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Example sentences for: yearning

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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.
And on our campuses, kente cloths, ancient tea ceremonies, and native dance performances signify not only a resistance to whiteness but also a yearning, among even the most assimilated, to be abroad at home.
Its main op-ed feature was about China's new yearning for international respectability.
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."
It was especially welcomed outside Europe in countries yearning for an alternative to dependence on the U.S. dollar.