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Example sentences for: yearnings

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Born in 1903 to parents who never married (her father, William Boothe, was already married to someone else), Clare was the repository of her socially frustrated mother's yearnings for a brilliant destiny.
One True Thing taps into the same yearnings as Field of Dreams (1989), only for mothers and daughters instead of fathers and sons.
Romantic yearnings for an imaginary past were, to him, anathema, and conservatives of many kinds were early subject to his critical strictures: The rights of man [the conservative] has gradually grown used, after long years of disquietude, to hear talked of, without apprehension of catalepsy; but you must wait for his son, or for his son's son, if you would get a candid hearing for the rights of woman.
That might have worked if his characters showed signs of having deeper yearnings, the way they do in many of Paul Mazursky's Los Angeles-set satires, so that there would be some tension between what they think they want and what they actually need.
Unlike Gauguin's literal flight to Tahiti, van Gogh didn't need to go to Japan to fulfill his exotic yearnings.