yearning

What I’m trying to say is this: The yearning that feels like a burden is also your spiritual superpower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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

But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up courage to go to the ‘Mansion of Bliss’, as Meg called it.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

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

"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

In Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination acceptance speech were recurring themes speaking to Americans’ yearnings to feel their country as one of “common unity”:

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2024

It became de rigueur among architecture critics and historians to argue that Burnham in his insecurity and slavish devotion to the classical yearnings of the eastern architects had indeed killed American architecture.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson