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Example sentences for: longing

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Stanley spent his wedding night forlornly with Hilda and many years afterward longing for a reconciliation.
His wisecracks sound as if he's nervously thinking them up on the spot, and he's better than anyone at saying something he doesn't mean and then wincing in horror, as if longing to hit the "Delete" key.
When the film shifts to hell, the muscle-bound Satan does a soulful, Meat Loaf-style schlock-rock ballad on his longing for a better world--in this case embodied by a ship of half-naked sailor types lolling about a pool.
Kaufman and Jonze end up sentimentalizing the longing for a collective consciousness in a way I found creepy: Do they mean to be retelling Invasion of the Body Snatchers from the body-snatchers' point of view?
That the Beatles singular revolution in rock sensibility was "camp," and that this was achieved through "the intersection of the band's alienated look and [impresario Brian Epstein's] longing gaze"--"a reverie of young lads in leather"?