longing
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"The first thing I said to him, apart from the usual greetings, was that everybody was worried about him, was looking for him, was longing to see him," Pepper told the BBC.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
“It’s to children’s fiction that you turn if you want to feel awe and hunger and longing for justice,” she writes, “to make the old warhorse heart stamp again in its stall.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
It isn’t that the stakes are low, or that conflict is nonexistent, but that the drama is driven by issues of connection, identity, love and longing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
She says she loves her summer job and is very aware many of her friends are at home and longing to be able to work.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Make it so pleasant he won’t want to go away. My dear, he’s longing for his little home, but it isn’t home without you, and you are always in the nursery.”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
He has no apparent convictions, only Freudian longings for an idealized childhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
His voice - bruised, buttery and intimate - has been an inescapable undercurrent of Bollywood, narrating heartbreaks, longings and reconciliations for millions for more than a decade.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
But if there were any chance of changing my mind and taking the plunge, watching “Welcome to Derry” has permanently exorcised any phantom longings.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025
Can he deny his flesh and blood longings and his yearning for relief from an enduring sorrow?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2024
Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that—little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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