Sentences with phrase «as yearning»

While blurring the traditional distinction between fiction and reality — and revealing the experience of fiction to be as palpable as anything in daily life — Huyghe's playful work often addresses complex social topics, such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems.

This abstraction of the actual should not be misconstrued as a yearning for the closure, but rather a running «leap into a dimension that can not otherwise be understood».

His playful work addresses complex social topics, such as the yearning for utopia, the lure of spectacle in mass media, and the impact of Modernism on contemporary values and belief systems.

That connection can't be willed, and it can empower an average performer to give an outstanding performance — how else could Jennifer Garner, as the yearning adoptive mother in Juno, steal scenes from a brilliant young brat like Ellen Page?

Subtleties such as the yearning for hands grazing through grass, or the chill from cool water washing upon the skin are gorgeously showcased, and Taylor - Joy's wide - eyed bewilderment is put to fine use throughout.

One final caveat: If you always fall for much younger or older men and the relationships don't go well, take some time to think about whether there's something you're looking for from these partners — such as a yearning to be taken care of or a desire to escape from the reality of middle - age — that you can give yourself, without all the relationship drama.

Sexual desire is overdeveloped in fallen man, even as a yearning on the biological level.

I love the idea of churches playing a role in building this wider communion, just as I yearn for the day when half our steeples boast windmills to catch the breeze that God sends across the land.

The actress had her hands full at one point carrying both children between takes as they yearn for her attention in Los Angeles on November 17, 2013

We see him act impulsively and dangerously so many times as he yearns for acceptance, whilst simultaneously fearing the embarrassment that his secret explorations could lead to.

But as he yearns to get back in the cockpit of a real plane and becomes increasingly troubled by the collateral damage he causes each time he pushes a button, Egan's nerves — and his relationship with his wife (Mad Men's January Jones)-- begin to unravel.

The story follows three women, each with a damaged soul, as they yearn to be loved, but first they need to define love and, in order to do that, they must learn to forgive.

Desert and the Sown was first published in 1907, which makes the travel and the photographs (as much as I yearned for colour and better quality) all that more amazing.

As it stands, despite the potentially petty concerns as I yearn for more realistic features and items in the continuance, Rise of the Tomb Raider truly seems to be a promising follow - up to the critically acclaimed reimagining of the Tomb Raider franchise.

Not exact matches

As this year's holidays approach, you may be yearning to see friends, family and new vistas.

Pantone describes its decision thusly: «As consumers seek mindfulness and well - being as an antidote to the stress of modern day lives, welcoming colors that psychologically fulfill the yearning for reassurance and security are becoming more prominent.&raquAs consumers seek mindfulness and well - being as an antidote to the stress of modern day lives, welcoming colors that psychologically fulfill the yearning for reassurance and security are becoming more prominent.&raquas an antidote to the stress of modern day lives, welcoming colors that psychologically fulfill the yearning for reassurance and security are becoming more prominent.»

It's as if Jane's fear, ego, or yearning to fit in prevents her from growing and learning.

As long as people have lived in close quarters, they've been complaining about the noises other people make and yearning for quieAs long as people have lived in close quarters, they've been complaining about the noises other people make and yearning for quieas people have lived in close quarters, they've been complaining about the noises other people make and yearning for quiet.

The real estate mogul has cannily understood that despite polling that indicates most Americans see free trade as more of an opportunity than a threat, a large and motivated minority of voters have been yearning for a politician to call into question whether the trade deals we have on the books are good for American workers.

(Heffernan touches on the big - picture disservice in the media's insidious practice of narrowing our horizons for profit, rather than expanding them in the public interest: «[Media companies] know that when we buy a newspaper or a magazine, we aren't looking for a fight... The search for what is familiar and comfortable underlies our media consumption habits in just the same way as it makes us yearn for Mom's mac»n' cheese.»)

Graves sees the Liberals as still riding a popular current of yearning for something unlike what Harper gave the country for a decade.

With the price soaring above $ 8000 as of this writing, many people yearn for a taste of the digital currency.

The album as a whole stands on its own as one of the best releases of the year for its yearning, deeply spiritual lyrics and its poignant musical flourishes.

She spoke of family; I listened to her yearning to see her mom and dad again and, as I listened, I affirmed her hope to be reunited with them.

While Nothingness as ever being a tempered rationalism, all materialized issuances are but sublimations of Nothingness's yearnings to bring forth that which is materially contrived.

After two or three thousand pages of Caro's highly oral writing, one finds oneself chanting along as he repeats the classic anecdotes and mottos, and yearning, in the end, for the fifth and final volume, which will complete this epic chronicle of a 20th century political genius.

There is no real evidence that Luther regarded this consolation as inadequate; the impetus to reshape his thought in a new configuration came from the theological tradition, not the anxious yearnings of a troubled conscience.

