I am going away, she thought, and for the first time the reminder brought no delight, only a deeper longing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As we drove back to the city in the early evening, I felt a new ache, some freshly planted seed of longing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he has been longing for a tiny home—something smaller, of course, than Hill House; perhaps he will come home with you.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The memory of her ghost haunts me, makes me realize that the pain, the longing, the wanting, never goes away. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I only know that I’m longing for something... The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But working against this fear was their longing and need to find more does and the knowledge that there were plenty of does in Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were rare moments when a feeling and longing for solidarity with other black people would take hold of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

More than anyone, she knew how fiercely Linda McCullough had always wanted a baby, how deep that longing to be a mother—that magical, marvelous, terrifying role—ran in her friend. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Frankie did hear about the party and he heard about the presents and a feeling of fullness swelled in him and a feeling of sick longing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By and by longing became heavier than sex: a panting, unmanageable craving. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t like how my tongue starts longing for chicken and gravy the way she used to cook it in the old days. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their collective longing thickened in their throats, Helen’s especially. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minerva says a soul is like a deep longing in you that you can never fill up, but you try. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Cuckoo made haste to say, “Anyone can see the thing and a lovely lad he is and too big for idleness and longing.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you can glimpse a person's soul in just a flicker of expression, and Sarai glimpsed Ruby's then: the longing that was the core of her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I guess he knows more about Cajuns than anyone living, but I remembered with longing other gifts of Doctor St. Martin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about last time, when I kissed him before I left—the look on his face, longing and frustration and anger. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It brought with it amorphous longings, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It certainly sounds intriguing! And I’ve been longing for another case!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And with but a few minutes between him and the beginning of judgment, the obscure longing to possess the thing which Max had dimly evoked in him was still a motive. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several little girls onboard gave Edward deep glances full of longing. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t about being reunited with my mother anymore, but still I could not suppress an almost overwhelming sense of longing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I bowed my head to the god of desperate longing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I used to see all kinds of things in her eyes, love and longing and curiosity, but now all I see is anger. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But when she sits down at the piano, I'm longing to hear her play, too, like she used to. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He spent his days on the seashore, searching the horizon for a sail that never came, sick with longing to see even the smoke curling up from his house. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was longing more and more to know what was written on the pillar. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

That’s how it had always been; my longing for her nearly always came late at night when my guard was down. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

How to explain to these two children the longing in my heart for what they had? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was such longing in his voice that it went to Meggie's heart. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exhausted Humbug swayed and tottered on his rubbery legs, a look of longing on his anguished face. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled of old sweat, and she felt a sudden piercing longing for that Old Spice left behind in Nsukka. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

What was the good in longing for something you could not have? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

As he become marginally self-aware, he discovered loneliness, regret, and longing. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her eyes, much too big for her pinched little face, gazed at Kit with longing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m longing to see your dress,” said Beatrice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She felt eighty years old, worn out and weary and longing to die. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some drawings, like Munch’s, were full of pain, others hopeful, longing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes, longing for a sleep that would not come. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She began to feel a deep longing in the pit of her stomach: When would she get there? Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner I listened to the cheerful chatter of my friends while longing for the isolation of my room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A scolding or even a beating might be better than this, he thought, longing for the easy chatter and laughter that usually accompanied their meals. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

While she was wanting her own daughter back, I was longing for Mother not to be disappointed in me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My hands are white at the knuckles, I clench them so tightly in my longing for the fire to cease so that my comrades may come. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, every cat behaved like that, but all the same Will felt such a longing for home that tears scalded his eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a longing to see Katie before her confinement, so she gave the insurance collector a message. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking at the Map of Days, even the places that sounded most forbidding evoked in me a strange longing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A wave of longing washed through her and a dryness caught in her throat that the tea could not moisten. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Grief, terror, love, longing — these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the possibility had occurred to him at the oasis, the longing returned until it became a constant ache. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over and over again Elizabeth had discussed their first meeting, for she was secretly longing to be reassured that Tao would not have forgotten her. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there was a God, He’d guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I’d cut loose my pain, my longing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Compounding my anxiety was the one deep longing that far outmatched any material wish: I knew I wanted to have children, sooner rather than later. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A great longing came over them for the faces and voices of their companions, especially for Frodo and Sam, and for Strider. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When Lourdes finally danced with her nephew, she felt beholden to the congas, to a powerful longing to dance. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the same longing in her voice that Gum Baby had when she dreamed about becoming a pilot. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pretended not to see Annabeth wipe a tear from her cheek as she listened to the mournful keening of Cerberus in the distance, longing for his new friend. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was only the face of Antonapoulos in his mind, and his longing for his friend was so sharp that he held his breath. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her longing was so great, she might throw herself into the river. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he imagines the house where Bridget’s husband lives alone, longing for her, with his unfaithful wife’s name on the mailbox, her lipstick beside his shaving things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Beiderman looked down at her in surprise, his face filled with both despair and longing. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Even now, free of the Whisperer’s metallic grip, Reynie found himself longing for that sensation of perfect security, of not being alone... The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

What fun it would be to make something warm and pretty for Prudence, she thought with longing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that cares nothing for hope or longing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longing for it hit her hard, a physical ache. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was always, among them, such a stew of envy and longing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Flatnose cast the van a longing glance, then trudged after him, grumbling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old lady couldn’t resist her longing to see her nephew, for she had met Laurie as she took her airing, and hearing of Mr. March’s arrival, drove straight out to see him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might be that his dreams and his longing, and his outlets for that matter, made him feel unworthy, drove him sometimes whining into the hills. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was such longing in her words, such hunger. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was feeling the words of the preacher, feeling that life was flesh nailed to the world, a longing spirit imprisoned in the days of the earth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looks out into the field at the path Pa once walked, crying and longing for him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am delirious with longing and the fulfillment of that longing, the desire to touch his warm skin, trace the sinew and muscle just under the surface, pulsing with life. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She looked back with longing at the land of her birth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of her all the time and longing to be back with her, he had allowed himself this one indulgence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sudden longing for it flooded through him, surprising him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden she thought it was silly that he lived so and went to New York and came home longing for where he had been. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Watching them holding hands and exchanging longing glances, I wonder what it would be like to have somebody look at me like that. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I know I do—teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I’m longing to enjoy myself at home,” began Meg, in the complaining tone again. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It pulled at her brain like longing, and Hazel wanted it to go away. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A terrible thirst and hunger came over him and a longing to taste that fruit. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He recognized the song that sprang forth - the same wistful melody Calypso sang for him on Ogygia about homesickness and longing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the door he stood and said: “Lord Marshal, Menelaos, send me home now to my own dear country: longing has come upon me to go home.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen Pearl watching Trip for months, like a mouse watching a cat, longing to be eaten. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They worked willingly to build her a temple, and when it was finished Demeter came to it and sat there—apart from the gods in Olympus, alone, wasting away with longing for her daughter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Indiana, Elizebeth confessed that she was “consumed by thoughts of dear, intimate things that burn one up with a fire of longing and ache of wanting you.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The hunger that arcs through me is an epic, longing kind. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naima didn’t say anything, but she let her longing to take this chance show on her face. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

His letters were drenched with lonesome longing for his girl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Summer's howls were long and sad, full of grief and longing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At once an irresistible longing for the sea took possession of him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longing in Jack’s voice pulls me out of my own thoughts. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even my own hair is longing for her thick fingers in my scalp—the way she would part and grease and braid and hum and tell sad or funny stories. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had obviously not expected the item he was supposed to steal—which had made the old man's voice quiver with longing—would be a piece of old wood! The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It glowed as brightly as a holly berry in the dimness, and several of them had brushed through it, longing for the contact with something so vibrantly alive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I looked at all the children coming and going in the stores, most of them excited to see Santa Claus, and 1 felt the greatest longing to see my own. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he ached toward her with a longing that was passionate and hot. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lowered his eyes; he knew that they were longing to ask him questions and he did not want that. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’s pretending to sweep, longing for a closer view, or maybe she’s daring to wish to be in a parade herself one day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a surge of memories, Kit could almost feel the deck lifting beneath her feet, and a longing almost like homesickness caught at her throat. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

This note read: I can no longer hide my longing for you, gentle Guildenstern. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He watched the swimmers train, studying their strokes and regimen, longing to be part of it himself. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But every once in a while a wave of longing will hit me and it’s all I can do not to hijack a plane to Havana or something. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five feet away from me, that night at the pool, walking to see the lights, on the other side of the glass that last night, always that longing between us to close the gap. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Lost in longing, Louie imagined himself on a train, rolling into country he couldn’t see, growing smaller and more distant until he disappeared. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

That’s what this feels like, but where each of the new frames I add is just a blank screen of longing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The longing threatened to claw my insides raw. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Later, driven by an agony of longing to know what had happened to him, she went back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

John dropped a brick in the wagon, then walked up to my seat, all his grief flooding into a sense of longing, a need for escape. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

A victory for nostalgic racists longing for the “good old days” of segregated units and separate bathrooms. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Salt tears rose from the wells of longing in both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestlings farmers take before they fly. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel a longing in my chest when we pass Apá’s abandoned childhood home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And it tasted good, so it said one more time, with a sigh of delight and of longing, MASTER... The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I was the plain robin among them, longing for freedom and unable to sing for the bars around me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He’s told me a bit about the past, about his parents and about himself, but it’s not enough, and every five minutes I wonder why I find myself longing for more. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was strange now, erratic, sometimes needing my friendship, trusting me with her dangerous longings for freedom, her wild plans to run away again; and sometimes hating me, blaming me for her trouble. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Here was her humanity externalized, and all her longing—for freedom, from disgust, from the confines of her metal cage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As I sift through these memories, as I put together this story, I feel such gratitude and such longing—not Vic’s, but my own. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was comforting to see that the whole household was longing for his return, but his purpose held firm. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness—self-preservation of an uglier stripe. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As periwinkles etched the beach with their purple trails, and sea foam blew off the waves and tumbled across the beach as if longing for a dog to come out and play. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the cover, the woman with longing eyes and red hair scarf stares back at me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She imagined with longing the warm air and earthy smell of the greenhouse, where she could have worked with Clary, the greenhouse manager, someone she’d known all her life. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Quite wretched, I should say, and sick with longing for their lost child. They made a terrible mistake and will always regret it. When I told them you were safe, your parents’ relief overwhelmed them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Watching them, I felt a longing for something I knew I would never have. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harry saw the longing expression on his face in its golden light. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Cupid was healed of his wound by now and longing for Psyche. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could go with you,” Sifen said from his bed, the longing obvious in his voice. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“He's bent near double with longing for her, isn't it so?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This had all helped get me fascinated, and I was soon longing to become engrossed myself in those ornate pieces. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have answered without hesitation that my only ambition, my hope, my longing was to have a bike like that and to go whizzing down the hill with no hands on the handlebars. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hubristic longings of a child seminarian were to carry Europe out of the cloister of medieval thought. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the faintest trace of longing in his voice as he looked at the Elder Wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Bod wondered if it was longing that he saw on Silas’s face, or sorrow, or something else, but his guardian’s face was unreadable. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he woke at night with a longing so sharp, it felt like a knife. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the day, when the field was open, Guy would walk up to the basket, staring at it with the same kind of longing that most men display when they admire very pretty girls. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So rang their song in lovely cadences, and Odysseus’ heart ached with longing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the room, Zak stares too, the expression on his face something between longing and puzzlement. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His longings would have been familiar to W. E. B. Du Bois, who, when he was almost exactly Fuller’s age, had written in his diary: I rejoice as a strong man to run a race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of it made her heart ache with longing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Young girls sighed at the thought of meeting him and mothers longing to have him as their son-in-law fought for the honor of having the family as their guest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My body was heavy with longing, my heart—for the first time—full of hate. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was longing for peace but on his own terms. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He read contemporary American fiction, because he hoped to find a resonance, a shaping of his longings, a sense of the America that he had imagined himself a part of. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ah, but in the schoolroom, at Christmas and graduation, when the mothers of other children came to the parties—then was the silent cry and the wordless longing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time I saw this longing of mine as trivial and absurd, because I’d taken such magazines lightly enough once. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling of resentment and the balked longing for some kind of fulfilment and exultation—in degrees more or less intense and in actions more or less conscious—stalk day by day through this land. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Farder Coram touched the spray of pine as if for luck, and on his face was an expression Lyra had never seen before: almost a longing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Meet you in every dream...Keep most of your heart in Washington...Miss you like a home...We two longing loves...My young king.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid of myself, afraid my longing is making me yield too soon. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But in the evenings the suppressed longing of the entire day, the happiness and the bliss of all the times before come rushing to the surface, and all we can think about is each other. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Behind them, the goose was beating his wings powerfully, throwing snow over the tracks they’d made; and near him, fire lost daemons were clustering or drifting away, crying little bleak cries of loss and longing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The cheers lose their gusto and a pure longing to flee floods Werner. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They wrapped around her, poured into her nostrils and became her blood, sanctified her spirit with their longing. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then there are others where fable, myth, preconception, love, longing, or prejudice step in and so distort a cool, clear appraisal that a kind of high-colored magical confusion takes permanent hold. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the people of the lake region discover this, the longing to leave becomes acute, and a break from the area, therefore, is necessarily dream-bitten, but necessary nonetheless. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I give David one last, longing look. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

