longed

Televangelists have longed manufactured spiritual crises of various types — for themselves, for the church, for society and for the world — to drive donations.

“I just justified it by saying if I don’t buy it someone else is going to buy it. The phones were going to be sold, and I longed for that connection.”

The lonely nights during Christmas season, when he longed for the taste of his mother’s cooking.

We got the bearpit battle that we have longed to see for a month and the Lions victory will be remembered more fondly because of it.

He’d done something reckless to a cultural landmark, but as an angsty teenager who loved rock and longed to rebel, it didn’t make much of dent on my impression of him or his music.