yearning

The scale and intensity of the crowds evoked a people yearning to lift their eyes above the storms and stresses of our age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Three years ago at Telluride, the yearning romantic fantasy “All of Us Strangers” memorably premiered, featuring Scott playing a character who worked through unresolved trauma by talking to the dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

“We have to invite people back to our city. We have been yearning to get back a big music festival on our beach to showcase the city, because the beach is our best asset.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

"So I was personally yearning for hooks and verses that are as powerful as choruses. Like an Elton John song where the melody just breaks your heart."

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

I can also understand my homesickness and yearning for Moortje.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Mr. Filończyk, making his Met debut, displayed a dark, expressive baritone; it helped contrast the older Joe’s buried trauma and Sam’s yearnings, sung in Mr. Mykkanen’s more open, poignant tenor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2025

"I always had these yearnings for a lifestyle that was different to the materialistic lifestyle," he explains.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025

Brody: There are opportunities of creative fulfillment, and that is such a deep part of any artistic person’s yearnings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2025

For Erice, a master, cinema works as a revelatory force that can illuminate our truest feelings and yearnings, despite the efforts of some of his characters to escape their torturous pasts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2024

The Abbot put his paw around the young mouse’s shoulder, sensing his secret yearnings, for he had ruled Redwall wisely over a great number of years and gained much experience of mouselife.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques