longing
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All of which adds up to a familiar Scottish tale of drama and longing, ambition and despair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
He ended up as a trishaw rider in Thailand in the 1950s, living in a hostel with other Chinese migrants and sending letters filled with longing to his wife and children back home.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Boy Moms stand alone, the main characters in what often seem like one-woman romantic tragedies of doomed longing.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
What they did share was a brutal colonial past, and a longing to achieve economic self-determination.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
They worked willingly to build her a temple, and when it was finished Demeter came to it and sat there—apart from the gods in Olympus, alone, wasting away with longing for her daughter.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
In many ways, Monroe is, and was, a piece of art herself, onto which we could project our own longings and adulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 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
The setting is still a Swiss alpine hamlet, but the villagers are all members of some puritanical sect and its sleepwalking heroine, Amina, has longings that transcend its limits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
It seemed designed to poke at my frustrated longings for a space of my own.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
It brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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