for monumentality.

The British Admiralty resisted national yearnings for Nelsonian gallantry and dash.

Both men found success in appealing to anxieties about change and yearnings for a lost past.

Freud tied the whole yearning-for-pain thing back to the loss of virginity in his book about porn; I forget what it was called.