Longings in a sentence

Chakrabarti’s characters—diverse in race, class, sexuality, and religion—reveal themselves through longings: a closeted man dreams of conceiving a child with his lover’s wife; a lonely married woman secretly builds an airplane in her garage.

Looked at together her pictures find a language for the longings to which all fashion imagery aspires: stills from seize-the-day life.

These are values and longings that unify our common humanity in a feast of love.

It will ignite our deepest feelings and longings through generating and manipulating language, not out of any sentient intent but because it is just so good at doing what it is we want it to do.

One is the temptation to think that the other person is everything, all that we seek, the solution to all our longings.

We tend to see violent women as deviants, but as Flock recounts the stories of Smith, Dahariya and Zibo, their longings and indulgences, their fears, motivations and faults, she shows how mistaken this notion is.

Owen Cammayo, head of BPI Corporate Affairs Group, said the podcast sheds light on people from different industries, professions, and disciplines to help bring hope through their stories, longings, ideas.

They are as natural as the longings for touch, affection, giggles, comfort, hugs, intimacy and kisses that are accepted and celebrated by the so-called “straight” believers in your life.

Falling into each other's arms, Andrew and Francesca both satisfy the longings they have felt all their adult lives.

I’ve returned to taking my desires and longings and translating them into words.

We have medical resources now that human beings have only recently developed, and having the courage to address your own fears and longings by taking advantage of all your options may prove to be the solution that gets you through the next year.

I pray that as I read your word, it would shape my wants and desires and longings.

Before her visit to Britain in the autumn of 1914, which Jones chaperoned, Freud advised him: "She does not claim to be treated as a woman, being still far away from sexual longings and rather refusing man.

Immortal Longings: F.W.H. Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death.

Personal challenges and early solo success Clapton's career successes in the 1970s were in stark contrast with the struggles he coped with in his personal life, which was troubled by romantic longings and drug and alcohol addiction.

The Egyptians, as compensation for their aid, desired to annex Judea to their country, but considerations touching the resident Egyptian Jews, who were the main support of her throne, induced Cleopatra to modify her longings for conquest.

The Issei were exclusively those who had immigrated before 1924; some retained longings to return to their homeland.

Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics (Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, 1996), p. 85. This was to be a move towards poverty, from a stone complex that was well established to a temporary dwelling place.

With one raised eyebrow, he suggests he is above game-playing and role-playing—which are just hangovers from Earth's Victorian Age —that he and he alone understand the deepest needs and longings of the Earth female.