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This is quite different from being yearning, not-successful-enough people who hope, rather than know for sure, that study will generate dramatic upward mobility for our children.
By a not-so-strange coincidence, this conflict is prominent in lots of recent movies, among them A Walk on the Moon , Metroland , and Among Giants , which explore the natural impulse to settle down vs. the equally natural impulse to be wild and free--the yearning for permanence vs. the claustrophobic dread of monogamy.
An entirely new legal order was yearning to work its way clear from the turmoil of the 1860s.
Death of John Glenn in battle with UFO left millions yearning for life-affirming communal activity.
Paroled after seven years and with a yearning to see his daughter and loyal blond wife (Monica Potter, the apotheosis of the Ivory girl), he has the bum luck to land on a prison transport flight described--in one of those testosterone-laden lines that can be comfortably transplanted to coming attractions--as "a planeload of pure predators."