Sentences with phrase «often yearned for»

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.

Often we yearn for acceleration.

Preschool and School age children who are expected to protect the family often yearn for a new father to take over the protective duties.

The victims often yearn for acceptance from the very people who are bullying them.

The desire to lose weight is so often a yearning for something much deeper than shedding pounds.

I often yearn for the «old» ways.

Not exact matches

The problem is, despite the fact that we yearn for others to try fitting into our shoes, we're often not ready to do the same for them.

It is often said that those who are concerned about the social and personal effects of divorce are nostalgic for the 1950s, yearning for a mythical time when....

Often we find ourselves yearning for the good old days when the good old days are really a myth.

In the challenge and sometimes great suffering of this awakening process, there is often a great yearning for «harmony,» often construed as the natural order of life from which we have strayed.

The no. 1 adorner is at the core of any strong footballing side, with a number of teams often spending years yearning for the perfect fit.

It often seems it is the parent chasing the dream for the child, when the child just yearns to be a child.

I always had a yearning for «something else» but I had no idea what that «something else» was, and I was often intensely frustrated — to the point of having major melt - downs — because life just wasn't what I wanted... but I didn't know what I wanted.

Often we confuse our body's signals of thirst for hunger, or a false yearning for something sweet.

It can also be disproportionate and often involves yearning for something (or someone) excessively - having an urge to control the situation is often prevalent, too.

They often resemble a dysfunctional family, composed of three unlovable types: 1) aspiring politicians for whom this is a rung on the ladder to higher office; 2) former employees of the school system with a score to settle; and 3) single - minded advocates of one dubious cause or another who yearn to use the public schools to impose their particular hang - up on all the kids in town.

However, often these leaders were balancing large coaching caseloads of teachers across the building, and I always yearned for a more consistent source from which I could receive feedback that would help me to hone my craft.

That said, the fact is, the birth of a child often brings out an as - yet - unrecognized yearning in parents for a house with a white picket fence and a yard with a swing set.

Although Harry does not yearn for city comforts like Lonesome, he is often baffled by Chris's incomprehensible doings and illogical priorities.

I don't often miss the control scheme for a video game but whenever I clocked off of A Hat in Time I found myself yearning for the same level of design in other titles.

Samuel Brace on Metal Gear Solid V and story vs gameplay... It's been seven long years since Metal Gear Solid 4, five since Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker — a game while magnificent, that is often forgotten about for its lack of a number — causing fans of the franchise to yearn for the next -LSB-...]

After all, there are few areas that are really «denied» to men, if the level of operations demanded be transcendent, responsible or rewarding enough: men who have a need for «feminine» involvement with babies or children gain status as pediatricians or child psychologists, with a nurse (female) to do the more routine work; those who feel the urge for kitchen creativity may gain fame as master chefs; and, of course, men who yearn to fulfill themselves through what are often termed «feminine» artistic interests can find themselves as painters or sculptors, rather than as volunteer museum aides or part time ceramists, as their female counterparts so often end up doing; as far as scholarship is concerned, how many men would be willing to change their jobs as teachers and researchers for those of unpaid, part - time research assistants and typists as well as full - time nannies and domestic workers?

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.

Longing is «a high grade of an intense and often painful yearning for something, especially if there is no hope to get any satisfation of the desired or, if the satisfaction of the wish is uncertain or far away» (Grimm's dictionary, 1854).

Longing is «a high grade of an intense and often painful yearning for something, especially if there is no hope to get any satisfation of the desired...

Filial therapy is often a welcomed gift for parents who yearn to be involved in their children's therapy and healing.