Words similar to longings

Example sentences for: longings

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"Portnoy's complaint" is defined on the first page of the novel of that name as "A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature."
Margaret Thatcher, whom I quote with trepidation following your comments on the unappeased longings of conservatives, once observed that there was no female equivalent of the (masculine) word "puerile."
Pedophilia, rape, murder, suicide, dismemberment, obscene talk: Happiness is about the sense of incompleteness that these seemingly disparate people carry inside them--and, more important, the ways in which their prodigious longings manifest themselves in their sexual predilections.
And He Got Game is poised to be Lee's Great African-American Myth, a tale that encompasses the tragedies of the past, the turbulence of the present, the messianic longings of the future.
The movie, based on a best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks, preys on the unsatisfied longings in us all; were it to satisfy any of them too quickly its spell would evaporate in a second.