yearningly

Example Sentences

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The earlier 1990s records had been more yearningly odd and exploratory, but the five Magnetic Fields albums that followed 69 Love Songs inevitably fell under its elongated shadow.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2017

She vomited that news out, mockingly, yearningly, with a shrug or with a finger pointed at the audience.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

Exhibitions and installations by international stars round out the permanent collection, which includes Anselm Kiefer’s yearningly beautiful Seven Heavenly Palaces, produced for the 2004 opening.

From Forbes • Sep. 20, 2014

Many believe him the best of all film composers, as adept at the yearningly romantic as he was at the outright terror of Psycho.

From BBC • Aug. 4, 2012

The whites of his moony eyes grew large and misty as his mouth struggled yearningly and lost against the familiar, impregnable loneliness drifting in around him again like suffocating fog.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller