longing
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Rekha, a widow, remembers the colony with longing.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
So he submits to the gladhanding and the selfies, longing for the days of autographs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The only way through this marital disconnect and fear of and longing for retirement is through the figures.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The longing is what makes life beautiful and also impossible.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
When they breathed life back into her, she glowed again, a place for memories to be cast in silver, for breathless whispers and longing gazes, for stories to come alive and live endlessly.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
In many ways, Monroe is, and was, a piece of art herself, onto which we could project our own longings and adulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
He has no apparent convictions, only Freudian longings for an idealized childhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
His voice - bruised, buttery and intimate - has been an inescapable undercurrent of Bollywood, narrating heartbreaks, longings and reconciliations for millions for more than a decade.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
But if there were any chance of changing my mind and taking the plunge, watching “Welcome to Derry” has permanently exorcised any phantom longings.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025
I loved them both, but they satisfied different longings.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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