Sentences with phrase «of yearning for»

The space was built out of a yearning for connection to something other than ourselves, something extraordinary.

Thus Wiharso's work manifests such schisms and anxieties, with not only reverence for the folklore and history of his own Javanese culture, but also a strong recognition of the yearning for identity and belonging.

His titles, «Nommo,» «Kindred Spirits,» «Dissent from the Spirit,» are centrifugal illusions born out of a yearning for an understanding of the past.

Thwarted by their artifice, one is left with a sense of yearning for something not quite attainable.

A puppy may also start chowing down on rocks out of a yearning for attention and acknowledgement.

There's a kind of yearning for the old ways, as it becomes clear that greed and consumerism are taking a toll on the natural world.

I am sort of yearning for a long weekend trip to the mountains where I can do nothing but relax, take hikes, and head to the spa.

But I know the feeling of yearning for the things we can not wear.

But is some secret part of him yearning for a Cameron defeat?

Moisi's conclusion regarding humiliation without hope worryingly backs Lebow: «humiliation without hope leads to despair and to the nurturing of a yearning for revenge that can easily turn into an impulse towards destruction» (Moisi, 2009: 57 — our emphasis).

A lawyer on weekdays, he polices a Sunday game with a crew of five, all of them yearning for utter anonymity

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

That is the human condition and out of it we yearn for completion even while we try to convince others that we have it.

She also said that more than 40 percent of CUNY undergraduates are foreign - born and that 44 percent of them are children of immigrants, saying that CUNY is an «invaluable dream» and resource for them to «achieve the American dream that all of us yearn for.»

I've always been a Minecraft fan, but part of me yearned for a bit more story in my crafting - sandbox simulator to keep me motivated.

Many of them yearn for flexibility in their days to be able to conduct research, develop advocacy skills, reach out to a broad - based community, and use the tools available to them to make meaning.

What follows is the one «ordinary» day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to seek forgiveness.

Here is the LG G - Slate in a new teaser video that should take care of your yearnings for the world's first 3D tablet PC.

So many of us yearn for that kind of independence and connection to the land.

«I know the youth voted for the future that so many of us yearn for.

Many of us yearn for it and have struggled for it, with little success.

Not exact matches

The largest group of U.S. retirees in history has entered its prime RV - buying years, and Winnebago thinks it has precisely the right mix of nostalgia, adventure, and cushy comfort they're yearning for.

BlackBerry launched the Classic less than two years ago, hoping it would resonate with customers yearning for a physical keyboard in a world of touchscreens.

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.»

The youth of each successive generation cringe when their elders yearn for «the good old days», but there's a real danger technology is robbing us of some vital skills.

But Sullivan knew that another crew of pirates would quickly replace the last — and he also knew that the men were not motivated by religion or a yearning to destroy America, but rather the opportunity to make money and provide for their families.

Strickler, the 30 - something founder and CEO of Kickstarter — which, since its launch in 2009, has become the most popular crowdfunding platform in the world — does not yearn for the traditional talismans of a thriving venture.

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.

If you're old enough to remember a time before mobile devices existed, you may wistfully yearn for the days when people were head - up, paid better attention to conversations and read books or the newspaper instead of scrolling through a Facebook feed on their phones.

They're run by people who yearn for creative challenges and fulfilling opportunities, and who need the guidance of good human managers — not hard drives — to get them there.

(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.»)

How come we yearn for the gratitude of others but so rarely share it ourselves — even when we know it'll feel good?

Microsoft fans have yearned for modern and compact computing equipment after the advent of its Surface device.

The financial media lives for these sorts of markets the same way The Weather Channel yearns for super storms.»

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

Sometimes I yearn for the days of 28.8 k modems.

After years of apartment living, I yearned for my own space and wanted to distance myself from that nosy neighbor with an ear pressed to his side of my bedroom wall.

While my client wears a headset and views VR Hentai porn [a type of hardcore anime porn], I mimic the sensual actions of the animated character with my actual body creating an amazingly convincing sexual fantasy for my clients that yearn to get it on with an animated lover.

It's a great way to remind yourself of all the other things you wanted to do with your time that you didn't really get around to in your first attempt at retirement (since you really start yearning for them when you're busy working again.)

Does your audience yearn for top - shelf information that they can use to reach their goals of being the boss?

«The success of his open and principled approach to a scandal touched the yearning for nobility in many people's hearts: the dream that honest is rewarded; that the besmirched can be redeemed through honor.»

In sad tales, the author is a kind of despot - sadist who leaves us yearning for something more meaningful.

Psalm 10:4 The wicked one in the pride of his countenance will not seek, inquire for, and yearn for God; all his thoughts are that there is no God [so He never punishes].

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.

One has only to crack open the album's lyric booklet to see Daly and his fellow lyricist Smith struggling with and yearning for the love of God.

I've felt this all my life: a general dissatisfaction with the prizes of the present tense, a yearning for something beyond what this world can give.

He yearned for the taste of a really great adulterer — a Renaissance libertine of character and spirit, capable of sinning heroically — instead of the cramped souls of the modern age, almost too insubstantial and pathetic to be worth damning.

Ideas stand on their own merits, regardless of what my «being» yearns for.

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.

Even though it forbids the undialectical confidence in God's mercy that Luther later came to teach, it nonetheless allows the sinner yearning for God under the cross a sort of paradoxical assurance, a sense of being at least in the appropriate place before God, which sustains the heart and enables it to endure to the end.