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Other, more obvious ones, included yearnings for freedom and democracy.
Tripping in the train of anxieties come profound, insatiable yearnings.
Neither of these candidates will fulfill the yearnings of Leonard's declaration.
We all have different libidos, different yearnings, a different erotic imagination.
In Roswell, some of humanity's foundational yearnings hide in plain sight.
It's a tribute to sloth, slacking, impossible yearnings — the cardinal virtues.
Carlo Rovelli's acclaimed and lofty exploration of time will satisfy similar yearnings.
Schlesinger's bluster was a thinly concealed disguise for his own idealistic yearnings.
It won't save your soul or fulfill the yearnings of your heart.
Tinpot tyrants have a way of seducing people out of their democratic yearnings.
We roll our eyes at her juvenile yearnings for Prince Charmings and castles.
Inside millions of minds are fears and yearnings that we still don't understand.
This is all a clever mirror for Offred's yearnings to reconnect with Hannah.
Then, there's "Stromboli" (1950), where Ingrid Bergman pursued her yearnings beneath volcanic hills.
Our bodies drive these changes, as do our yearnings for status and belonging.
Zarina's collages evoke the intense yearnings of a migrant in search of a home.
Zarina's work evokes the intense yearnings of a migrant in search of a home.
But Eastwood wasn't feeling any Kincaid-like yearnings to quote Yeats or pick wildflowers.
Various musicians in the 1960s tapped into yearnings for black assertiveness, autonomy and solidarity.
Alexander Aciman explores the muddled allegiances and yearnings of his French and Jewish heritage.
First, puritanical attitudes to sex (and the variety of human yearnings) are mostly in retreat.
Then, and today, the vast diversity of plants has made these botanical yearnings nearly insatiable.
Allowing oneself the chance to transform and awaken old yearnings will help soften the Plutonian energy.
They're both pleased to see one another, of course; some yearnings of the heart never die.
They have yearnings not unlike those of the kids on the other side of the tracks.
One question is how one responds to such feelings or yearnings outside of traditional religious practice.
Until recently, I mistakenly associated deep yearnings and ambitions with the energy and idealism of youth.
Dangerous because those yearnings trigger multiple alarms in one of the least stable regions on earth.
Until recently, I generally associated deep yearnings and high ambitions with the energy and idealism of youth.
What if it fulfills some of our deepest yearnings that have nothing to do with, say, sex?
But Ernesto and Raúl are adolescent boys, with adolescent-boy yearnings and adolescent-boy senses of judgment.
Margaret Talbot reports on Mitski, the indie-pop musician who writes achingly intense songs about private yearnings.
All expose their intimate problems to anyone willing to listen — their dirty laundry, their most trivial of yearnings.
Hiaasen's trick is to cool all these steamy dreads and yearnings with refreshing breezes of sharp, clear language.
There are stoned discussions of nirvana and muddled yearnings for peace and wholeness, reminiscent of Denis Johnson stories.
And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings.
For an aspiring urban community, this style of worship allows people to bring their yearnings and celebrate their achievements.
Jack, who has an antiques dealer's eye and Leo's larcenous streak, doesn't see a fireman's yearnings in that thing.
The man who has helped people find answers to their deepest spiritual yearnings now needs help just to get around.
Some journalists have suggested that Trump's presidential yearnings began burning brighter in that moment of public humiliation back in 2011.
On the spiritual side they hunger for a vehement crusade that will fulfill their moral yearnings and produce social justice.
That these artists are considered outsiders is irrelevant to our ability to relate to some of their most intimate yearnings.
A plot thread about Paul's suppressed romantic yearnings is the only part of this story that feels a bit false.
They also are perched on that precarious cliff wall between adolescence and manhood, and that brings other questions and yearnings.
Her voice penetrating and bright, with a slight metallic tinge that lends it intensity, she brings out Tamara's confusions and yearnings compellingly.
In the series, you see their playful courtship, their declarations of love, their private yearnings and their frequent and fiery public arguments.
Children and young adults growing up in the overlap between broadcast media and digital media brought with them a specific set of yearnings.
One of those yearnings – the desire for the person on the other side of the glass to see you – defines our interfaces today.
Angela from My So-Called Life was a pretty solid template: I vaguely recognized some of my own yearnings and resentments in her.
Americalovesnoodles. And no restaurant better feeds our national pasta yearnings like Olive Garden—a spaghetti-and-breadstick sanctuary for all our carb worship.
Cleansed of its abstract mathematics, the paper is an ode to memory, loss and the oldest of human yearnings, the desire for transcendence.
Many Democrats, by rushing toward a single-payer Medicare for All plan, are being pulled along by ideological yearnings instead of practical realities.
That Trump's daily provocations have left us inured and jaded to such authoritarian yearnings is, itself, an injury he has inflicted upon us.
Together, these books make a persuasive case for regarding Ikonomou as Greece's most original and perceptive chronicler of his country's fears and yearnings.
To them I owe a great debt for crystallizing my vague yearnings to write and for showing me the long dream was attainable.
As a result, I understand, and empathize with, some of the broader yearnings of traditionalism, even as I reject their right-wing political manifestations.
"When people are growing up they're generally looking for something in the culture that reflects their subconscious yearnings," Grayson Perry wrote in The Guardian.
His proposal to President Barack Obama to establish a "New Model of Major Country Relations" could only please Han-majority Chinese with imperial yearnings.
Much like the other things on his new album, it's a gorgeously stripped-down ode to a past lover that's unabashed in its yearnings.
Songwriting is Daye's superpower, channeling his deepest anxieties and yearnings over vibrant horns and booming basslines that evoke Chaka Khan and Rufus and The Stylistics.
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.
In many lands there is a sense of flux, from the secessionist yearnings of Catalonia in Spain to Britain's planned departure from the European Union.
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.
The movie's looming menace offers a glimpse at the essential tragic conflict between sex and society, between a woman's public life and her intimate yearnings.
And the tension between the Jewish laws that guide their daily lives and the yearnings and whims of the characters makes for emotionally powerful television.
Some are motivated not just by their own parental yearnings but also by politics: Embryo donation is a pet cause of the pro-life movement.
The title of Forrest Gander's latest book of poems, " Be With " (New Directions), is a blurted command welling up from yearnings not quite expressible in language.
As is common in an increasingly repressive China, Mr. Liu was punished not for a crime, but for giving voice to the most basic human yearnings.
We all trust a site that started as a hot-or-not rating site for horny college students to be totally sensitive with our romantic yearnings, right?
Having survived nationalist yearnings from Scotland and Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom could now succumb to the nationalism of its largest and most powerful group: the English.
And I'm going to do everything I can to talk to the heart that I see in my neighborhood, the yearnings that I see in my community.
Former Vice President Joe Biden raised hackles on the left over the past week with his own public yearnings for a return to the manners of years past.
At such a moment, Willkie ought to be an object of at least nostalgia, even if he does not give rise to yearnings for what might have been.
Popular culture tells them that they will endure, at most, romantic yearnings for doltish boys, or the double-binding shame of being called either undesirable or a slut.
Many fans come to it in middle school, titillated by the barely contained sexual yearnings of Bella Swan and the innate chasteness of Morman author Stephanie Meyer's writing.
These films were precursors to the brilliance of Issa Rae's Insecure and Donald Glover's Atlanta, where the jokes, betrayals, and yearnings are all uniquely situated within the black experience.
Our narrative engines may not be up to the task of making sense of our yearnings, and we may find ourselves unyoked from them, and leashed to someone else's.
He was an artsy skater kid, attending the San Francisco Art Institute before dropping out to make music that appealed to the cosmic/bucolic yearnings of the art school counterculture.
She knows better than anyone the danger of getting outflanked by a more liberal candidate who can inspire young Democrats and speak to the yearnings of the party's progressive base.
The yearnings of the heart don't come with time stamps, and long-game acts of deceit and betrayal don't lend themselves to simple when-and-where entries on police reports.
"Shaker Loops" is written for a small string ensemble, but its febrile yearnings and rhythmic thrusts point to the rapprochement that Adams would soon make with the Romantic orchestral tradition.
Even the town's stodgy mayor is going to succumb to the savage yearnings unleashed by Conrad's driving guitar licks and gyrating pelvis, which at Goodspeed belong to the formidable Rhett Guter.
A Good Appetite With easy-to-peel satsumas, seedless clementines and scarlet blood oranges all available to satisfy citrus yearnings, it can be hard to remember to give grapefruits their due.
Whatever Washington says, they cannot keep the people down, and tonight is a testament to the people's commitments to their yearnings to get back to our core commitments, free market principles.
While its clerical leaders often portray themselves as modest and pious representatives of God, beneath their façade lie yearnings for power and wealth — much like those of dictators throughout the world.
Besides the extreme historical drama in the arc of his development, there is personal pathos in the sense that his commitment to rational abstraction deflected—or sacrificed, even—his softer yearnings.
The project of The Handmaid's Tale is to make us see the seeds of Gilead in our own society — our own yearnings for Gilead — and to recognize them for what they are.
It was almost as if the characters were created to prepare me for a life of subordination to the narratives and life stories and yearnings and desires and humanities of white women.
