longing

With Hegseth, this is obvious in his longing to kick women out of combat roles.

Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia remembers seeing Wong Kar-wai’s “Chungking Express” as a teenager and adoring its dreamlike vibe of romantic longing so much that she wanted to hop on the next flight to Hong Kong so she could get lost wandering through the city’s neon-lit streets.

Scott Thomas added that she had been “longing for stability” rather than traveling the world, including sleeping in the same bed for more than two weeks at a time.

I refuse to feel foolish in my longing for more humanity.

The passage of time, grief for those we have lost, longing for a better world that seems perpetually out of reach — all of these things can be frightening.