longing

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

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.

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.

I read James Carville’s New York Times op-ed predicting a Harris victory this past week and felt a dim but distinct longing, somewhere inside, for a vanished world of reassuring wisdom.

They're trying to alleviate the pangs of longing for those not currently with them.