After that evening my longing to see it again was even greater than my fear of burglars, a dark rat-infested house or police raids. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I've seen him drunk and sober, hungry and sated, loud and louder, in love and in longing. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers over the writing utensils, longing to use them for my own drawings. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

One day, when the wound was smarting terribly, Siddhartha rowed across the river, consumed by longing, and got out of the boat with the purpose of going to the town to seek his son. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time he walked by it, he picked it up and stared at it with longing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When the worn girl reached the gently flowing stream, a great longing seized her to throw herself into it and end all her pain and despair. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too many long to be one of us—and knowing that they can never be makes their longing even greater, for all scythes are apprenticed in their youth. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As I think back to that way of life now so distant, I feel a sense of longing, particularly for my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That letter is so full of longing and gratitude for his wife being in his life. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but I die a hero,” said Aziza, “while you, Rose, you spend your entire, miserable life longing for me.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And yet, positively: The ability to consider experience so abstractly allowed me to shape into desire what would otherwise have remained indefinite, meaningless longing in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bordonis were childless, and when the wife died in ripe years a lonely longing for his Alpine past fell on her husband. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sneaked through the woods longing to make his big kill—if only a deer just his size would pass by, or a moose, maybe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She had written that “my feeling of longing after our lost treasure makes me feel painfully indifferent to the other children, but I shall get right in my feelings to them before long.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinmei felt a longing wash over her, and she shook her head. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Yet there existed in us a longing to trust men of our own color. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she looked with longing at the main house all the time. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had loved Africa and was longing to go back. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I leaned back into Great-great-aunt Florentine’s pillows, I was filled to overflowing with a longing to talk with her. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If only I could be here alone, without Judith or anyone, she thought with longing. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

All the longing and resentment Alex had felt had been for no reason whatsoever. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My mother gave me a dry sandwich and I munched and stared, longing to go home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance awoke a longing in her like a cord pulled suddenly taut: She wanted so much to go back. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a sliver of pain, of longing in me: Don’t go yet! Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom?” is all I can get out, but it’s squeaky and filled with longing to pull her through the phone wires to sit with me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

A cold wind blew somewhere in me, lifting little leaves of terror and obscure longing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young men all over India listened, felt a longing and a hope. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters we exchange are filled with hope and longing and a vague sense of the importance of the mission of the American troops. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

‘This is a place of longing,’ Varus said. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

A longing nurtured and nursed over many years. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

With that longing in my heart, I closed my eyes and actually fell asleep right there on the school bench. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And all there was between us now was the embarrassed silence and unsatisfied longing in a darkened room. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re not free to do anything but what we did,” Sean answered, watching with no little longing the young man who walked to his own inner music. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mayhap he was unhappy and longing for her and she would bring him back to the inn and take care of him as Girtle did Rosebud. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a last longing look at Starry, her ex-seatmate flashes his U.S. passport and leaves customs and immigration. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Really? I thought you were longing for a little adventure.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For a moment fierce longing and regret warred across his face. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look at the oranges, longing for one. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Luna could feel her mother’s magic—as well as her mother’s longing and love—buzzing against her skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She was longing to tell Matilda about her plan of battle. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can barely stomach the overwhelming longing I feel to return there. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my head, I keep travelling back to Holkham; it’s odd that I still think of it, on mornings like this, with such affection, such longing, but I do. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced with longing at the books on tape and the earphones, which had been shoved into a corner. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“There in Mexico I was thinking of you all the time, and longing for you.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Their bellies ached with hunger, and the earlier thrill of losing a few pounds before pageant time had been replaced with a terrible, desperate longing for food. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was the goal of all of them, yearning, desiring, suffering; and the river’s voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes caught mine, and I looked away, wondering if he had seen the longing in my eyes. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Still she lives in places like that, and they say she has so wasted away with longing that only her voice now is left to her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But people are full of longings, and decade after decade, the hopes kept coming. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The war is going to go on despite our quarrels and our longing for freedom and fresh air, so we should try to make the best of our stay here. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was afraid of betraying her longing, in case it all should come to nothing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We grew to know each other through our longings and cherished memories. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Within a few years, she was using men as a substitute for her father and her adolescent longing for him. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A longing caressed him, and it was so sharp that he wanted to cry to get it out of his breast. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is so much what my own mother would say that I am swept with longing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of his parents’ clothing nearly made him sick with longing. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The inhabitants met them with kindness and gave them their flower-food to eat, but those who tasted it, only a few fortunately, lost their longing for home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of longing, but not hearts’ longing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go away, then,” I responded, unable to hide the longing in my voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Luke could remember a time when his greatest longing had been for Mark to outgrow the train so Luke could have it all to himself. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was time to go: Just thinking of the Whisperer filled him with longing, even made him want to stay.... The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The clarity of that memory, the sudden stab of longing it brought, left her unsteady. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The doctor had once for a short time been a part of the great world and his whole subsequent life was memory and longing for France. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight on his back was nothing compared with the weight of his longing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then, in order, he thought of her holding his head and his baby crying, crying with longing, wanting something and in a way feeling that he was getting it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still others projected their hurts and longings into more naive and mundane forms—blues, jazz, swing—and, without intellectual guidance, tried to build up a compensatory nourishment for themselves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fyrian hid behind the crinkly curtain of the old woman’s hair, staring at the baby with a combination of fear and jealousy and longing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A pang of longing shoots through my chest. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Especially one who looks at me with those youthful, longing eyes and tugs me to talk about my feelings. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But Riddle’s hunger was now apparent; his expression was greedy, he could no longer hide his longing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I had an ache inside, a longing, but I didn’t know where it came from or why I had it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Beth,” said Amy, longing for her turn, but ready to wait. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about we make some tea, huh? You can make the fire. Doing physical things takes away the loneliness and longing.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There was a longing in many of the eyes he saw, like people truly thought they were being saved by some divine power. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Many of the animals behind him were swift ones; it was the first run they had ever taken in their lives and they were all longing to use their new muscles. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Obinze felt repulsion and longing; he pitied them, but he also imagined being like them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He thought with longing, but contentment, of that other basin ... the one that had been exactly right and never completed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stretched toward the tortoise as if longing to embrace it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hard as we tried to resist it in our family, wasn’t no getting rid of that longing for approval from white folks. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I forgave Kia for his mistake and apologized for yelling at him, and returned to my favorite hobby: lying in bed and listening to depressing songs that perfectly captured my longing and despair. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She pictured her sister, Annie, standing at the kitchen window, the baby on her hip, the longing stealing over her face like a ghost hand, the muted cries later in the shower. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Along the fence, the old drunk was moaning a melody that Princesse had never heard him sing before, a sad longing tune that reminded her of the wail of the conch shell. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Each time, he'd cycle through feelings of anger, regret, longing, hope, despair, longing, anger, regret. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I dig around inside myself, trying to register anger, hatred, longing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Robin Hood looks up at David, a mixture of hope and longing in his eyes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Head down, hands over her breasts, Hannah walked through the line of soldiers, remembering how childish she’d thought the blue dress and longing for it. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tne little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not knowing the intent of Hamlet’s letter, I would take care not to express my longing for him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We were going at last and I took a last longing look as the bus shot around the highway which circled the school. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each offering represents a dream, a desire, a longing. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he expressed his longing for Poland, at that time swallowed up in the Russian Empire, through his highly stylised adaptation of Polish folk dances - mazurkas and polonaises. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