Music is what captures the skyward-reaching, ineffable yearnings of the characters — the triple-timing bisexual lug, the man with the diaper fetish, the housewife who wants to be a pole dancer.
Religion irritates the rational brain because it trades in magical thinking and no proof, but it nourishes the emotional brain because it calms fears, answers to yearnings and strengthens feelings of loyalty.
But the "leave" camp has a real shot at winning the vote on the strength of electoral yearnings for tighter limits on immigration — something Britain can't impose while part of the European Union.
When I worried that the mall food court smoothie was somehow maybe both too niche and too broad of a topic to reflect upon, the highly specific nostalgic yearnings of internet culture pulled through.
In "80," the story published in Heavy Feather Review, he described an old man with wispy white hair, a pot belly and yearnings for a woman, looking at the day ahead at 3 a.m.
"The novel is autobiographical insofar as I was born and bred in the west of Ireland, educated at a convent, and was full of romantic yearnings, coupled with a sense of outrage," she said.
Like Clarice Lispector's novel that audaciously takes an unexpected turn — the character struggling to reconcile her metaphysical yearnings with her physical presence — Rattlesnake Bells in the Desert does not default to a simplified, monolinear narrative.
Beneath Fonda's fame, fortune, and fascinating marriages are the essential yearnings and gnawing questions many women may hear echoed in their own minds: How can I achieve the same freedom within a marriage my husband experiences?
" This helps her better appreciate the yearnings of the supporters of "perhaps the worst good idea ever," with settlers continuing to arrive even after World War II armed with "hope crippled by tragedy, but still alive.
But if Mr. Ryan — the author of a novel and three books for young readers — is unflinching in depicting their liabilities, he also displays a gift for excavating the dashed hopes and yearnings that lie beneath.
Populism arose in the cultural, rather than the political, arena in part because democratic yearnings were much harder to exercise in politics, where despite all the American professions of egalitarianism, the moneyed class still held sway.
In a harsh industrial age of Pre-Raphaelite yearnings, the ultragentle Florentine work came as a kind of balm, a guilty pleasure, but also an alternative way to approach the spiritual — through beauty — in a secular world.
I wondered, as I stared longingly: Why do I, a woman of a certain age, still have a penchant for glitter, decades after I should have outgrown a 7-year-old's yearnings for sparkly dress-up clothes?
" As Jean Bethke Elshtain wrote in her biography, "The world of women was, for her, a dense concoction of imperatives, yearnings, reflections, actions, joys, tragedies, laughter, tears — a complex way of knowing and being in the world.
In the 1960s he came up with "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game," making a spectacle of his contestants' romantic yearnings in the first case and their honeymoon-period bliss, adjustments and foibles in the second.
The book becomes an archive — of curiosities, yearnings, of the life of a new, fragile, fracturing family, animated by the narrator's restless energy as she churns over a way to tell the story of the refugee children.
Leading the Smiths in the 1980s, and then in a solo career that has extended to 11 albums, Morrissey has targeted himself — his shortcomings, his rationalizations, his yearnings, his peevishness — just as often as he has savaged others.
Illiterate and weary of wandering, Chad wants a better life for his two kids — you can tell because he has plastic covers on his couch — while Colby prefers to fill their heads with primitive beliefs and gutter yearnings.
To his credit, in his short time in office Mr. Moon — who, by the way, was one of Mr. Roh's top advisers during those troubled years — has leavened his own sunshine yearnings with a strong dose of realpolitik.
Now, as she cultivates a national profile that reflects the political yearnings of a movement of black women in the Democratic Party, candidates are engaging in a high-stakes fight for her backing in the 20183 Democratic presidential primary.
By then I had given myself over completely to the story, to the poignant predicament of a flawed man condemned to a moment for eternity, trapped with his memories and his yearnings, sitting alone in a pool of tears.
In his Battlestar Galactica remake and his Outlander adaptation, Moore has often just let wild fantasy be the backdrop for stories about the deepest yearnings and aspirations of human beings (or robots who look and act like human beings).
It's a terrifying if clichéd setup — an innocent girl pushing herself into dangerous spaces, unaware of what she could still lose — but from the start, Bennett imbues Nadia with such peculiar savvy that we cannot easily dismiss her yearnings.
Had she come to public view a little earlier and been able to enter into the presidential race, she may well have been at the head of the ticket and able to form and fulfill the rising generation's yearnings.
They were in their late 20s before they summoned the courage to raise their yearnings with their therapist, who had no relevant expertise, and in their early 30s when they started taking hormones, developed breasts and underwent genital surgery.
