yearningly

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Which brings me to Pine’s latest, “The Contractor,” a thriller that yearningly evokes the Bourne series while never approaching its level.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

The earlier 1990s records had been more yearningly odd and exploratory, but the five Magnetic Fields albums that followed 69 Love Songs inevitably fell under its elongated shadow.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2017

She vomited that news out, mockingly, yearningly, with a shrug or with a finger pointed at the audience.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

Exhibitions and installations by international stars round out the permanent collection, which includes Anselm Kiefer’s yearningly beautiful Seven Heavenly Palaces, produced for the 2004 opening.

From Forbes • Sep. 20, 2014

I crossed restlessly to the window and pushed back the long fluffy white curtains—which I had been forbidden to touch—and looked yearningly out into the empty street.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright