yearn

They personify intangibles that sabermetrics can never quantify and that fans yearn to encounter: Hope.

Managers may yearn for the days when daily attendance was a given, but their employees have moved on to a new normal and appear to be in no mood to go back.

A House of Lords report published today says that young disabled people face continuous barriers to employment, while they yearn to thrive in their careers.

This movement seemed to yearn for a specific conception of Western culture - a Nietzschean world in which the fittest survive, where disruption and chaos give birth to greatness.

“I yearn to hug him again myself. I don’t know how much time either of us has left .… He is elderly now, and I have cancer. We can’t afford to wait.”