Performed in Spanish (with seat-back English subtitles) on a sleek contemporary set (by Raúl Abrego), "Exquisite Agony" wants to be a play about the human heart: its fumblings and yearnings, its bruises and scars, its generosity and viciousness.
The first two songs, "To Know Your Mission" and "Evening Prayer" contextualize  the album's existential anxiety with spiritual yearnings and wet admissions of sentimentality, but the concreteness of their details, intended to be clever, is not a substitute for wit.
To see language treated so shabbily shakes the reader's confidence; if a writer can't work her way around a sentence or land a metaphor, what assurance have we that she can parse her subjects' traumas, their complex, sometimes inchoate yearnings?
There are no solid contours yet to what form all these inchoate yearnings would take, but the sentiments are there, as real and inescapable a part of the modern landscape of the Muslim world as celebrity imams and Nike hijabs.
As frustrating and mercurial as he could be, to me, a gay American, he will always be the jurist who took my deepest yearnings for equal justice under the law and gave them mighty expression in the context of human dignity.
The visits have been marked by deep and sometimes painful reflection about identity and belonging, freighted with the yearnings of undocumented parents back in the United States who are unable to make the trip themselves without giving up everything they built.
But Booksmart doesn't lean into the sort of insufferable East Coast yearnings that Saoirse Ronan channeled so marvelously in 2017's Lady Bird, a movie that also happened to star Feldstein, and that's much more upfront about the financial realities of its characters.
Confused though the particulars of his "heroine addiction" are, his tree-huffing doggishness recedes whenever he rhymes his feminist-curious yearnings, and if his politics are too Aleister Crowley, at least he's down with the Beatles' psychedelic seer rather than Zeppelin's megalomaniac.
It's the type of power that drives many of the contemporary musicians who descend from her, like Kelela and FKA Twigs, artists who are enamored of the tension between what yearnings a voice can describe and what realities a machine can conjure.
He opens up to her and tells a sad tale of how, with children and the long hours of his job, his sex life with his wife has waned, leaving him with nothing but quick pick-ups along his route and endless yearnings.
But the joint rise of her brand and fascism came about because both tapped into and manipulated certain all-too-human, paradoxical yearnings, particularly resonant at the time: to belong to a select elite and to lose oneself in a crowd, to conform.
The day's events left nothing clear except that the clashes over the status of the region — Spain's economic powerhouse, where yearnings for a separate nation have ebbed and flowed for generations — had left supporters on both sides more hardened and polarized than before.
In "Paisajes Para No Colorear" ("Landscapes Not for Coloring"), Marco Layera directs nine Chilean girls between the ages of 13 and 17 who sound off about their adolescent frustrations and yearnings in a society that expects them to assume traditional gender roles.
Most serious readers agree: The direction of American poetry has, on the whole, remained stagnant since the widespread adoption of psychotherapy and counseling to help people grasp the complex undercurrents and fallout of family dysfunctions, grueling addictions, pitched anxieties and illicit yearnings.
"The Garden of the Finzi Continis," in which golden youths played out their sexual yearnings and ambivalences on the grounds of a palace in Ferrara owned by a glamorous Jewish family, was based on an eponymous novel by Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000).
In "Plan du Centre de Paris à Vol d'Oiseau," this is how he remembers it: yearnings & gropings fantasies & flame-outs such endless walking through the bent streets such fumbling art (models drawn with blindfolds) such highs and sweet inebriations— I salute you now.
Rosaleen, scrappy and tough, is one candidate; certainly, Lily feels entitled to her attention, and Rosaleen, racked with yearnings of her own, doesn't think to withhold it until she meets the Boatwrights and begins to see herself in more than a supporting role.
But that distinction is unimportant for political purposes, as the White House seeks to position Trump as a strong commander in chief to satisfy the yearnings of supporters who viewed the Obama administration's public arguments and self examinations over the use of force as effete.
She leaned into her autumnal yearnings and "uninspired" look, and ironically posted four other pictures for Twitter to make fun of — ones that looked "good," she said: If all of Twitter is gonna make fun of my fall photos, at least pick some good ones!
" Madia told me that because South Africans' aspirations—for more economic justice, for less racism, for less worship of a far-off Western standard of leadership and life—had become associated with such a tainted vehicle, Zuma, these deeper yearnings for change became "a bit discredited.
"Ghost Town" — built on thick, dramatic psychedelic guitar and organ buildups sampled from Vanilla Fudge — is a montage of unfulfilled yearnings that culminates in the album's most striking cameo, from the New Jersey rapper and singer 070 Shake, who was 20 when the album came out.
