longing
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"The relief on his face was very obvious, and he said, send a message to everybody, send them my love, tell them I love them and tell them I'm longing to see them."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The title song pictures him encountering her, and longing for her, in grade school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 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
Jeremy found himself longing to touch the gleaming red scales.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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
One of our most fundamental longings as social beings is to belong, especially to a community.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2024
Roman's observation underscores how difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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