In those moments, I think that longings outstripped sexual identity.
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Could modern India be remade to fit these sentimental longings?
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Reduced to those longings, are any of us so dissimilar?
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Say you were designing a school to elevate and intensify longings.
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They were becoming distant longings, silhouettes, shadows fading on the ground.
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There were longings for deeper love and declarations to do good.
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Is this protectiveness over Kelly's baby going to stir up parental longings?
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Wouldn't you want to provide examples of people who have intense longings?
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These poems channel the artist's restlessness and longings into uncanny, animated visions.
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Each of those quiet lives had longings, dreams, expectations, things that went unfinished.
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A teenager in disguise, coiled with the same longings as every other girl?
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This scene includes both, with Carol Kane as a zombie with white-wine longings.
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They take advantage of people's desire to do good and arouse their higher longings.
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As literary critic, Lukács examined how longings for a lost utopia shaped modern literature.
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Ellis's work, his longings, are in part a byproduct of that singular and terrible event.
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"It brings up memories and longings, wishing they were here for this moment," she said.
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It's a world that exists outside one man's longings, and won't be eclipsed by them.
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The film's title comes from a French poem that reflects the teen-agers' romantic longings.
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Edugyan's characters are molded by the losses, the guilt, and the longings of their pasts.
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Judge isn't a skilled enough writer to evoke the complicated longings that alcohol can instill.
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She's torn between two distinct longings: one for her daughter and another for her freedom.
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It does not, however, preclude love or romantic and sexual longings and all their attendant transcendence.
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CS: So how do you neutralize these longings you have for validation via male sexual desire?
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There's all these longings and all these stirrings—and we're terrified of each other, all of us.
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" He adds, "Judge isn't a skilled enough writer to evoke the complicated longings that alcohol can instill.
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It didn't need to shake the earth; it just needed to express, and answer, basic human longings.
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The author is a psychiatrist in New York City, and she nails her characters and their longings.
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I had to lay bare my grief and fears and longings alongside the research and the interviews.
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No matter how old people get, everyone has joys, hopes, fears, and longings that never go away.
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And so much theorizing about fascist leaders focuses on ideas of their thwarted passions and repressed longings.
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Our longings and our dreams are always going to be bigger than our little lives can satisfy.
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It holds our entire lives these days and stores everything from our private longings to our workaday mundanity.
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But we may have to employ all our technology to create an inheritor species to satisfy our longings.
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The white man's unadmitted -- and apparently, to him, unspeakable -- private fears and longings are projected onto the Negro.
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And Mr. Kreager, though much more contained, likewise backfills Justin's political positions with longings he can hardly name.
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We all have joys, hopes, fears, and longings that never go away no matter how old we get.
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What better way to satisfy those carnal longings than to curl up next to a thicc daikon body pillow?
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After all, Country Garden knows exactly how to appeal to the needs and longings of China's aspirational middle class.
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He's also watching himself watching, wondering how to read the longings and sorrows that urge him, the watcher, on.
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And being nonbinary can feel inexplicable to yourself; the longings for physical alteration can feel both indefinite and indefensible.
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Who is it that is supposed to articulate the longings and aspirations of the people more than the preacher?
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The Moors passed through this impossible country once and left behind their longings, and what can anybody do about that?
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These books understood that girls of a certain age grapple with changing bodies, hidden longings, raging desires, and quaking needs.
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She is a vengeful apparition, who lets it be understood that Clem's maternal longings have far-reaching and destructive consequences.
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That won't be easy, though, due to Venus and Pluto's connection this morning, which is stirring up secrets and forbidden longings.
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I'm still learning, as I go, about the incredible, diverse range of experiences and longings we humans carry around with us.
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The communication is not of unadorned data, but of the more important items in the phenomenological garden: feelings, ideas, experiences, longings.
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Molineu's mercurial daughter, Jeannette, becomes the object of Midhat's romantic longings, their intimacy nurtured by the shared ache of lost mothers.
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In Ms. Parks's telling, Venus comes to be perceived as both the shadowy nadir and blazing ideal of men's erotic longings.
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But onstage he was a flesh-and-blood presence, a human being working through the questions and longings in the songs.
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It awakens other appetites, longings that are too often neglected: for beauty, for strangeness, for the delirious, heedless pursuit of perfection.
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In small doses, it's fine, but chronically elevated levels of cortisol may lead to longings for specific foods like scrumptious crumb cakes.
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He was able to organically understand and channel the longings of the Republican base without needing to round up the usual interlocutors.
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I have witnessed the secrets, desires, longings, dreams, and struggles of everyone from housewives to diplomats to truck drivers to FBI agents.
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" Be smart: "[U]nlike the quiet protests and longings for change of past decades, Catholics in 2018 are demanding accountability — and fast.
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As in "Strange Interlude," characters are wont to break off in mid-conversation to pursue internal monologues of subtextual longings and regrets.
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Our Back Pages In a 1985 essay "Night of Our Ghastly Longings," George Stade declared horror fiction the literary equivalent of Halloween.
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You have to acknowledge that clearly there is some emotional connection going on, some deep fears and deep longings and deep love.
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" In her author bio, Ms. Dalmia describes herself as "a progressive libertarian and an agnostic with Buddhist longings and a Sufi soul.
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I suppose I saw that maybe, just maybe, the poet could transmit all that love to other people, if his longings stayed unfulfilled.
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Like that work, "Venus" considers how a so-called freak became a mirror for the fears, sins and longings of a repressed society.
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Instead, "The Thin Place" keeps on haunting because it presses against the deepest human longings not only for connection but also for exposure.
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As recently as 2014, a biannual survey of right-wing attitudes in Germany found that xenophobia, chauvinism, anti-Semitism and authoritarian longings were declining.
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Imagining that moving home could resolve your conflicts and fulfill your longings was as misguided as imagining that leaving would do the same thing.
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This will result in a critical, picky energy; we'll find ourselves questioning our desirability, and will likely hear a no answer to our longings.
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But this show uses the disparity between words and music to suggest how inadequate most people's vocabularies are in conveying their most ardent longings.
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The party has since abandoned its separatist longings to pursue a broader support base, and in October it dropped the "Nord" from its name.
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It's a realm of misunderstandings, disappointments, unfulfilled longings and everyday betrayals, and Soccer Mommy's songs recount them in a haze of acceptance and resentment.
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Mendes-Flohr emphasizes that this early loss left Buber with a lifelong feeling of abandonment, which in turn fed and shaped his religious longings.
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This summer's wildest rumours, involving purported plots against and sackings of senior figures, probably reveal more about the longings of Xi critics than anything else.
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The genre grants us permission to give weight to the longings of our own hearts, the crises within our own families, our own wayward yearnings.
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A character who is portrayed as fully human — a frayed and interwoven tapestry of flaws, neuroses, aspirations, longings, yearnings, hatreds, envies — cannot be easily likable.
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Her most pressing longings are poignant: to put her hand to her soon-to-be-boyfriend's face, to sleep next to him in the library.
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I have access to her secrets and interior longings and the power to display them at every step of her life, from birth until death.
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When, at 214, she lay battered and swollen on her deathbed, she admonished her sisters not to touch her, lest they be visited with sexual longings.
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We never really talk to each other; instead we box up our hurts and longings and store them for decades, out of sight but not forgotten.
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Fear of discrimination is one of the lamentable reasons why some of these artworks may have been made in the first place — to release suppressed longings.
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Mr. Polendo described the setting as "a space of memory," along the lines of Dia de los Muertos altars, through which spirits communicate their deepest longings.
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A lonely misfit in shorts and a sombrero, precocious yet naïve, Frankie is grappling with a self she doesn't quite know and longings she can't name.
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Her concern that her own depression is a pathetic failure, and perhaps even an imagined hysteria, salts a memoir full of actual hospitalizations and suicidal longings.
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In Act II, when Leila and Nadir, having reunited, sing an impassioned, fraught duet, Ms. Damrau's body twitches with spasms as her character's suppressed longings burst out.
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But listen closely; you'll hear how these portrayals of a mythic, irreparably damaged future grow organically from fears and longings of the women's artfully shaded afternoon chatter.
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From day one, Young's sang with the scars of a man haunted by quiet tragedies and blatant avarice, addictions and desperate longings, personal traumas and political treachery.
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This juxtaposition of the exotic and the banal — and the evidence of sad human longings within it — is clearly meant to elicit strong emotions for the audience.
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Like Ibsen's doomed Hedda, Susan was perceived as a figure of fascinating and fatal perversity, a woman of wildly heroic longings amid oppressive and insular small-mindedness.
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Now, as she reawakens Tom's old longings, he wonders if he can trust this seemingly pathological liar or if his marriage, already threatened, can survive this temptation.
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In the new songs, Hornsby addresses a complex, distressing world with complex music, offering not an escape but a cleareyed recognition of 21st-century pressures and longings.
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Muster the money troubles, the love troubles, the antic clowning, the bone-crushing despair, the inchoate longings for art or truth or just a trip to Moscow.
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As Nathalie, Huppert is a marvelous, unpredictable spectrum of a woman, with her griefs and longings mixed in with a sometimes grim, sometimes open-hearted sense of humor.
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Marilyn Monroe represented sex and innocence simultaneously; she is the vessel into which postwar American culture poured all of its erotic longings and all of its Freudian anxieties.
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On The Crown, Queen Elizabeth is not the impartial, smiling old sovereign we see on TV, but a person with inner turmoil, longings, and a commitment to duty.
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In such a school you might even de-emphasize the G.P.A. mentality, which puts a tether on passionate interests and substitutes other people's longings for the student's own.
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Puberty 2 is, among other things, an argument against desire — an exploration of how the self/body can recoil from its own romantic longings as if physically sick.
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In this light, the character's delusional longings can be seen as speaking less to mental illness than to the anxieties of a middle class fighting to stay relevant.
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Still, Judis would surely wave aside these objections as typical liberal fastidiousness, untuned to the more elemental, raw longings of national identity that liberals need to accommodate fast.
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" Or: "There I was, just turned 22, still sorting out being gay, full of longings, including for a few friends sitting in the first row at this recital.
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There's a terrific sequence in which they remember their inchoate teenage longings (his for her; hers for a teacher's stapler) that summons all those confused crushes of adolescence.
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She does all the Disney Princess™️ things, has the Disney Princess™️ longings, looks after the Disney Princess™️ animal sidekick and sings the Disney Princess™️ songs.
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"Whatever thoughts, feelings and longings they had in themselves could be played out in a band — and in front of an entire arena full of people," Mr. Cooper said.
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And so they suffer and breathe, this procession of living women and men, alive by virtue of their longings and their defeats and their schemes and their truncated hopes.
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The writer-director Stella Meghie understands that you want to see these two beautiful people get together, and she smoothly delivers on your own romantic (and romance genre) longings.
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But suddenly there was a surge in church plants in places like Brooklyn, Washington, D.C., Chicago and San Francisco, as highly educated people found homes for their spiritual longings.
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Fable and chronicle, the cryptic and the confessional, spiritual longings and earthly concerns, folky delicacy and rock impact, motion and meditation all have a place in Jesca Hoop's songs.
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Fable and chronicle, the cryptic and the confessional, spiritual longings and earthly concerns, folky delicacy and rock impact, motion and meditation all have a place in Jesca Hoop's songs.
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Which is to say, we still come to work each day as ourselves — with our own sets of vulnerabilities, our own longings and insecurities and our own experiences and histories.
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People try to compensate for the lack of intimate connection by placing their moral and emotional longings on their political, ethnic and other tribes, turning them viciously on each other.
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Mr. Kim's meeting with the dovish South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, was heady stuff, minutely choreographed to stir the hopes and longings of a nation bitterly divided for 70 years.
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And yet, his yearning is undercut by his lecherous drive, enough to at times make him wish to stay, as long as he finds white female flesh to satiate his longings.
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These are the reasons so many young Jews have found themselves drawn into leftist politics, which address spiritual and communal longings to which their parents' and grandparents' Judaism no longer speaks.
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As the characters spill their longings and regrets, "The Song of Sway Lake" shows it has a fair amount on its mind about class and how cherished locations change over time.
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The only song that affected me was "Worried Shoes," which whispers like a carousel dirge for the longings and hang-ups of a depressive mind spinning on an axis of self recrimination.
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Moments later, "Something's Coming" sets a jumpy tune against a monotonous substrate, dramatizing the longings for escape that propel Tony — the Romeo figure in this updated "Romeo and Juliet" — toward his fate.
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But Sittenfeld doesn't shy away from poking at the soft spots of a person's psyche, the painful longings for something exquisite to cut through the ennui of even the most comfortable lives.
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The announcement offers a green light to start layering the unborn person with signifiers: to plan outfits and decorate rooms, to imagine bonding rituals, to project your own insecurities and unfulfilled longings.
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The announcement offers a green light to start layering the unborn person with signifiers: to plan outfits and decorate rooms, to imagine bonding rituals, to project your own insecurities and unfulfilled longings.
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Take the simmering jealousy found in many female friendships, ratchet it up, and mix in some seriously Ripley-esque longings for upper-crust lifestyles, and you'll land at Anna Pitoniak's utterly enthralling novel.
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Maybe we should sometimes ask ourselves what would happen to the modern society if we all just gave in to "the urge" instead of suppressing our deepest needs and longings all the time.
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They were so tautly fitted that they telegraphed her character's coiled sexual longings; and yet so variously patterned that each change of dress acts to signal a shift in the movie's emotional weather.
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Their regrets and longings, though artfully couched in the "tone of nostalgic resignation verging on melancholy" that Elio finds in Michel's speech, too seldom break through the tasteful decor to truly touch the heart.
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The transaction creates new problems—the guilty father uses drugs, while his wife struggles with her maternal longings—but the fact that there is a ritual in place is its own kind of consolation.
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Shura's Nothing's Real, one of last year's loveliest synthpop albums, captures the mood, wistfully autumnal in its slickly shiny evocation of felt, awkward, apprehensive longings implied to extend beyond the limits of the music.
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Locked in a patriarchal system that condemned their bodies and regulated their passions, erotic religious desire became a vehicle to communicate the subversive longings of the flesh justified in the religious passion for Christ.
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In a recent cover story in National Review, Dougherty makes a much more far-reaching claim that a victim mentality fostered by the radical left creates utopian longings that threaten to upend the political system.
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Each works hard to maintain a cool indifference, but Ms. Covell gives them voice-over narrations that expose their doubts and longings, and remind us that they're just kids who got in over their heads.
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They tend to spend their last years and hours with unfulfilled longings, nursing old hurts, scheming vengeance, reenacting, reinforcing what has long gone before even after the water under the bridge has all dried up.
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She wrote, with sensuous detail, on "the art of eating an olive," on her long walks over Butte's endless "sand and barrenness," on the sexual longings stirred in her by seventeen engraved portraits of Napoleon.
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"I think he has spoken into the frustration and the longings of the American people as no one since the 40th president, and I think you're going to continue to see him do that," Pence said.
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We discussed the literary "explosion" that was Portnoy's Complaint (with its portrayal of a young Jewish man's lusts and longings), the "nearly perfect" novel The Ghost Writer, and why feminists shouldn't turn their backs on Roth.
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"Chicken Lady," along with "Inappropriate Longings" (1992), a large triptych hanging diagonally across from it, a metal bucket of leaves set down in front, are resolutely situated within a locale, rather than a state of consciousness.
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Comprising multiple, loosely interwoven plot threads united as much by the characters' lyrical speech patterns as their end-of-life longings, "Ray Meets Helen" has a wistful, whimsical sophistication that has all but disappeared from movies.
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Quoting from her journals and correspondence would at least have given us a chance to hear her in an adult register — about this very regret, for one thing, but about countless other longings and fantasies, too.
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With Trump we are relentlessly thrown into the Big Shaggy, that unconscious underground of wounds, longings and needs that drive him to do what he does, to tweet what he does, to attack whom he does.
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Practice mindfulness by consciously interrupting your thoughts when you find yourself having longings for the kind of validation from men you don't truly desire and replace them with thoughts about the person you want to be.
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What stretches across Alatalo's diverse body of work is an interest in public and private narratives, and how images and other commercial methods tap into these narratives, revealing what's universal in even our most private longings.
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Yearning Glee-ful early music numbers set up the expected teen longings: the girl who wants to escape her small town, the nice bullied boy racked by unrequited love, the queer kid whose parents don't understand her.
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You'll find all of that in "Giovanni's Room," but transmogrified through layers of Baldwin's deepest longings as a gay man, to be cherished and held, and to be seen and not seen, all at the same time.
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On Thursday, June 22, the soprano Eliza Bagg performs them at Roulette in a multimedia performance directed by Benita de Wit that highlights the longings, desires and shrewdness of women whose voices refuse to be stifled. (roulette.org)
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The arrival of Bridget (Kristen Stewart, wary and watchful), a deceptively timid Irish maid, arouses Lizzie's interest and her father's, too: twin longings that will help explain Lizzie's eventual violence and subvert a plot reeking with male power.
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A large, pristine plexiglass cube appears to drift, a few feet off the ground, among the shacks: the titular ghost, plainly, which haunts the world's innumerable shantytowns with utopian longings but can do nothing to relieve their squalor.
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But one of the many remarkable things about Shakespeare is how defined by place and time he seems -- using Warwickshire slang in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," discussing 16th century theology in Hamlet -- even while he speaks to universal longings.
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Dressed entirely in vampish black (until she discovers happiness and goes in for lighter shades), she uses her artfully displayed legs as a contemptuously wielded weapon and stirs erotic longings in others she has no interest in acting on.
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"Sweetbitter" wants us to see how the inchoate, undefined longings that pull Tess to New York find a focus in the restaurant and how learning about food and wine kick-starts an entire sensibility, an approach to the world.
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For his latest sci-fi short film, The Narrow World, filmmaker Brent Bonacorso envisioned a giant kaiju sitting serenely in Venice Beach, LA. The beast articulates the wild inside of humans—the untapped personality traits, longings, and ambitions left unrealized.
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"The young activists whom conservatives call 'social-justice warriors' practice politics in a form that looks spiritual, and their Marxoid political theories are effulgent with longings and aspirations that point far beyond what we normally think of as politics," Dougherty wrote.
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Although the movie has an indie-film sensibility, there's something widely relatable about the pressures associated with parenting, as well as Marlo's hinted-at longings for the freedom she left behind, spurred by a chance encounter with an old friend.
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Let me try again: It's the fierceness itself, the gusto with which banal human problems—an awful mother or a philandering husband, adulterous longings or a schoolgirl crush—are heightened into glamour and tragedy, that is the soul of melodrama.
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Though its overwrought laments about painful sunderings and doomed relationships may have seemed more theatrical than real, they provided a public platform for private longings, expressing the cultural rupture underlying the heritage of an island and its ceaseless tide of immigrants.
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Instead, it did so because the 20-somethings of the mid-1800s saw it as vital to fulfilling more fundamental longings — vital to maintaining a group of friends, to socializing, to entertainment, to building a career, even to getting laid.
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"Longings to protect one's family from warfare, violence, disease, extreme poverty, and other destitute conditions are universal, driving millions of people to leave their homelands to seek a better life for themselves, their children, and their grandchildren," reads the resolution.
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"The possession of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction is not the answer (to longings for peace)," Francis said in a message delivered at Nagasaki's Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Park, ground zero of the bomb the United States dropped on Aug.
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Even worse, the band behind him is playing delightfully twitchy riffs and rhythms, and it's making him feel things he's never felt before, sensations in his body and longings in his heart he can't control and doesn't know what to do with.
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They have no idea of his secret longings and assume he will go to college and one day settle down with a nice Korean woman, raise a family and be part of the conservative Korean-American culture to which his parents belong.
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What is elided is the 2,000-year history of Jews returning to the country from which they had been exiled, whether in response to longings for a homeland, to pray where they had once prayed, or to find a place of safety.
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" Brothers on a Road Less Traveled, a support group for men who want to stop being attracted to other men, said its method includes developing "an internal sense of masculinity" and "discovering our true needs underlying some of our homosexual longings and triggers.
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But when a puppyish student named Walter (Benoît Magimel) makes a move on her, he finds she isn't a tightly wound spinster dreaming of being swept her off her feet, but a masochist whose longings fall within the realms of both kink and paraphilia.
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Yet far from threatening the novel, Hollinghurst has rejuvenated it, revealing how many more kinds of experience — how many previously unrepresented gestures and impressions and longings and relationships — it was possible to include in a novel than had been dreamed of by literature's straight gatekeepers.
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Two decades into adulthood, it is intoxicating to suspend recognition for a few days of how predictable even our longings have become, to stop and pick a plum in a familiar orchard and imagine what else our remaining years on this complicated planet may hold.
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The secret romantic longings and professional disappointments of people like the Calloways, who spend summers in the Hamptons and live in a Tribeca loft (albeit a rent-stabilized one), might seem too frivolous to be placed at the foreground of a novel, let alone three.
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The film uses the rocker's biggest hits as a trail of bread crumbs; although Taupin writes most of his lyrics, they're still known as Elton John's songs, and in Rocketman, they're also the soundtrack to John's own life, expressions of his longings and sadness and joy.
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If the story of the novel's publication is a story of triumph, the novel itself is not: the longings of Jende Jonga are complicated and fraught and almost totally lacking in the kind of clarity provided by the nationalist clichés that bring the novel to the market.
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But that opacity did not significantly impede the power of the story — as Beck wrote at the Atlantic, our culture cares more about men's romantic longings than about women's, so Joey didn't need to yearn the way that Pacey did for their love story to work.
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But I also just love the idea of serving up a massive alien-invasion / global diplomatic crisis story as what basically amounts to a distraction — the real story being that of Dr. Banks' life, her longings, her grief process, and her total aloneness as a singularly brilliant woman.
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Longings for separate nationhood have roiled the area for generations, and in this new translation Bush offers a fresh look at the region through the context of the Spanish Civil War, a conflict English readers may best know in literature through writers like Ernest Hemingway and Muriel Rukeyser.
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Mr. Johns's early flags and targets, as everyone now knows, rewrote postwar American art by repudiating most everything about Ab Ex — the splashy emotionalism, the metaphysical longings, the well-rehearsed enactments of agony and ecstasy played out against the quaint bohemian backdrop of Tenth Street and the Cedar Tavern.
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I would have had to invent all those other things to fulfill real longings in me, but if no one had ever told me that a person could create a person, and raise them into a citizen … it would have sounded like a task to very much avoid.
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While there's certainly sadness and unanswered questions surrounding Bobbi Kristina's death, TV One is hoping their film — which also stars Vivica A. Fox as Pat Houston — honors Bobbi Kristina's spirit "Bobbi Kristina's high-profile life—and untimely death—may have been shrouded in mystery, but this film will reveal her humor, quirks, deepest fears and longings," the network said.
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Conscious reason can get you only so far when tribal emotions have been aroused, when existential fears rain down, when narcissistic impulses have been given free rein, when spiritual longings have nowhere healthy to go, when social trust has been devastated, when all the unconscious networks that make up 99 percent of our thinking are aflame and disordered.
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Such thunderous floods of hot water, walls and mirror dripping time and again with condensation; such intimate smells, pleasant and unpleasant; such fun, the bubble baths and slippery, screaming games; then, later, such secret longings and excitement and dread, solitary behind the locked door—hair dye and Tampax and vomiting, girl flesh burgeoning out of control.
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Paradoxically, the relentless pep of other Korean girl groups, so eager to please, can strip songs of tension, and everything i becomes overly smooth; here, the same enthusiasm turns delightfully weird, almost an irritant, the source of cognitive dissonance, for if nine singers can hear such a racket and still confess their longings with a smile, something surreal must be going on.
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Up until the first world war, the world was run by a collection of dynasties that possessed every human foible imaginable (from insanity to dwarfism to incestuous longings) and who spent their lives playing the game of thrones: forming dynastic alliances, sometimes even marrying their relatives, going to war over rival family claims to the throne and, above all, scheming to maximise their power.
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That's not to imply that there are not great works out there in that form, only that I tend to lose interest just as soon as magic of any kind enters a story, for this strikes me as escapist, as a denial of the mortal hand we've all been dealt, and I prefer to read those works that confront our reality and limitations and thwarted longings head on.
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Hyde Pierce and the rest of the cast are ideal collaborators for what Bock and Kauffman want to convey, which includes the feeling one gleans from these lines in Cavafy's "Remember, Body": Body, remember not just how much you were loved, not just the beds where you have lain, but also those longings that so openly glistened for you in the eyes, and trembled in the voice—and some chance obstacle arose and thwarted them.
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