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
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
If there are any lessons for Hollywood to learn from “Obsession,” it’s to not take shortcuts to the prize you’re longing for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
It’s tempting to think that if the Swans were shopping in 2026, they’d be longing to once again hear the friendly tones of an L.L.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 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
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
The setting is still a Swiss alpine hamlet, but the villagers are all members of some puritanical sect and its sleepwalking heroine, Amina, has longings that transcend its limits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
“It’s very mixed. It’s heartbreaking, honestly,” said Wavell, who began processing aloud, once more, the longings of the heart, the musings of the mind, and the complexities of staying, of going, of not knowing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2025
One of our most fundamental longings as social beings is to belong, especially to a community.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2024
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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