Sentences with word «yearn»

To yearn means to strongly desire or long for something. Full definition
Convinced by her girlfriends to go out partying one night, Alice hooks up with Harry (Alexander), a 20 - something - year - old who yearns of being a filmmaker.
The others who yearn for more luxury can take a look at the Grand Cherokee which is a proper luxury SUV.
Herzog goes to a rehab center for Internet addiction, wonders about solar flares short - circuiting everything electronic on Earth (does one detect a touch of yearning in his voice - over?)
It wasn't the first game of its kind, with Tactics Ogre having already laid the groundwork before it, but the addition of Final Fantasy elements and an incredibly intricate plot of politics and misshapen history turned it into a classic that people still yearn for more of.
Adulthood is filled with yearnings for things we can never have, or things we can't have again, and even if we can sample a taste of it, the reality that is our actual existence always threatens to take away the illusion of youthful freedom.
They express deep yearnings for community and are passionate defenders of racial and gender equality.
We're trying to save, just a bit, and appreciate what we have, instead of always yearning for a new ingredient.
If you do yearn for more structure, there's also a career mode.
, and other things that make people yearn for the day they get to go back to work.
He quotes New York Times bloviator Thomas Friedman as yearning for a «China day» when «we could actually, you know, authorize the right solutions... on everything from the economy to environment.»
Often researchers are left yearning for more data.
I am not the only young Christian who appreciates many aspects of postmodern culture but who also yearns for the absolute conviction that DeYoung and Kluck present.
Robin began to mourn the fact that she would never be pregnant again and decided to stick with one child and be happy with what she had and not yearn for what she could not have.
This also makes sense of 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.
If your heart yearns for something sporty but reality necessitates an SUV, the 2017 Mazda CX - 9 will satisfy both.
These depths are what yearn for the profound and the glorious and are not fed by the banal or the superficial.
According to Denmark's Schiller Institute, the Copenhagen climate change congress has been wrongly promoted as an international scientific conference and is instead part of «the latest aggressive assault by the British Empire against the just yearnings of the nation states and peoples of the world for economic development».
Is he making a case against tidy dialogue in the face of emotion, or perhaps positing human yearning as a flow of fumbling outtakes?
The voice of a generation wanting to roar with rage, rage against the dying light, was about to be cut off in its guttural, atavistic anger by a state that only wanted to protect itself against the dreams and ideals of the young people who yearn so desperately for change.
... Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
I see the title as partially evoking the pain caused by having to live one life while yearning for another.
Unfortunately, it doesn't quite come together in the way that fans of Bourne would like, and though they will be interested in seeing where Gilroy has brought a story that was first developed by Liman, they will probably by yearning for the return of Messrs. Greengrass and Damon.
CULTIST SIMULATOR: a game of apocalypse and yearning from Alexis Kennedy, creator of FALLEN LONDON and creative director of SUNLESS SEA.
The aforementioned Petr Cech, however, is no longer yearned for by the Gunners faithful!
He can not give peace of heart for which man yearns more than even for outward peace.»
It happens all the time, and yet we Christians rarely notice it; a moment of spiritual yearning in the heart of popular culture.
Permission to sometimes yearn for times past, to get it wrong, to be gentle with myself, to get it wrong.
It may leave fans yearning for the glory days of seven years ago, when the idea of Seth Rogen taking care of a baby was still patently absurd, not totally credible.
Together we sang the Lord's Prayer — and how fervently it was sung, with ten or 15 people translating into sign language, their hands and bodies full of the same yearning after God that I could hear in the voices all around me.
The Irish actress Saoirse Ronan fills Susie with such yearning and vitality in both life and death that contemplating the character's desecration is arduous in the extreme, but the sanitising by Jackson and his co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens on one hand, and the glorifying of Susie's post-murder consciousness on the other, cost the movie integrity.
After graduating college with a degree in Environmental Science, I enjoyed a fourteen - year career in the corporate software world, but my heart often yearned for something with more meaning.
Two - thirds expressed yearning, for example: «We need a daddy.
Layla — oh that we would all yearn to know Jesus more!
The Masters needn't ever yearn for storylines.
And we still secretly yearn to complete the set by completing the infamous «Smile» achievement, which requires you to pass and fail certain stages in the final mode to create a smiley face in the level list.
I guess the princess only yearns for independence until she's swallowed up in a twist of sky - high beanstalk vines — at that point, her ass needs saved.
But in their very different ways, both books tell fascinating stories about yearning, youth, and hope.
The instructors are themselves of two minds on this matter, many of them taking professional pride and pedagogical satisfaction in developing and adapting their own curricula, even as others yearn for someone to please supply them with quality instructional materials that are aligned with the standards and assessments that their states have mandated.
It succeeds in satisfying nostalgic yearnings but still leaves a few things to be desired.
Many women yearn to be with their children during the preschool years and maintain a professional identity and an income for the family and feel forced to sacrifice something.
You must take your older woman on an emotional roller coaster, because this is something that she is really yearning for in her life.
Coming Home to Harmony Jan Karon hit the motherlode of publishing when she tapped into a deeply felt yearning for small - town community and character.

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