longing
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The Queen says she was "longing" to share her experience while launching a cancer support centre just days after learning of her husband's diagnosis, according to the Daily Express.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It isn’t that the stakes are low, or that conflict is nonexistent, but that the drama is driven by issues of connection, identity, love and longing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
She says she loves her summer job and is very aware many of her friends are at home and longing to be able to work.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Ms. Aviv opens her book by describing her own mother’s longing to become a writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
With that longing in my heart, I closed my eyes and actually fell asleep right there on the school bench.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
I discussed and debated life’s big questions and foundational topics with my celly: the complication of family dynamics, our greatest fears and regrets, our deepest longings for the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
‘Gods of Want,’ author K-Ming Chang’s follow-up to her dazzling debut, ‘Bestiary,’ collects stories of young immigrants haunted by ghosts and longings.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025
He read contemporary American fiction, because he hoped to find a resonance, a shaping of his longings, a sense of the America that he had imagined himself a part of.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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