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Example sentences for: yearning

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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.
The glory of the book--of most of Greene's books--is in the dialogue, in which all that vague spiritual yearning coalesces into candor so biting that it still has the power to shock.
It was especially welcomed outside Europe in countries yearning for an alternative to dependence on the U.S. dollar.
Time 's James Collins calls it "pretty good, gooey, yearning, adolescent fun," and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker calls it "a solid weekly soap opera."