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Example sentences for: yearning

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Above all is the yearning for greatness, for acts of wondrous heroism.
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."
More important, it has a vein of metaphysical yearning, which the director, Sam Mendes, mines brilliantly.
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.
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."