yearning

It grew out of watching mothers sit on the sidelines of their children’s lessons and yearning for a way to get on the court themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

That era’s prime-time schedules illustrate the tension between insistent progress and a yearning for supposedly simpler times – a feeling similar to what we’re experiencing now.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

He is speaking to us trackside at Crystal Palace, its grandstands and shuttered scoreboard almost silenced and yearning to return to their former glory.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

In its sense of upward lift, it speaks of striving and aspiration and of almost inexpressible yearning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

Georgie and I hid in the shadows, yearning to tell our parents where we were and what had happened, but in those days, the rules held us fast.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

We all hold irrepressible yearnings and desires; they have driven us, across time, to engage with a spiritual world that encompasses beauty and, more importantly, our own inner lives and our connection to community.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

While the fan-theorised second finale has not materialised, a behind-the-scenes documentary showing how season five of the hit TV series came to life hopes to satisfy some of those yearnings and burning questions.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026

Despite the yearnings and longings that contribute to Lord Huron’s haunted Americana sound, Schneider is glad to live in this moment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

It comes from primitive yearnings for permanent idealized parents from childhood, or from replacements for disappointing parents.

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2024

A few days later she took me to a nurse-practitioner, who listened to my yearnings for my mother.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter