480 Sentences With "yearned"

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No data exist on whether they also yearned for freedom. from Economist
Back in the '90s, Donald Trump yearned for Princess Diana. from Refinery 29
In 2015, I said I yearned for George W. Bush. from Vox
My whole life I've yearned for a love that strong. from Refinery 29
She dated lightly, yet sometimes yearned for a big love. from The New York Times
These are the moments of normalcy she once yearned for. from Vice
People yearned to discuss it, they just needed a trigger. from The New York Times
But he yearned for a more fixed location for opera. from The New York Times
Unlike more telegenic colleagues, he never yearned to be president. from The New York Times
Mr. Miller had yearned for such a trip for years. from The New York Times
With all the stillness, many of us yearned for distraction. from The New York Times
Growing up, I always yearned for personal affection and affirmation. from Business Insider
I yearned to go back in time and do more. from Vice
At 12, I yearned to be any kind of normal. from Vox
Having failed to repeal Obamacare, they yearned for a legislative victory. from CNBC
After she died, I yearned for her involvement in my life. from Vice
"Voters yearned for change, for someone genuine and sincere," Grisolano wrote. from The Hill
I've yearned for an art world that would do just that. from Hyperallergic
As word spread, more people yearned to proselytise the Bikram method. from Economist
But underneath her laughter, she still yearned for her brother's love. from Vice
But how I yearned for the world of the well pond! from New Yorker
But Mr. Shturman's children yearned to live in the United States. from The New York Times
For years, political junkies have yearned for a brokered national convention. from The Hill
Despite everything, he yearned to feel the warmth of Thorpe's approval. from The New York Times
Making partner there remains a yearned-for rank on Wall Street. from The New York Times
Now we yearned for all places and found peace in none. from The New York Times
We yearned for great deeds and vowed silently to accomplish them. from The New York Times
At the vocational school in Osnabrück, the apprentices yearned for change. from The New York Times
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Justin Thomas yearned to win a major, any major. from The New York Times
He also said the Democratic party "has yearned for a fighter." from Business Insider
But he also yearned to be free if you get my point. from Vice
Meagan Guy, 17, once yearned to simply attend a week at camp. from Vice
They yearned for healthy, affordable meals they could get on the go. from CNN
The Astros and their fans have yearned for a moment like this. from The New York Times
The Crafoord was gratifying, but he seems to have yearned for more. from The New York Times
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Mark Morrisroe always yearned for fame. from Hyperallergic
Enrique yearned for his mother and a decade later, came after her. from The New York Times
The verdict also encouraged those who yearned for social change in Britain. from The New York Times
He yearned to be in that spotlight, competing for a national championship. from The New York Times
He yearned for bipartisanship, at least when he wasn't modeling the opposite. from The New York Times
They also lusted, and yearned, and fell in and out of love. from The New York Times
""It might seem crazy but I yearned for the sleepless nights, 3 a.m. from Refinery 29
Fans have long yearned for its rich story to be adapted to film. from Buzzfeed News
He became a propagandist for communists, venerated Chairman Mao and yearned for revolution. from Economist
Some yearned for a nominee who had lived life outside the judicial monastery. from CNN
I yearned for someone to praise and inspire me, but so did she. from The New York Times
Their mother, who died many years ago, had yearned for such a day. from Fox News
She's yearned for freedom in general, but what's her specific goal this season? from People
Her fans yearned for more material, all the while respecting her resolute privacy. from The New York Times
" Democrats yearned to have Mueller scream "Collusion!" like Marlon Brando once screamed "Stella! from The New York Times
I've always yearned for a monument to the Woman Who Burned Down Manhattan. from The New York Times
The early socialists yearned for a world where men and women were equal. from The New York Times
As a professional, Freeland yearned to be a firefighter running into the blaze. from The New York Times
After having major surgery recently, I yearned to slip back into the sea. from The New York Times
But calls to his mother, which he yearned for, usually left him disappointed. from The New York Times
Trump has yearned for a legal bulldog akin to his mentor Roy Cohn. from The Hill
So it was that I yearned to dine on ptarmigan shit without a camouflage. from Vice
The Hound will get the catharsis he's yearned for since he was a child. from Refinery 29
I missed grocery shopping, yearned for shopping at the local farmsteads, missed scanning recipes. from The New York Times
It's a hardcore fan base that has yearned for mainstream acceptance of the sport. from Vice
In high school, I yearned for an adviser, but that was a pipe dream. from Refinery 29
I yearned to know what it felt like to like the skin you're in. from Mashable
She stayed there for a decade but yearned for a place of her own. from The New York Times
Even as his reputation grew in Paris, he yearned for brighter times in Haiti. from The New York Times
My swimming coach was in many ways the father I had always yearned for. from The New York Times
Florence yearned to be an opera singer, but she exaggerated her talent and training. from The New York Times
He yearned to see the world, and asked to be stationed aboard a boat. from The New York Times
But as he got older, he yearned for a deeper relationship with his father. from The New York Times
Chinese entrepreneurs, he said, yearned for the rule of law to replace arbitrary power. from The New York Times
With her mother now living in a nursing home, Yearwood yearned to do something more. from CNBC
This artist-entrepreneur yearned for a more hands-on connection with what was being created. from CNBC
Others yearned to go back, but simply could not swing the cost of child care. from The New York Times
I almost yearned for them, the bad things, so strong was my desire to know. from New Yorker
"It was the life I yearned for, but not the life I wanted," she said. from New Yorker
But he yearned for a Joyce of his own, and in 1932 he found one. from New Yorker
But after three years at the height of fine dining, Giusti yearned for something different. from The Hill
When Garbo fell in love, her whole body quivered upward toward what she yearned for. from The New York Times
But, by 30, the sheen had worn off and Marks yearned for a fresh start. from CNBC
She liked the Disney Princesses, but yearned for one with her skin tone and curly hair. from People
Baseball was his path to fame and greatness, but he yearned to be a rock star. from The New York Times
Finally, I was watching the reactions I'd yearned to see when I was 10 years old. from Vox
For a long time, fans yearned for "Metroidvanias" largely because so few were actually being made. from The Verge
Knoll turned to her books to create the examples she yearned to encounter in real life. from Refinery 29
Although he grew up with loving and supportive parents, Watts yearned to connect with his past. from People
In the weeks following Trump's inauguration, the world yearned for something—anything—good to latch onto. from Mashable
And, dear reader, ever since that day I have yearned to be like Hunter S Thompson. from Vice
After two years of biding his time and learning the game, he yearned to do more. from Vice
For those who yearned for a rainbow nation, it was not supposed to be this way. from The New York Times
" Barnett told CNN Business that nature programming provides a "much yearned for sense of communal watching. from CNN
I feel freedom in me since I did get the education that I really yearned for. from CNN
Democrats have yearned for a moment of political exoneration ever since Hillary Clinton's defeat in 2016. from The New York Times
Friendly but shy, he yearned to find a meaningful relationship but struggled to connect with women. from The New York Times
As a child, she yearned to work outdoors on the farm, but her father forbade it. from The New York Times
The designer described the experience as "poetic and formative," yet he yearned to create something new. from The New York Times
Santopadre steered him toward his schoolwork, his family and his friends when he yearned to compete. from The New York Times
I had wanted out of school and, after a landlocked upbringing, yearned to see an ocean. from New Yorker
Perhaps the RNC outbreak will bring the renewed attention to norovirus that researchers have yearned for. from Vox
I yearned to know the stories behind them but their potential relevance and messages fall silent. from Hyperallergic
I resented this stereotype of the hypermasculine black brute, but I also yearned to evoke its fury. from Vice
Carlinda had velvety dark skin and an hourglass figure that I both yearned for and lusted after. from The Verge
Perhaps it was a natural development as a boy approached his teenage years and yearned for independence. from Buzzfeed News
Any "Harry Potter" fan who ever yearned for a Hogwarts acceptance letter will love this personalized gift. from Business Insider
But when I first met Toback back in the fall of 1997, I yearned for the spotlight. from Vice
Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the nation yearned for heroes to save them from the turmoil. from CNN
If Clinton, like all aspiring novelists, yearned for his book to sell, he chose the right wingman. from New Yorker
No, we didn't get the multiballot floor fight that many people — O.K., many reporters — had yearned for. from The New York Times
But throughout her career, she has always yearned for a different part than the ones she played. from Reuters
But the second those food rules became commandments in my mind, I, a sinner, yearned to stray. from Refinery 29
This looked set to give Maynard another chance at competing for the lightweight title he yearned for. from Vice
Some were open to negotiation with the North; others yearned for the country's unification under Communist leadership. from The New York Times
And it was for an escape to that openness that some Chinese urbanites yearned in centuries past. from The New York Times
She was ethereally thin, a wisp, the size I've yearned to be my entire life to be. from Refinery 29
Like an ill-fitting polyester suit, this identity itched, and I yearned to wear something more comfortable. from The New York Times
It's not the first time that television success has blessed viewers with more of what they yearned for. from CNN
Max (Nathan Dean Parsons), who yearned for her in high school, is a cop — and a literal alien. from Buzzfeed News
My dad came of age during the birth of the black power movement, and yearned to be different. from Vice
In the half-century since, the unalloyed "party of principles" Mr. Lewis yearned for has come to pass. from The New York Times
I yearned for blue eyes, a certain type of whiteness that would never quite be available to me. from Vice
At some point, many a twentysomething yearned to be part of a clique like the one in Friends. from Refinery 29
If making music magic performance is any indicator, then it seems they also yearned for that special moment. from Vice
They yearned to stay young and to live forever, with loved ones nearby and snack food piled high. from The New York Times
Like so many people before him — and after — Gabriel yearned for the utopian vision his leaders had promised. from Refinery 29
Elisabeth, a regional planner, yearned to take up gardening and cooking — and live in a sunny, rustic setting. from The New York Times
Locke yearned for something solid: a home for black art, somewhere to nourish, protect, refine, and control it. from New Yorker
As a little girl, Ms. Talton knew she wanted to help people, and yearned to be a psychiatrist. from The New York Times
You may never have yearned so much for a show's heroine to calm down, even for a second. from The New York Times
" But he yearned to coach: "I missed teaching, being around young people, recruiting, getting a result every Saturday. from The New York Times
Growing up in an all-female household, I never owned a gaming console and never yearned for one. from The New York Times
Though she'd long yearned to work on spaceflight, she feared there would be little demand for her arcane expertise. from Wired
I yearned for what was in those books — a freedom to go anywhere I pleased without feeling lost, alien. from Buzzfeed News
Yet, another part of him yearned for something different, like being friends with that cute Latino guy at work. from Vice
SINCE the financial crisis, many left-leaning American commentators have yearned for more deficit spending to reflate the economy. from Economist
However, the technology's main users were bereft parents who had lost a child and yearned for an identical replacement. from Economist
I disliked my body and desperately yearned for attention from boys in my class, though I didn't receive any. from The New York Times
He yearned for the food he ate at home and hoped to celebrate Independence Day with traditional Acholi dishes. from Vice
Investors have yearned for years to know more about Google's giant businesses, outside its core search advertising revenue stream. from CNBC
But how I missed it when it was gone, how I yearned for it to speak to me again. from The New York Times
I have yearned to live in Chicago since I first visited the Mercantile Exchange located right on Wacker Drive. from Business Insider
Many people said that they found the experience refreshing and that they yearned for more public space like this. from The New York Times
She yearned to embrace her sister, but soon she would have her own passport, and visit her in Mexico. from The New York Times
At the age when many girls begin to care about their shapes, I yearned for a more voluptuous frame. from Refinery 29
There was one thing that he yearned to do: Mullen had never been abroad, or even on an airplane. from New Yorker
Wire-service reporting was by nature a mechanical exercise, however, and Richard yearned to write longer, more narrative pieces. from New Yorker
He rightly railed against the bloodshed and poverty that make people flee their homes, saying Mexico yearned for peace. from The New York Times
I want her to know how many people prayed and yearned for her for years before she even existed. from Refinery 29
There are, of course, some changes for which Twitter users have hopelessly yearned for years (editing tweets; banning Nazis). from The New York Times
Where Jay Gatsby was looking to earn Daisy Buchanan's affections, Low yearned to be close to celebrities like Paris Hilton. from Vice
If you've yearned to wear your wink face on your sleeves, or your streaks on your head — you're in luck. from Refinery 29
Ever since I ditched the dyed black, heavily-fringed hair of my 2006 emo phase, I've yearned for beachy waves. from Refinery 29
Everyone who's heard the Utopia has been thrilled by that headphone pair's precision but yearned for a touch more bass. from The Verge
Explorers dreaming of Africa's El Dorado, with prizes and wealth for doing so waiting back home, yearned to remedy this. from Economist
More importantly, it appeased all of us who have yearned for the youthful pair to rekindle their long-lost rapport. from CNN
While royalty yearned to recreate an impossible past, the makers of cramped Place Dauphine worked to build a possible future. from TechCrunch
When she studied primate behavior, she contemplated human competition, noting how bonobos were drawn to the teamwork she yearned for. from The New York Times
President Obama yearned to make justice reform part of his legacy and lobbied for it in public and in private. from Vice
Since the dawn of recorded history, man has yearned to discover just how far he can throw a washing machine. from Vice
Yet I yearned to have a sounding board that didn't involve my family, who worried too much about me already. from Vice
When they reopened after the movement ended in 1976, it was clear just how much the country yearned for education. from The New York Times
She could not shake the image of herself as a statistic — a high school dropout — and yearned to escape it. from The New York Times
The development of smartphone products kept her in the US, but after a while, she yearned for a new challenge. from Business Insider
A native of Trinidad, she was tired of New York winters and yearned to understand more about her ancestral foods. from The New York Times
When Clinton mentioned how it had been a "long, long campaign," viewers likely agreed and yearned for its promised end. from Vox
But after years of fertility struggles, Foster is relishing every single minute with the family she yearned for for so long. from People
It must be the color Renaissance painters yearned for when painting pictures of God in heaven — sublime, gentle, powerful, and singular. from Vox
While he yearned to become a member of the Special Forces, he dropped out after two days, disheartened by the training. from Fox News
Still, part of her yearned she could have been the on the delivery table when baby Chi was born in January. from Refinery 29
Because the reality is, this mothering stuff can be challenging beyond words, no matter how much we yearned for the role. from Refinery 29
My Teenage Obsession With 'How Things Work' Growing up with a schizophrenic mother, I yearned to make sense of the world. from The New York Times
Inspired by a commuter tinkering with his calculator on the train, game designer Yokoi yearned to create a handheld gaming device. from Business Insider
But he yearned to return to Brazil and work on ameliorating the massive health disparities that he saw in his youth. from TechCrunch
Meanwhile, some cravings are truly one of a kind (shout out to the woman who only yearned for squid and milk). from Refinery 29
I watched these coming-of-age stories because I similarly yearned for my own escape from the stifling whiteness of suburbia. from Vice
During the nearly four centuries of subjugation to Ottoman rule, Greeks yearned for liberation and many saw Russia as their salvation. from The New York Times
" A moment that got me, in Copland's solemn setting, explains further that "free liking is yearned for over all other thing. from The New York Times
For decades, the fans had yearned for a player like Hosmer with the talent and charisma to stir a dormant franchise. from The New York Times
Howe's husband, Samuel, a prominent Boston educator and intellectual, yearned for a submissive wife, fulfilled by her marital and maternal duties. from New Yorker
But a couple of years ago, it became clear to both of them that De Cotiis yearned to create a home. from The New York Times
From these digital relationships sprang not just the work-oriented wisdom I yearned for, but also friendships and even job opportunities. from Refinery 29
I yearned to be next to my sister, our shoulders touching and heads inclining toward each other in our dark closet. from The New York Times
The film centers on the father-son relationship between Perkins, who had five daughters, and Wolfe, who yearned for a muse. from New Yorker
The delicious whirl of a psychological thriller gives audiences the chance to dance around a little yearned-for truth and reconciliation. from Reuters
The Twilight Zone came about after Serling was tired of fighting with censors over the socially conscious stories he yearned to tell. from Refinery 29
She yearned to fly, but they wouldn't let her try for a pilot's licence—a weak reflex in an ankle, they said. from Economist
As rulers of a literal gangster-state, three generations of the Kim dynasty have yearned to be treated as equals by America. from Economist
I think the party has yearned for a fighter – a fighter for good, if you will – for a significant period of time. from Fox News
Peter Fader, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has long yearned for the city life. from CNBC
But a group revolt — which many Trump critics have yearned for — could also come across to viewers as pompous and self-serving. from The New York Times
Indeed. The nation, already well aware of the mounting public health scourge, had yearned, in this moment, for a measure of comfort. from CNN
Yet as a Japanese-American, he had also yearned to be treated equally and felt that everyone should be treated with dignity. from The New York Times
At James Veloria, a tiny vintage shop, you can revisit the clothes you yearned for before Y2K — if you can find it. from The New York Times
To fill its classrooms, one school opened its doors to women who have yearned for decades to learn to read and write. from The New York Times
And if you haven't yet yearned for actors to be replaced by comedic puppets, you most certainly will after reading this article. from Mashable
The Neediest Cases Fund HALBA, Lebanon — In her three-room apartment here, Fatima al-Ewy yearned for her old life in Syria. from The New York Times
Elias, the teenager who yearned for a soccer ball, took care of Kefalos and brought him medicine when the photographer was sick. from Vice
Trump instinctively recognized that the American public was fed up with these extremes and yearned for a President who could get things done. from CNN
But instead of the new beginning that protesters had yearned for, months of chaos and bloodshed have followed and dominated news coverage worldwide. from CNN
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney finally has the inflation he yearned for but there's too much of it at the wrong time. from Reuters
I yearned for life to slow down and at the same time, for the hours to tick by faster, the seasons to change. from Vice
At least with the maximalist trend, a person might get to the yearned-for destination of glamour on the strength of their skill. from Buzzfeed News
Life at the top of the city's restaurant scene became a soul-sucking endeavor, and eventually, she says, she just yearned for simplicity. from Vice
A peace-loving China yearned to work with foreign navies to secure international sea-lanes and safeguard the ocean's riches, Mr Xi declared. from Economist
HE OUTLIVED all his country's other founding fathers, but failed in what he most yearned for: to lead it into a lasting peace. from Economist
I was comfortable being the outsider in a scene of outsiders, but part of me yearned for indie fans to be more diverse. from Vice
The youngest brother, Jacques, who had yearned to become a Catholic priest, travelled to India and the Persian Gulf, expanding the firm's reach. from Economist
The expected stormclouds stayed away but the crowd was denied what it yearned for: a French victor in this most French of arenas. from Reuters
In response, she created an aspirational universe geared toward working women who yearned for advancement, wanting to fake it till they make it. from The New York Times
We walked on, thinking about the country our parents had chosen for us, the sunny land that we had yearned to call home. from The New York Times
After a long day on the barricades, it seems that even the political activists yearned to get inducted into the Summer of Love. from The New York Times
But while he and his three sisters recall that he always yearned for a "Father Knows Best" upbringing, that wasn't what he got. from The New York Times
My characters yearned, but they also ruminated on inherited trauma, took care of their ailing family members, and began new lives across the world. from Refinery 29
Even the administration's toughest critics must concede that Trump has given the conservative movement many of the victories for which it has long yearned. from CNN
Since her husband Donald Trump's controversial presidency, she's often yearned for the peace and simplicity of her pre-White House life, sources told PEOPLE. from People
They were suffragists and careerists who yearned for more than they were given—and at least one of them was related to Margaret Sanger. from Vice
What he yearned for most, though, was peace of mind and a sense of when his life might return to some semblance of normalcy. from Buzzfeed News
But they also nostalgically yearned for the appearances of yesteryear, from the likes of One Direction to Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Demi Lovato. from Refinery 29
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Natural gas producers have long yearned for a price spike in coal that would allow them to compete in Asian power generation. from Reuters
In his work, as in his life, he struggled to realise the brave new Jewish state he and his parents' generation had yearned for. from Economist
My study of early utopias and dystopias, which I had of course yearned to write but which I had not felt able to do. from Vox
They were a miracle, an escape, a yearned-for fairy tale in a time when people faced the harsh realities of the Great Depression. from The New York Times
I was a follower, always, not a leader; but I secretly yearned to be the kind of kid who would be chosen as chief. from The New York Times
Whenever possible, we traveled back to my mother's house in Genthod, near Geneva, but I yearned to share more with Sébastien as he grew. from The New York Times
In an alleged transcript of a phone conversation between the adulterous couple, the public learned that the Prince yearned to be his ladylove's tampon. from New Yorker
Orlando made the largest offer to O'Neal, but the big center yearned for something new and he chose instead to sign with the Lakers. from The New York Times
This time he received no positive market feedback, even though the administration has begun marshaling federal resources with the urgency investors have yearned for. from CNN
I yearned for more and didn't stop until I hit the bottom of the bowl, which was blissfully free of any unpopped tooth-breakers. from The New York Times
As they began to approach their preteen years, the family yearned for more space, and Ms. Donovan and Mr. Crawford switched things up again. from The New York Times
Ms. Eichorn recalled that when she and her brother were young and their mother was touring overseas, they yearned for her to come home. from The New York Times
"K-pop was something I always yearned for and I was never brave enough to reach out to," he said, citing the rigorous training. from The New York Times
And last year, Mr. Pearson, a conservative Republican, yearned for a change in the White House, despite his misgivings about the candidate promising it. from The New York Times
The anecdote gives a poignant glimpse of Bach's personality: he yearned to join the international élite, but the trappings of success were denied him. from New Yorker
Lady Macbeth yearned for night "that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heavens peep through the blanket of the dark". from Economist
For years, the nurse from Riyadh followed wrestling from afar and yearned for the day when women would take the ring in her country. from The New York Times
Still, Representative Dave Loebsack, a veteran Democrat whose district covers Iowa's southeastern quadrant, said he believed that even partisan Iowans yearned for political reconciliation. from The New York Times
What was striking was how instantly her work was embraced after it was rediscovered — like a missing piece somehow anticipated and long yearned for. from The New York Times
Other countries have pushed ahead with national drone networks, and professional operators in the US have long yearned to follow them up, up, and away. from Wired
I resented when family members pointed out that I talked like her or had thick thighs like her, because I yearned to become a man. from Vice
Despite discussions of honoring her diverse roots, the mother of two noted she yearned for America whenever she traveled abroad for long periods of time. from People
The defendants, all young Somali-Americans from Minneapolis, once yearned to fight in Syria, and they supported one another in their efforts to travel there. from Wired
"Those who voted for Moon Jae-in last year yearned for a different world where fairness and hard work are valued and rewarded," he said. from Reuters
Ms. Seligsohn yearned to be so fully American that she recalled buying Halo shampoo to turn her hair blond, as promised by the popular commercials. from The New York Times
Even if the leadership in Blackfoot Company lacked direction, Bergdahl still had a job to do and follow the rigid Army standard he yearned for. from Mashable
Unemployment and low wages during the Great Depression made farmers want to "shoot the banker," while others yearned for a "revolution" to displace greedy capitalists. from The Hill
No mention of eggs by accident, no discussion of turkey sandwiches that I sometimes ate for lunch, or my favorite chicken enchiladas I yearned for. from The New York Times
White Southerners created ideologically driven narratives that yearned for the Good Ole Days where whites sat atop the hierarchy and African Americans were faithful slaves. from Vox
Square Feet PHILADELPHIA — Peter Fader, a professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has long yearned for the city life. from The New York Times
And the child-me yearned for tradition, as when, on family vacations to the Outer Banks, my mother and I had searched for sea treasures. from The New York Times
The former national swimmer still yearned to incorporate her passion for the water into a profession, but struggled to find the means to do so. from CNN
Here, "Wanted" is the definition; "52-week" is a YEAR, and "study to be over" is NED — the reverse of den — to get you YEARNED. from The New York Times
But in my heart, I yearned to see Mercury rip through "Fat Bottomed Girls" in that famous bright green uni-thong we all know and love. from Vice
With radio listeners now viewing me as an intellectual, back on TV I've got the space to be that thing I've always yearned to be: Sexy. from Vice
This memorial compels us all to redouble our efforts to change the world, to find peace and build the future so yearned for by citizens everywhere. from CNN
When you look at how quickly mobile money was adopted by Ugandans — it became powerful not because it was imposed but because people yearned for it. from TechCrunch
Lee had rehired Kirby to work on simpleminded monster stories for what was now called Atlas Comics, but Kirby yearned to create epic space-god cosmologies. from Wired
While I have always yearned for love and acceptance, especially from my mother, I am completely dedicated to living my life the way I want to. from Vice
As a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR -- the UN refugee agency -- I have met many young refugees who yearned to get an education, just as I did. from CNN
There, the girls would get a glimpse of how the other half lived and they yearned for it to become their standard of living, as well. from Refinery 29
Over the years, she also saw how Bobbi Kristina yearned for her mom's attention, and how her mom's drug addiction kept Whitney more and more isolated. from People
Yet Jews throughout the world, particularly in the Yiddish-inflected left, yearned for this remote spot, designated by the Soviet government as a Jewish autonomous region. from The New York Times
She had yearned to own a house with a priest hole—or an attic, at least, with a trunk full of yellowed letters and long dresses. from New Yorker
Knowing it could be like this, I yearned to live my life in the kitchen differently, to stop quaking in my apron and cook not afraid. from Vice
He said he yearned to follow the directions of Pope Paul VI, who had asked the members of the United Nations to lay down their arms. from The New York Times
I kept making trade-offs with myself about the men whose photos and short bios scrolled by, and I yearned to be flexible and nonjudgmental. Sure. from The New York Times
It ranks around the fifth or sixth most popular sport in the country, and the country's golf enthusiasts have long yearned for a native-born star. from The New York Times
I exulted in this; it seemed as though I had finally cleared the last hurdle between me and the mundane heterosexual existence I had yearned for. from The New York Times
I told her what I found interesting about Olga, the bearded lady, was that she yearned to be a stenographer and kept geraniums on her windowsill. from The New York Times
He and Corrine live the kind of life that the hero of "Bright Lights" yearned for, complete with those de-rigueur Sunday-afternoon trips to museums. from New Yorker
Obama said he and the artist who painted him, Kehinde Wiley, were both raised by single mothers and yearned to learn more about their absent fathers. from Politico
The video, for Morris, is a comment on the things he saw in a community that yearned for socioeconomic improvements but also communicated through personal aesthetics. from Vice
Brazil has long yearned for a big, showcase UFC event since the promotion returned to the country in August 2198 at UFC 2198 in Rio de Janeiro. from Vice
Yet despite the surface-level similarities, A Year In The Life doesn't quite feel like the same show I remembered, re-watched, and yearned for more of. from Refinery 29
My love of comic books and my weird childhood obsession with Greek mythology depicted heroes who performed terrific feats, and I yearned to do something incredible, too. from Vice
Ms. Sokoloff, the brand strategist who yearned for a digital vacuum cleaner, wondered if there wasn't some emotional cost in making all traces of a relationship disappear. from The New York Times
My parents had separated when I was two years old, and I never yearned for them to get back together because their separation was all I'd known. from Vice
After a few months, he was signed but realized he yearned for the life of an American teenager: getting a driver's license and going to the prom. from The New York Times
Having very little in common with her, save the close approximation of dressing quarters, a bit of me yearned to be as cool and composed as Sade. from The New York Times
Thomas's outspoken nature, despite his being the new guy, is all anyone heard, no matter how many times he also said he yearned to make this work. from The New York Times
In the rural area, Ms. Anumula met child laborers who had dropped out of school, yet yearned to be able to read the hefty novels she carried. from The New York Times
On Friday, some voters said they yearned for a candidate with Biden-like credentials, while others said they wanted one with a Sanders-like aversion to war. from The New York Times
I wanted quiet, but I also yearned for the church bells to ring out in celebration of a mighty writer whose voice rang clearly in my head. from Washington Post
When Pantone announced 2016's two Colors of the Year, "Serenity" blue and "Rose Quartz" pink, back in December, we yearned for weather warm enough to rock them. from People
Perhaps the American Dream, once yearned for by new immigrants and settled Americans alike, is not even possible these days – or can be invoked only with sneering irony. from Economist
While Marilyn Monroe gained popularity as a sought-after pinup before she became a movie star, the blonde bombshell yearned to be recognized for more than her appearance. from Fox News
But in the documentary, Junior admitted he didn't want to suffer from a similar fate and instead, yearned to be a hands-on parent to his own children. from Fox News
And for Sakamoto, announcing the title yesterday provided a profound sense of relief — it's both a game fans were clamoring for and a game he yearned to make. from The Verge
On a particularly quiet day in March (they all seemed quiet that spring), a Mets official mentioned that the team yearned to grab Mike Piazza from the Dodgers. from The New York Times
The piece the Latvian violinist Baiba Skride, 34, yearned to play as a student was Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 2, but her teachers deemed it too emotionally taxing. from The New York Times
What his music yearned for and allowed us to imagine were new forms of being together, new intensities of desire and love in keener visions and sharper sounds. from The New York Times
For Ensler, 65, writing his apology — which she's yearned for most of her life, even after her father's death 31 years ago — was a form of personal healing. from People
Although the $30,000 paycheck (plus expenses) would benefit her family, she also yearned to share the joy she knew by helping a woman who struggled to give birth. from CNN
He had yearned to be a jet mechanic in the Marines, and eventually an F.B.I. agent, saving money and helping his close-knit family to a better life. from The New York Times
But anyone thinking that Mr. Trump is going to suddenly adopt a more cautious, strategic approach yearned for by election-conscious congressional Republicans is likely to be disappointed. from The New York Times
Kovalski said he grew up attending Whalers games and yearned for the team's return, even if that would require tearing down the XL Center and starting from scratch. from Vice
That being said, I yearned for a denim version; I wanted a slightly more casual look that still had the same dressy, crisp feel of my OG trousers. from Refinery 29
Denise M. Morrison, weaned on assurances from her father that the future would someday be led by women, yearned for the executive suite years before she occupied it. from The New York Times
The atmosphere was one of hopelessness – Like many in Kabul, Omaid yearned for freedom, but the notion of opposing the Taliban was unthinkable after witnessing multiple public decapitations. from The Hill
It also comes in five different metallic colors, including a gold option that looks just like the elusive gold Silly Putty you yearned for back in the day. from Mashable
I could be bullied, I could be screamed at, things I yearned for could be snatched away without explanation, but when I was really hungry, they didn't affect me. from Vox
However, as a child growing up in Milan, The Derby was the race he yearned to win, spurned on by his father Gianfranco, himself a prolific jockey in Italy. from Reuters
There was a time when I yearned to live in Los Angeles — obviously a sign I was deeply unwell — and before that, a list of smaller cities I'd idealized. from The New York Times
But what I yearned for most was what I'd had least, sweets with crunch — lots of crunch, full-on crunch — a texture that hardly turned up in Shanghainese cooking. from The New York Times
And, third, while I found I could adapt to typing on the new keyboard, I yearned for shortcut keys and a trackpad, to eliminate constant reaching for the screen. from Vox
"All I yearned for after our Rumba tonight was Linda's kiss and her words, 'I Love You,'" the Property Brothers star wrote on an Instagram of the couple cuddling up. from People
From high school age onward (I'm in my late twenties), I've failed to establish or maintain the kind of "bestie" relationship I've yearned to find since my middle school days. from Wired
You can take this extended break to refill your mental bank and expand your skill set so you can finally snag that promotion or paycheck bump you've always yearned for. from Mashable
Nancy, who told close friends she believed in an afterlife and yearned to be reunited with her husband, will be buried right beside the former president on the library's grounds. from People
His maverick presidential run energized a base of rural landowners, Christian conservatives and free-market hawks who yearned for a tougher response to years of rising violence and political graft. from Reuters
Edward just got what many of us, at some point in our dating histories, have yearned for: Replacing our S.O.'s personality with a slightly tweaked, slightly more compatible one. from Refinery 29
And despite the symptoms and discomfort she was experiencing, Brittany focused on spending her time with the family and friends she loved, and traveling to destinations she yearned to see. from CNN
Francis had said he yearned to visit the Basilica of Guadalupe, which attracts millions of pilgrims from all over Latin America, and to reflect silently in front of her image. from Reuters
LONDON — If you've ever secretly yearned to sip butterbeer in the Hog's Head Inn or rest your legs alongside some hobbits in the Prancing Pony, you're almost certainly not alone. from Mashable
It had an interesting back story, too, having been invented by twin brothers who grew up with food allergies but yearned for an easier-to-use alternative to the EpiPen. from The New York Times
She loved the thrill of forging new ground, but yearned for a stronger sense of what was expected of her as she began trying to build relationships with particular departments. from Hyperallergic
And it was an escape to that openness that some Chinese urbanites — clerks pinned to desks, scholar-officials swimming in a shark-tank imperial court — yearned for in centuries past. from The New York Times
While Rassim helped start the careers of artists like Fahrelnissa Zeid, who became known for her large-scale abstract paintings, she still yearned to be recognized for her own artwork. from The New York Times
Horiguchi has long been tipped to be the MMA star Japan has yearned for as the country hopes to regain its status as one of the key regions for the sport. from Vice
It's meant to appeal to customers who have long yearned for a smartphone that fits more easily in their hands and are willing to make a couple of compromises in exchange. from The Verge
It was no secret in the West Wing that McGahn yearned to depart later this year, but the tweet raised eyebrows about whether McGahn leaped or was pushed (The Washington Post). from The Hill
What Langston Hughes so yearned for when he asked that America be America again was the realization of an age-old people's struggle, not the vaporous fantasies of a petty tyrant. from The New York Times
"It was the speech we and millions of Cubans yearned to hear," José Daniel Ferrer, the leader of Cuba's largest dissident group, the Patriotic Union of Cuba, said in an email. from The New York Times
I found transportation really, really interesting in general because I think maybe one of the things that I yearned for is the ability to affect people's real lives, like nondigital lives. from Vox
Her farewell letter provided proof that even as many openly yearned for Franklin to reclaim her past glory, she was continuing to grow in ways that no timing system could measure. from The New York Times
Cher and Dionne Davenport were the chic California teenagers that I yearned to dress like and whose shopping habits I aspired to live out: Calvin Klein, Contempo Casual, Fred Segal, Boulmiche. from The New York Times
Still, I knew how much she'd yearned for a chance to explain herself to the son she felt she had abandoned when she'd given him up for adoption in the 1950s. from The New York Times
As the Titans moved toward a Super Bowl appearance with ascending stars like Steve McNair and Eddie George, the Predators, with a roster of castoffs and misfits, yearned for name recognition. from The New York Times
"The outcome was so strongly yearned for by Justice Scalia that I think you have to read that history as in the service of a foreordained jurisprudential result," Mr. Denniston said. from The New York Times
He said the 2013 decision skewering Mr. Sherman put him in an "impossible position," since Mr. Sherman wanted his client to avoid prison, but also yearned to defend his own reputation. from The New York Times
I yearned to be able to do the same around my family and eventually decided that it was time to stop living a lie and tell my dad I was transgender. from Vice
Diana sailed down the aisle, her strawberry-blonde waves a nimbus around her head, her intense blue eyes resting on me in a friendly way, though I yearned to be invisible. from The New York Times
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads If you've ever yearned to own a rustic villa or even a castle in the Italian countryside, now's your opportunity to make that dream become reality. from Hyperallergic
"Hello Mary Lou" by Ricky Nelson (21961) Son of television super-parents Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, young Ricky yearned to be taken more seriously than his teen idol good looks often allowed. from People
ShayKhatiri yearned to study political science, but he realized that would never be possible in his native Iran, where he says the subject tends to be limited to how Islam defines politics. from Vice
She yearned to be identical to her ideas, to display the punishing consistency of Weil, but her ideas jostled and sparked, exploding her sense of what she was, or wanted to be. from New Yorker
For years, there has been a missing link between regional farmers struggling to sell their fresh produce and customers in the metropolitan area who yearned to buy it — at an affordable price. from The New York Times
He yearned to be compared to Ronald Reagan, a former TV star who overcame a reputation for bellicosity and racial dog whistles to become the most beloved Republican president of modern times. from The New York Times
Apart from a few countries in northern and western Europe, the continent yearned for strongman leaders, had little patience for democracy, and wanted more than anything to throw out the existing order. from Axios
While they were born in Samana, and in many ways feel Dominican, they acknowledge their roots in African-American history and have yearned to connect with distant relatives in the United States. from The New York Times
Living In 11 Photos View Slide Show ' Dina Santillo-Ortiz and her husband, Ray Ortiz, had yearned for a larger home in an affordable community with good schools and a reasonable commute. from The New York Times
Here are 12 of our favorites, including one about a school in South Korea that opened its doors to grandmothers, above, who had yearned for decades to learn to read and write. from The New York Times
Blumenthal is someone who saw the country's politics fundamentally transform in the 1980s and yearned for a liberal movement and a Democratic Party that was capable of adapting and defeating the New Right. from Vox
He would of loved that, but at the same time, he would have yearned to be in a small town so he could drag some girl out of a bar so to speak. from Vice
Among the eclipse chasers this time were astronomer Maria Mitchell, who wanted to show the world that women could be scientists; and a young Thomas Edison, who yearned to prove his scientific worth. from The Verge
At its heart, Florence Foster Jenkins is a deeply empathetic portrait of a woman who seemingly had everything, but yearned for the things that money can't buy: intimacy, family, health, and true talent. from Refinery 29
Trump bombed big league, to use his favorite phrase, and he did so on his home turf, surrounded by the members of the New York elite he's always yearned to be part of. from New Republic
I wanted kicks—the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I'd yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I'd found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. from Vice
The history of American immigration is not only a story of settlers, but of sojourners, those who yearned to return home but could not, those who never felt like they belonged at all. from New Republic
By the mid-19603s, younger intellectuals and radicals had soured on the Trotsky-inspired, materially focused Marxism of the 1930s; they yearned for writing that dealt with gender, sexuality, race, and youth culture. from New Republic
This spring, in a scruffy Egyptian fishing village at the mouth of the Nile, I met restless teenagers who, drawn by images of Western glamour on Facebook, yearned to board the smugglers' boats. from The New York Times
But ever since the Boston Marathon bombing that put a knife in my city's heart, I've yearned to be part of more community moments, more comings-together that let us celebrate being human. from Vice
Victoria sings of the "wild ones" who "tame the fear" within her as she longs to "get let into" the rooms inhabited by the humans she once knew and yearned for love from. from Vox
I was honored to serve alongside all of them, and humbled by their sense of duty, by their willingness to risk life and limb for a country they yearned to call their own. from The New York Times
In his poem "Dream Variations," published in 1926, Langston Hughes yearned for a time when the African-American worker, exhausted by the daily grind of hard labor and discrimination, might be truly free. from The New York Times
It was calling brightly out across 220 million miles of space, a gulf humans have yearned to cross for as long as they have known that the lights in the sky are places. from The New York Times
Pouille, who had yearned to take a break from the tour but decided to finish the season so he could play in the Davis Cup final, was on his own for eight days. from The New York Times
I was able to hold it together at this dose, but I yearned to be outside in the sun or doing literally anything else than discussing how to increase efficiency in a call center. from Vice
There were moments when I yearned to help the person on the other end by offering advice, and others when the confessors beckoned back, wishing they could hear breathing or other signs of life. from Hyperallergic
It was a world away from the Jenny who desperately yearned to copy the style of Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), the person whose throne Jenny coveted for the entirety of the show's freshman season. from Refinery 29
Instead, Cruz reminds them, the outsider named Reagan inspired millions of disenchanted voters who yearned for a return to American primacy, following the failed policies of a Democratic president both at home and abroad. from The New York Times
As it happens, I just had a conversation here with an Afghan woman who was telling me how the Afghan people welcomed the dreadful Taliban to power because they yearned for peace and security. from CNN
A deeper point is that in America, the commonality or "public space" yearned for by Lord Sacks is provided not by generous acts of solidarity between communities but by the flag and the constitution. from Economist
When 11-year-old Marley Dias got tired of reading books about "dogs and white boys" and yearned to read stories about awesome Black girls like herself, she decided to do something about it. from Refinery 29
This was the pitcher the Mets yearned to see, seven innings of angry fastballs and wicked off-speed stuff in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Citi Field on Monday. from The New York Times
For years, the woman who was raped in Prospect Park in 1994 and then vilified as a fabricator by a Daily News columnist, has yearned for an apology from the newspaper and the police. from The New York Times
She describes herself as a "teacher," the job she yearned for as a young girl when she lined up her "dollies" for instruction — "I had a reputation for being tough but fair," she quips. from Politico
Understanding better than anyone why voters yearned for a candidate whom they could trust and someone who did not seem deeply enmeshed in Washington politics, he won the nomination and he won the presidency. from CNN
" It was in the absence of minorities from pop lore, she goes on, "that seeds were planted in the imaginations of countless black kids who yearned to see themselves in warp-speed spaceship too. from The New York Times
She recently launched a podcast, Listen Hunnay (produced by Studio71), on which she interviews experts on everything from mental health to divorce, hoping to give fans the safe space for which she always yearned. from People
In May 2000, still listed as an active astronaut though he would make no more spaceflights, Mr. Young said he yearned for NASA to fly to the moon again and envisioned missions beyond it. from The New York Times
It was music for a generation of men who wanted to climb the corporate ladder and not get led astray by a deceitful woman, but who also yearned to find home in an available body. from New Republic
Her products cater to wide range of skin tones in a way that many consumers have yearned for, which will likely help her company the same way it has boosted rival cosmetics brand Rihanna's Fenty. from CNBC
The inclusiveness of that scene meant that a lot of the hardcore fans who grew up and refined their musical taste in abandoned warehouses and disused factories yearned for that esoteric feeling when going clubbing. from Vice
What's also abundantly clear is that Wiseau, sans talent or encouragement, still yearned so desperately to be an actor that when Hollywood wouldn't take his calls, he spent a fortune to make his own movie. from Vox
They were trading away access to world-class medical care in New York City for the unpredictable conditions on an island they yearned for even though it was ill-equipped to tend to their needs. from The New York Times
He yearned to be where he didn't have to care about what others thought about him: Sweaty clubs featuring longhaired metalcore musicians with tattoos, piercings and no-nonsense glares proved to be just the ticket. from The New York Times
In 2016, Donald Trump wielded that same sense of change as a threat; he was the revanchist voice of those who yearned to make America the way it was before, to make it great again. from Vox
Yet Ms. Merkel never became the ambassador for the East that people yearned for: Living standards in the region still lag those in the West, even after what is perceived as a traumatic economic takeover. from The New York Times
" We shared a moment and he said, "Your mother has always been so close to your sister and I have always been so close to you because your mother and I each yearned for 'love. from The New York Times
When Veep creator Armando Iannucci announced he'd be taking on the sci-fi genre, fans of his sharp satire yearned for Selina Meyer in space — a witty workplace comedy with punchy quips and intergalactic stakes. from Mashable
He yearned to be a love poet on the order of Catullus (about whom Dunn has written a very good book), but had neither the talent nor the courage to reveal his eroticism so nakedly. from The New York Times
Its origins date back to the civil war, when the scions of northern families who were either too young (or too privileged) to participate in the war yearned for the valor of the war hero. from The Hill
Berkman weaves the players' back stories into a larger examination of culture and identity, and of women who yearned for respect as elite athletes when their sports system made it challenging for women to succeed. from The New York Times
SIZAYA, Russia (Reuters) - When Alexei Dubovets and his wife Natalia Kurochkina yearned for a change from Russian city life, they moved to a village in Siberia and began to dabble in the art of cheesemaking. from Reuters
In 1988, long after Peary's death, The New York Times ran a correction to its original 1909 story admitting that The Times and the society ''may have failed to scrutinize adequately what they yearned to believe. from The New York Times
My favorite afternoon snack as a child in San Diego was a still-steaming flour tortilla purchased at the taqueria down the street from my school, and I've yearned for them ever since I moved away. from The New York Times
Frank Bruni For seven years — seven years — Republicans thundered about the evils of Obamacare, yearned for the day when they could bury it and vowed to do precisely that once the ball was in their hands. from The New York Times
I memorized scenes from romantic comedies and recited the dialogue in the dark in my bedroom, door locked, tears streaming down my face as I tried to summon emotions I yearned to experience in real life. from The New York Times
Your mom and I are not as quick as we used to be, and it is easy to lose the plot as our minds wander to thoughts of the past and death and yearned-for naps. from The New York Times
When he'd started picking apart the console's software a decade earlier, it had seemed like harmless fun—a way for him and his friends to match wits with the corporate engineers whose ranks they yearned to join. from Wired
They seemed like a barrage, a way to chide me for leaving and the paper and pen equivalent of hands that held me too tightly, trying to pull me away from a life I yearned to create. from The New York Times
His first meal was stewed pork knuckle over rice, a dish he had yearned to eat while stranded in the cave, where the boys had no food for days and survived only on water dripping from stalactites. from Reuters
But she yearned to make skating more accessible and figured that selling high quality, lifestyle oriented skates designed to perform recreationally—rather than the drab tan and black, rentable indoor models—was the right place to start. from Vice
It's sabotage, and besides the obvious question — why didn't Empirical force a non-compete on Charles when he left — it's a terrible thing to do to your new girlfriend, who's yearned to be with you for years. from Vox
When he went before the board, he was disappointed that Barton never provided him with an opportunity to talk about the bed-wetting; the thing he feared talking about was also the thing he yearned to discuss. from The New York Times
But someday, they might be key pieces to providing the relief that many rail travelers have long yearned for — the tubes would help link a new tunnel under the Hudson River to tracks leading to Pennsylvania Station. from The New York Times
Later, as they returned with flushed faces and tales of the raucous chanting, the trumpets, and the frenzied hostilities between 20103,000 fans always threatening to boil over into something more, she yearned more than ever to join them. from Vice
I was a melancholy (but highly entertaining) teenager, and Tolkien's novel gave me the thing I had yearned for: a world beyond the haunted house I lived in with my bridge-playing parents and our three deranged Dalmatians. from The New York Times
Her decision, widely discussed in German media, was interpreted as a symbolic gesture: a belated official rejection of an artist who yearned for Adolf Hitler's approval and thought that banishing Jews from the country was a good idea. from The New York Times
Joe Biden surged to Super Tuesday wins by assembling the primary coalition he and other Democrats have yearned to build for a year, fusing domination among black voters with strong support from whites that crossed over class lines. from Politico
North Korea turned over the remains of 4,167 Americans in 1954, and others a few at a time since then, but has never come close to allowing the full accounting that the families of the missing yearned for. from The New York Times
While leafing through her mother's and grandmother's photo albums, she yearned for experiences her generation never had: walking through the streets of Tehran in colorful skirts instead of compulsory veils; strolling along the Caspian Sea coast in bikinis. from The New York Times
But Obama also portrayed Trump as no ordinary Republican, attacking the GOP nominee's convention in Cleveland as a festival of anger, resentment and pessimism that trafficked in hate, talked down America and yearned to withdraw from the world. from Politico
Frank Oteng, who said he had taken a statistics class with Mr. Artan last spring at Columbus State Community College, recalled him as a diligent student who sought help on coursework and yearned to transfer to Ohio State. from The New York Times
So the launch of Durov's Telegram app, which offers users end-to-end encryption, making it incredibly difficult for outsiders to hack in, was met with great fanfare by many Iranians who yearned for the ability to communicate freely. from Mashable
By the end of the afternoon of driving the Grand Sport on the track, as an afternoon lighting storm rolled into the skies above northern Georgia, my neck ached and yet I still yearned for a few more laps. from Mashable
But CEO Bobby Kotick, who has long yearned to expand the cultural footprint of videogames, insisted he was serious, and he backed it up by hiring Nick van Dyk, a Disney veteran, to serve as his founding studio chief. from Wired
And that's what Mattis did during his visit to the troops, who no doubt yearned to hear that their presence made sense but could be told that only if Mattis lied for the president and to all of us. from The New York Times
The territory's dispirited chief executive, Carrie Lam, is insisting that she is not ceding to protesters' demands that she step down, even though an audio recording emerged of her telling local businesspeople last week that she yearned to resign. from The New York Times
When he yearned to confer with his father about Interlude, he went looking for passages about the company; when his son was born, last year, he searched for what his father had written when his first child was born. from New Yorker
From her childhood, in Chapel Hill, to her time in postwar Europe and her later years in San Francisco, Adams strove for independence and creative fulfillment, but also yearned for affection and romance, a tension that informs her fiction. from New Yorker
MAHMOOD ELAHI, OTTAWA To the Editor: The American missiles that fell on Syria may have satisfied those who yearned to avenge Bashar al-Assad's brutal gas attacks, but they won't bring back the children mercilessly killed in those attacks. from The New York Times
I yearned for us to be chosen to be a Nielsen family, and fantasized about keeping a TV diary and having my viewing habits influence ratings, but my parents said we'd never be asked to do such a thing. from The New York Times
I yearned for expanded universes, the Stephen Kings and the Sandmans and Final Fantasys and all the rest, because the very idea that all these unique and powerful stories could be connected spoke to a fragmented, made-up adolescent. from Vice
Many of the older women prominent in social reform in the era remained single, often in discreet same-sex relationships, but Eastman yearned for something different—an equal professional and romantic partnership with a man exactly like her brother. from New Republic
While he could have had earthly power – his followers yearned for him to become king – he instead claimed only spiritual power, believing that the best way to change the world was by changing the human heart, one person at a time. from Fox News
And finally, of course, there's the politician most like Glass in her willingness to crawl through glass, flip her positions and persona, and even bear up under a mauling by a merciless, manic bear to reach that goal most yearned for. from The New York Times
Having felled the brash Mr. Trump, who unceasingly predicted victory and dominated the race up until the first voting, Mr. Cruz can credibly portray himself, to conservatives who have yearned to unite behind a strong champion, as a giant-killer. from The New York Times
Just think of the millions from all over the globe who yearned to be on that island, that city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all who insisted on being where all the things were happening. from Fox News
The Detroit native, who was raised by her grandmother and lives in Atlanta, had yearned for a family of her own but always seemed to come up short in the love department, with a series of failed relationships behind her. from People
In a devastating essay written for The New York Times, Nyad broke her silence and detailed how her swim coach, the man she called "the father I always yearned for," sexually assaulted her in 1964, when she was just 14. from Refinery 29
I yearned for what I saw in late 90s movies like American Pie and Cruel Intentions, where white people lived in "modern" cities, went to endless proms, and threw wild house parties that never got shut down by the cops. from Vice
Maloof teamed up with Charlie Siskel to make Finding Vivian Maier, which pulls back the curtain on Maier's life and reveals a complicated, brilliant woman who defies easy categorization and seems to have yearned for an existence far beyond her own. from Vox
Ever since the country won the world cup in 1998, with a multi-racial team made up of black, blanc, beur ("black, white and Arab"), the French have yearned to recapture that moment of post-colonial conviviality and national euphoria. from Economist
The company's success can be attributed to the fact that the Becks realized that both urban and suburban consumers yearned for a neighborhood alternative to the department store and mall beauty-buying experience, when they founded the business in 1999. from CNBC
That narrative brings an intriguing array of characters through Molly's orbit, as well as an account of how it all worked, from procuring big-money "fish" to participate to the renowned gambler (Michael Cera) with whom everyone yearned to compete. from CNN
Woods told a friend last year that he yearned for the younger players to feel the heat of playing the back nine of a tournament on Sunday with him holding the lead, a scenario that played out at the Tour Championship. from The New York Times
Donald Trump barely won the White House, under circumstances — a tainted opponent, three million fewer votes than she received, James Comey's moral vanity and Russia's amoral exertions — that raise serious questions about how many Americans yearned to see him there. from The New York Times
Over time, however, it became clear that readers yearned for such practical advice, and increasingly I saw a mismatch: readers who wanted to help and didn't know how, and heroic individuals and organizations who desperately needed resources but were unknown. from The New York Times
The first was the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who as a schoolboy in Seattle yearned to become an astronaut but, being nearsighted, realized that was impossible so spent his time coding in the school's computer room with his friend Bill Gates. from The New York Times
All of us at one point have yearned to have the kind of strength and bravery that encapsulated King Arthur, which is only expected to increase tenfold once you see the new movie about his life, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. from Mashable
Reed seeks to understand McLemore, not because we need to understand him—he's not a public figure to be unmasked—but because to try to understand McLemore is to grant him a kind of compassion he so clearly yearned for in the world. from Vice
"I always yearned to see Punjab - my motherland - and now I am so proud to be here after almost 40 years," she told TV reporters at the time, her voice choking with emotion as she steadied herself with nips from a water bottle. from Reuters
"Let me tell you where people are dying is in Africa," he told an audience after he returned, launching into a story about a young village girl who yearned to be able to read by electric light instead of a smoky fire. from The New York Times
DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani pledged on Saturday to open Iran to the world and deliver freedoms its people have yearned for, throwing down a defiant challenge to his hardline opponents after securing a decisive re-election for a second term. from Reuters
For all the popularity of Mr. Putin's battle against what he belittled as the chaotic freedoms of the 1990s, I met many people in Russia who yearned for the time when they would take their place at the table of "normal," stable democracies. from The New York Times
Donald J. Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on July 21 with an unusually vehement appeal to Americans who felt their country was spiraling out of control and yearned for a leader who would take aggressive, even extreme, action to protect them. from The New York Times
Now it's why certain organs and apostles of liberal Catholicism are running interference for McCarrick's protectors — because Francis is their pope, the liberalizer they yearned for all through the John Paul and Benedict years, and all's fair in the Catholic civil war. from The New York Times
As a boy in Granada, he yearned to wear the colorful costumes of his female idols, dancers like Eva Yerbabuena, Matilde Coral and Blanca del Rey and glamorous movie stars of the 1950s and '60s who sang and danced, like Lola Flores and Carmen Sevilla. from The New York Times
Like thousands of poor families in disadvantaged neighborhoods all over the country, the Gateses and the Agees yearned for William and Arthur to make it as professional basketball players, in no small part to catapult them out of the poverty that permeates the West Side. from The New York Times
It's the must-have feature for the dim days of 2019, its spread eliciting a collective gasp of ecstasy at every new iteration as if black text on a white background is some deep injustice from which we've long yearned for a sweet release. from Gizmodo
In her new book, Maangchi writes about how her videos have helped everyone from Korean adoptees who yearned to learn more about their cultures to families who have lost mothers and were brought together by food to non-Koreans who started businesses and restaurants with her recipes. from The Verge
Her friends, who have always treated her the way she's yearned to be treated, suddenly aren't good enough; why hang with them when she can now gain entry to the secret clubs in the back of shady dim sum restaurants, courtesy of her shiny beauty industry friends? from Refinery 29
Unlike my few youthful romances, which had mostly depleted me, my female friendships were replenishing, and their salubrious effect expanded into other layers of my life: They made things I yearned for, like better work, fairer remuneration, increased self-assurance and even just fun, seem more attainable. from The New York Times
Historian Lillian Faderman, author of the comprehensive gay liberation overview The Gay Revolution, told me that some supporters genuinely yearned for a sort of gay nation within a nation; others saw it as a press ploy to demonstrate that the gay and lesbian movement had teeth. from Vice
And it was an image that generations of Colombians had yearned to see on their soil: A sitting president shaking the hands of the very rebel leader whom government forces had once hunted in the mountains, as the two sides pledged a future of peaceful politics. from The New York Times
He bemoaned the partisanship nature of today versus the Nixon era, how the country is divided into echo chambers and by social media, and yearned for the days when Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley gave the country a "set of common facts" from which people made judgments. from CNN
Fortunately the song was released, but Gaye reportedly felt disillusioned by its success and yearned for more creative control, something that would come to a head in the form of an ultimatum from Gaye to Gordy two years later: release "What's Going On" or he'd walk. from Vice
If you've yearned to see Halle Berry work with a trained 'assassin dog' that leaps from her back to scamper up a wall to a higher mezzanine area and take down a looming opponent, this is your moment (and yes, that very good doggo actually did that stunt). from Mashable
There's another, potentially harder-to-solve element: Clinton's brand of policy prescriptions, toughness and problem-solving could be out of sync with more deeply dissatisfied liberals who have yearned for Sanders' fire-and-brimstone condemnations of the nation's power structures -- and there's little Clinton can do to change it. from CNN
In the 1990s, the U.S. president—facing the relentless barrage of the press at home, as a result of the Lewinsky scandal and heightened partisan bickering—had become a symbol of the new age to come, when Kosovar Albanians would finally get the rights they had long yearned for. from New Republic
Sure, being an ersatz adult meant that I could do all the things my teenage id yearned to do — drink alcohol, take drugs and (try to) have sex — but it didn't mean that I could forget the ordeals my father put me through on the highways of Chicagoland. from The New York Times
He tried to rise to it, to become the dashing, devastating, man of the world — Vronsky from "Anna Karenina" — that she yearned for him to become as she suffered odd jobs, from palm reader to kennel keeper, and schlepped him across Europe to France to fulfill his destiny. from The New York Times
Many initially saw the Communist Party as China's salvation, watched as it turned into a dictatorial force under Mao's nearly 30 years at the top, and then yearned that the reform era would finally bring changes — only to see these hopes dashed by the party's inability to renounce authoritarianism. from The New York Times
We have very different identities and life experiences, but a certain commonality brings us closer together: The obstacle between me and the sexual and romantic affection I yearned for was a rejection of myself; in hiding their desires, the men who could not value me were rejecting parts of themselves, too. from Vice
Chronicling his upbringing, writings, his place in leftist Chilean politics, and his artistic collaborations with Francisco Casa as part of the politically focused artist collective, Las Yeguas Del Apocalipsis (The Mares of the Apocalypse), Lemebel offers a portrait of an artist who always yearned for more from life and his country. from Hyperallergic
" I did not want to try heroin or sleep with men who shit the bed, but I still yearned to be cool enough to not "choose life," the Irvine Welsh equivalent of being what The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield considers a "phony" or what your kid sister calls "basic. from Refinery 29
She wears pink every day for 18 months to tell the world about it on social media; she records herself folding every item of clothing installed downstairs; she recites a thousand names that the baby girl she yearned for could have had; she embroiders dozens of pink squares with those names. from Hyperallergic
But the electoral result has transformed him into a masterful politician who boldly gambled and won his bet that the British people were fed up with "dithering politicians" and yearned to "get Brexit done," end Parliamentary chaos and see their country pointed in clearer and better directions under strong leadership. from The Hill
Like his protagonist, he relished being naughty but yearned to be rich; those desires were hardly irreconcilable in a city that simultaneously embraced the materialism of the Reagan era and rejected its moralism, where stretch limos deposited partygoers in unseemly neighborhoods and yuppies ran rampant while "Die Yuppie Scum" graffiti spread. from The New York Times
In what became a cliche of the 2016 election, Trump's voters often said that the reason they flocked to the reality star and real estate magnate is that he was prepared to say things, free of the constraints of political correctness, that they had long yearned for a presidential candidate to say. from CNN
BACOLET BAY, Trinidad and Tobago — Jay Ferreira, who was born in Trinidad and had grown to love its sister island, Tobago, had yearned to build something groundbreakingly modern there, eventually choosing Bacolet Bay, a stomping ground of Hollywood celebrities in the mid-20th century, as the site for his eco-friendly property. from The New York Times
In fact, she tells Traister that she "beat both" Sanders and Trump (likely referring to the popular vote) with this tactic: There are plenty of people who yearned for Clinton to get mad; during the campaign, an imagined litany of Clinton's fury entitled "Let Me Remind You Fuckers Who I Am" went viral. from Vox
A Word With As a 7-year-old in North Carolina, Amy Sedaris yearned to host her own hospitality show, inspired by local women like Peggy Mann and Betty Elliot who, on sets resembling their homes, discussed the finer points of bat sleeves and collar construction or the lineage of Mayflower descendants. from The New York Times
" More enticing, Madonna enlisted Mirwais, producer of the excellent Ray of Light follow-up and sister album Music, to work behind the boards; she mentioned in an Instagram comment that she yearned for the days "when I made records with other artists from beginning to end and I was allowed to be a visionary. from Buzzfeed News
Like all text-adventure games, The Lurking Horror relied solely on prose and the player's imagination, but its smarts and sense of atmosphere wormed their way into my brain — so much so that when I later went to college, I yearned to discover underground steam tunnels that were home to evildoing at my own university. from The Verge
But Kessler, for his part, seems to view his mission as more than drumming up clicks; he wants to police the bounds of American debate, in favor of the sort of Chicago School economic consensus and Clinton-era moderation yearned for by so many of his fellow members of the Council on Foreign Relations. from New Republic
At Compiègne today visitors can view silver rings from the trenches bearing initials (LV, MJ, SH or G) or four-leaf clovers; pipes with marks worn where teeth once clenched; a tube of insect-bite cream; letter-openers fashioned from shell casings, the names of yearned-for correspondents etched into their blades ("Marguerite", "Mlle Rose-Marie"). from Economist
More than he wanted to kiss a woman, or hear a divine concerto performed by angels, or paint a perfect painting, he yearned to pass that exam and the interview that followed it and live out his remaining brief life on a grassy hill, under blue skies, among normal people and not only rapidly aging children and their instructors. from Wired
Cornuelles, a variety of water chestnut that grow wild on the ponds in the Puisaye, were what Colette yearned to eat when she returned to Burgundy, but since this lowly food wasn't on the menu at L'Hostellerie, the chef Raymond Olivier of Le Grand Vefour in Paris intervened on Colette's behalf to ask Dumaine to prepare them for her. from The New York Times
There are too many make-weights here, paintings which are not quite good enough, paintings that we probably want to see because they are undeniably by Paul Gauguin, but not what we might have yearned to come to see and even expected to see, given the promise of such a show as this one, and the fanfare that has surrounded its opening. Why? from Hyperallergic
Yearning to get even closer to the genesis of their ideas, their internal, biological sources of inspiration, musicians have yearned for this technology for years; one needs only to watch and listen to the improvisational performance of jazz musicians to understand on-the-spot melodic inventions as, perhaps, the best example of what boundless, pure creativity looks and sounds like. from Vice
" Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard's "Photographic Album for the Artist and the Amateur" (1851) and John Thomson's "Street Life in London" (1877) put images of chimney sweeps and millers in front of well-off viewers who could regard them with curiosity and concern: "Unlettered, uncomplicated people were felt to preserve an otherwise lost capacity for sincerity for which modern artists and intellectuals yearned. from New Yorker
I yearned for the smell of my dad&aposs baklava filling up the kitchen, the taste of my mom&aposs pies alongside her famous Greek salad (it&aposs not authentic if there&aposs lettuce in it!), and the traditional kourabiedes my younger sister had learned how to bake, the cookies&apos powdery sugar staining our fingertips as we decorated the Christmas tree. from Business Insider
After all, Saturday was a day Vianney, 24, and her siblings — ages 13, 13, and 22 — had long yearned for: Her mother was finally coming home on an H1B visa after being deported in August 2017, swept up by immigration officials, despite the fact that she had no criminal record, held a high-paying job as a cancer nurse, and owned her own home. from Buzzfeed News
It was an idea when Moses led the Jews toward it through the desert, and then it was real for a while until Nebuchadnezzar razed it in the sixth century B.C., after which it became an idea again during 19873 years of exile, when Jews yearned for it, wrapped their souls around it and spilled verses of poetry about it while they prospered in Babylon. from The New York Times
Now that I was even farther away from home, I yearned for the familiar — the recipes my grandmother used to type out on index cards with her typewriter, the samurai TV shows that my grandfather used to watch, the language we rarely exchanged (but pretended like we knew, because we're too proud to admit that we can't fluently speak Japanese because it wasn't passed down to us #AmericanAssimilation). from Refinery 29
Cooper has been working since his father's death, when he became a child model, not because he yearned to be in front of a camera, but because modeling was a profession that offered a substantial paycheck to underage laborers.) Mr. Cooper described a trip to Studio 54 when Ms. Vanderbilt was again dating Sidney Lumet (who had also been — stay with me here — husband No. 3) after Mr. Cooper's father's death. from The New York Times
But now, I must share: James Veloria is a truly special store, a joyfully assembled archive that has clothes you yearned for before Y21990K, clothes for the new summer you, clothes you'll actually hang up at the end of the night, clothes that summon memories of when you could see runway collections only in a magazine you spread open on your bedroom carpet, clothes you hoped the future you would clothe you in. from The New York Times
Silver honors the ambiguities implicit in the choice Pavla makes, implications that linger even after the book comes to a satisfying close, when Danilo, too, is given a choice of what to do with his only real possession, his own central preoccupation: the whole of Pavla's story, the tale of the "little nothing" he has loved and yearned after all his life, the eternal moment of a story told, by whose telling a lifetime of transformation might come achingly undone. from The New York Times
When my own children were in day care, all those years ago, I never yearned after curriculum — I just assumed that my children would read on schedule, and read well, that they would learn math just fine when the time came (by the way, the Shanghai day care center told us proudly that it follows the Singapore math curriculum, which produces much better results than our methods in the United States.) But watching the process of deliberately creating bilingual 5- and 6-year-olds, taking full advantage of that remarkable developmental window that helps children learn fluent language in those early years, I felt downright wistful. from The New York Times
At 16, while earning fabulous sums as a recitalist, he later wrote that he felt sick of being "a performing dog" and yearned to join the priesthood; at 20 he gaily dived into salons in Paris while immersing himself in proto-Marxist philosophy; when he was 35 and at the height of his fame, he suddenly abandoned his virtuoso career to devote himself to conducting, teaching and playing in concerts for charity; at 54 he took orders to become an abbé, but that in no way inhibited his brilliantly successful talent for self-publicity, or for bewitching the female pupils who continued to pursue him almost to the end of his days. from Economist
Afternoon alive angel AliBelted by birdsBlue boat of your bodyBreaks in breathBroken brother come in dark disappear down Don't existThe empty editor echoesEternal fast find me forgottenThe garden glass hasn't heard yetTo hollow its horizon higherInside Kazim Kazim knewLearned lightListenedLived lostLimited himself to matterHis memoir of morningMother mountain mouthNever night this orifice openOrating to ovationPlucked pot pieces of plotHis prayer pulled quickly from rainRecitation of rain rejoining the rocksRocks rushed to remembering the secret seriesOf sun wonders, silence on the shoreSilence someone soundsSpeaking through stoneThe sunset stringing us alongStudents of the task that of thirstA thousand trees to teach this trick to usTo understand the voice the verse the version of vanishingThat waits and wants and wondersWheel window wanderYesterday you yearned in the yewsYou know then who you wereWho you gathered yourself to beZamindar of zinniasZephyr through the zoo Kazim Ali's new book of poems INQUISITION will be published in early 2018. from New Republic