The speaker in Frost's poem yearns, as he says, «Toward heaven.»

He is actually viewed as a deviant individual who used religion to mobilize an armed force to fulfill his own agenda and yearning to expand and rule.

And here is perhaps the bitterest irony: As these extreme technologies are deployed to form families, many children without homes yearn in vain to be adopted — even as the adoption process has become increasingly difficult, due to the many bureaucratic hurdles here and tightening restrictions overseaAs these extreme technologies are deployed to form families, many children without homes yearn in vain to be adopted — even as the adoption process has become increasingly difficult, due to the many bureaucratic hurdles here and tightening restrictions overseaas the adoption process has become increasingly difficult, due to the many bureaucratic hurdles here and tightening restrictions overseas.

As long as God's deniers are righteous; He nor us faithful ones can find faultiness upon deniability's yearning summations.As long as God's deniers are righteous; He nor us faithful ones can find faultiness upon deniability's yearning summations.as God's deniers are righteous; He nor us faithful ones can find faultiness upon deniability's yearning summations...

That yearning to measure up, to be The Perfect Mother, masquerades as selflessness but really, it's approval addiction, it's people pleasing and you won't be the only victim of its poison and its bitter need for control.

Nevertheless in death we are caught up, overwhelmed, dominated by that divine power which lies within the forces of inner disintegration and, above all, within that irresistible yearning which will drive the separated soul on to complete its further, predestined journey as infallibly as the sun causes the mists to rise from the water on which it shines.

* worship God, whose will is and who has always yearned for us to...... be free and independent;... think;... be curious;... be intelligent and wise;... value knowledge over ignorance and compassion over knowledge;... be creative;... grow and mature;... live long healthy satisfying lives;... live non-violently without vengeance;... be generous;... be hospitable;... be compassionate;... do no harm;... heal and rehabilitate and restore;... forgive and reconcile and include all and have all participate;... be good stewards of all resources;... live here and now as one family;... live in a loving intimate relationship with God;... be transformed through resurrection; and... be the kingdom of God.

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

What I experience as I stand in face of — and in the very depths of — this world which your flesh has assimilated, this world which has become your flesh, my God, is not the absorption of the monist who yearns to be dissolved into the unity of things, nor the emotion felt by the pagan as he lies prostrate before a tangible divinity, nor yet the passive self - abandonment of the quietist tossed hither and thither at the mercy of mystical impulsions.

All of us, Lord, from the moment we are born feel within us this disturbing mixture of remoteness and nearness; and in our heritage of sorrow and hope, passed down to us though the ages, there is no yearning more desolate than that which makes us weep with vexation and desire as we stand in the midst of the Presence which hovers about us nameless and impalpable and is indwelling in all things.

The minds of men so often yearn for might and power, and their thoughts are constantly being drawn to such things, as if by their attainment all mysteries would be resolved.

Re ``... the sacraments as objective acts of God which function ex opere operato, rather than just subjective acts of humanity which yearn for, invoke and somehow evoke the divine.

There is a yearning for union that is emotional and spiritual as well as biological.

While I have tried to describe rather carefully the pastoral role of a clergyman working in a mental health center as contrasted to that of a parish pastor, I think it is important that some aspects of his pastoral role be maintained diligently — his openness to all levels of pastoral conversation, his availability at all times, his understanding of and empathy with the deep yearnings of people for a sense of purpose and meaning in life, forgiveness, moral clarity, the sense of the holy, and the importance of confidentiality and continuity in relationships.

We are created with a spiritual soul as well as a body, and so material things alone are not enough to satisfy us: we yearn for what is truly spiritual.

Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.

As the sea is made pure by yearning for heaven alone; so may the heart become pure by yearning only for the Good.

As the sea, when it lies calm and deeply transparent, yearns for heaven, so may the pure heart, when it is calm and deeply transparent, yearn for the Good.

It is the experiential insight that gives succor to man's deformed yearning (sehnsucht) for perfection in life, and it reveals to us that «God can not be contained within reason, because what he does goes beyond reason,» therefore the initial anticipation of the revelatory act / reality is signaled by the existential realization that God's «unnecessitated» love for us as created being, both corporately and individually, makes transparent «God's gift of Himself.»

It is that which also offers us the reminder that we should only seek «to be a model within our range,» as the young Henry Adams said of his own yearnings.

In what must surely rank as one of the most squalid seduction scenes in literature, Charlotte's Spartan self - confidence is overcome by a combination of alcohol, a handsome frat boy's flattery, and her own ambivalent yearnings to be noticed and envied.

This kind of selfishness and narcissism is unsightly, dangerous, and, as many of you have pointed out, contradictory to the words printed on the base of the Statue of Liberty: «Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.»

I want Jesus, I want to walk with Him and glorify Him, but it is not the same yearning / hunger I had as before the deliverance.