The word "yearns" is correct and well written in English.
It is typically used to express a deep longing or desire for something.
Example: "She yearns for the days when life was simpler and carefree."
Alternatives: "longs for" or "craves".
On this evidence we have a culture that either squeals with the joy of escapism or fuzzily yearns for tomorrow: it has lost the inclination to shout about the here and how.
The lavish food, wine, clothes, cars and sensuous self-indulgence – the easy grace of the true aristocracy – is deeply envied by the middle-class upstart Ryder: the outsider, looking in – who yearns to emulate such consummate style.
And he yearns for an outright parliamentary majority so that he can pass legislation without constraints.
Nobody should doubt he now yearns to be prime minister.
In times of turmoil, perhaps Congress yearns again for a strong woman at the helm.
A state that yearns for a semblance of normality between its wars cannot let such attacks become routine.
That dilemma is at the heart of the present wrangle over nuclear power.Why they want nukesFor all its recent sense of failure, Iran still yearns to be acknowledged as a leading power, even the leading power, in the area.
He yearns for "the beauty of the black female body…before they asked you to do Pilates".
Yet a corporate scandal, especially one where the victims are big international companies, can penalise the whole economy.Turkey, which yearns to join the European Union and so be firmly integrated into the developed world, sits uneasily on the cusp between the two approaches.
EVERY self-respecting school chef in America these days yearns for a food revolution.
"Who is she?" she yearns for people to wonder as she drives by, with one self-consciously "fun-loving" hand draped over the wheel.