I joined the Woodstock community group last summer when I was renting in the area with the usual new-in-town yearnings: a good gym, live music and a seasonal romance, though if it turned into something longer I would certainly have contacted the Guinness Records people.
But in giving her a chance to "individuate" — to come into her own, to become whole — Emma was able to do something that most women of her generation could never do: to further their educations, to fulfill their yearnings to be part of the wider world.
"How can you learn your innermost yearnings from your enemy?" is one provocative question the Hogwarts Haggadah asks, making comparisons between Pharaoh Ramses II and the Death Eater Barty Crouch Jr. Rabbi Rosenberg's Haggadah sold 2,300 copies in the first week after its release in March.
Indeed, as this book underscores, today's battles between hard-liners and more moderate and reformist forces are part of a historical clash between political and religious principles, as well as tensions between nationalistic yearnings for authenticity and a philosophical openness to (even fascination with) Western ideas and ideals.
There's an opaque comment about immigration here, a reference to the country's oil economy there, scattered between hundreds and hundreds of pages devoted to 33s indie rock, drunken mishaps, sexual yearnings, an emotionally abusive father, the finer details of parenting, and, above all, the great struggle to make art.
For nearly 800 pages, she is basically silent on any conflict with Hughes, but after hundreds of letters delineating domestic improvements and yearnings, one begins to suspect that there is a bigger problem in her house that she is trying to fix, a more profound anxiety she is trying to quiet.
The inchoate sexual yearnings heating up inside Wendla (a pre-"Glee" Lea Michele in the original) are movingly depicted by the dark-eyed Ms. Frank, both through the urgent movements of her signing and her expressive face, in which we can read the bright hunger for experience — and the embarrassment of ignorance.
It's compelling, in a paradoxical way, that an art movement committed to the removal of personal expression would take such a Romantic outlook on the renewal of art and society, since Romanticism was at the root of the irrational impulse in German culture (epitomized by the ecstatic yearnings of Wagnerian opera) that transmogrified into Nazism.
Mr. Seyed Emami is also among a growing number of prominent Iranians and Westerners, at least six of them Iranian-Americans and others with dual passports, who have been imprisoned in what analysts say is a deadly serious competition between conservatives in Iran clinging to the revolution and those trying to respond to widespread yearnings for change.
He upbraids the European Union for insufficient sensitivity to the national yearnings of Poland and Hungary — never quite saying whether the E.U.'s error has been in condemning those countries' drift toward illiberal democracy or in admitting them into the E.U. club in the first place — and admonishes the Clinton and Obama administrations for a similar tin ear toward Russia.
Ms. Zernowitski — who in keeping with modesty strictures wears a wig, but one so subtle it is impossible to notice — sees herself as embodying the generational yearnings of ultra-Orthodox voters who, unlike forebears who saw the land of Israel as holy but were uncertain about the state, want to feel more fully a part of the country in which they are citizens.
Although the hedonism tends more generalized on "Housequake" and "It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night" and "Play in the Sunshine" ("Before my life is done someway somehow I'm gonna have fun" could be Prince's manifesto), elsewhere he either has sex in some form or another or broods about it, which goes along with the dance music and lends his spiritual yearnings a concrete outlet.
Edward Said, May Peace Be Upon Him, regarded Orientalism as an Occidentalist illusion, and the Orient itself as "a theatrical stage affixed to Europe" upon which "Westerners" from Flaubert to Napoleon projected their lavish fantasies of violent djinns and nymphomaniacal houris, which were ultimately more revelatory of the psychic yearnings of European culture than of the daily lives of diverse "Easterners": Turks, Egyptians, Iranians and Syrians.
"In hundreds of photographs of plants that have not been retouched or artificially manipulated, Mr. Robert Voit from Munich has provided proof of the peculiar yearnings for a form created equally by the human spirit and by the natural processes of vegetal growth," writes author and curator Christoph Schaden in an introduction to The Alphabet of New Plants, which was recently published in English and German by Hatje Cantz.
But while readers may pick up on this novel's many allusions and borrowings (for instance, its nods to Gillian Flynn's "Gone Girl" and Lauren Groff's "Fates and Furies," in creating a stereoscopic portrait of a marriage), "Stay With Me" feels entirely fresh, thanks to its author's ability to map tangled familial relationships with nuance and precision, and her intimate understanding of her characters' yearnings, fears and self-delusions.
Anthony Kane: At first it was just interesting to watch people jump out of the way... Alex Niven: Yes, I suppose there is this sense that in a post-modern, post-religious world that people look for big symbolic focal points – that somehow you can kind of congregate around and use as a sort of vessel for yearnings and ideas and hopes and dreams in the way that religion or nationalism might have provided in the past.

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