With a half smile, I turn back to Taryn, who watches the dancers with longing, oblivious to much else. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He hated the evil that lived in his body, and he feared it, as he feared and hated the lions of lust and longing that prowled the defenseless city of his mind. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Which may be a cruel thing to do, but I’m hoping he will use his longing to get out of this small, small house. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But now, more than love or an unfulfilled longing, I feel pity for my biological mother. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She spoke about her secret hopes and fears and longings. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s all new but not new, sweeter from the longing and the reunion. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She came out of her troubled slumber uneasy and heavy with longing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The old woman took a deep breath and looked toward the empty road beyond the gate, her face filled with longing. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It stretched out before him, narrow and stony and pocked with weeds, a road of no particular promise, yet die sight of it filled Jon Snow with, a vast longing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No man handled a ship better than he did in a high wind and sea, so Menelaos put down his longing to get on, and landed to give this man full honor in funeral. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pride forbid, and whenever the longing grew very strong, he fortified his resolution by repeating the words that had made the deepest impression—“I despise you.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weight of years of longing for it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His letters were certainly warm enough, filled with his worries about us and his longing to be back home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a joy there, if oblique, left-handed, and Wen probably thought here was a man with whom he could share a longing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He had been longing to come here all year, and had such great expectations”—clearly he had told her everything!—“and now it has ended like this.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“My people had wings once,” she says, the longing clear in her voice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had this bad longing to be back there that sat in my stomach like a twenty-pound weight. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Watching soccer practice brings me a pang that’s part longing, part regret, and part resentment. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A wave of longing swept over me; I hadn’t heard that hymn since Charlie’s last Sunday at church. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One minute I’m longing for peace and quiet, and the next for a little fun. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mademoiselle had glided from the Chopin into the quivering love notes of Isolde’s song, and back again to the Impromptu with its soulful and poignant longing. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

My thoughts and emotions tangle—longing and confusion and uncertainty, but beneath the chaos in my mind, the tender reeds of hope take root and grow inside me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

What if that stupid longing for something cold and wet doesn’t go away even after you die? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I am breathless, and I can feel my heartbeat even in my fingertips; I am overwhelmed, teeming with loss and wonder and anger and longing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The emotion of years of unfulfilled longing preened in their voices. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a longing that almost split him open, he thought of her handing him a bit of smoked hock out of her dish. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writing freely about her hopes and fears and longings, she told him that her love for him was “shameless.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That old longing spread under me like a great lap, holding me tight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope looked with sudden longing at the sumptuous fabrics arrayed before her. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

They were longing to start cheering but they didn't dare. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Adaon’s face was bright in the early rays of the sun, but a trace of longing had come into his voice. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The longing in his heart was almost painful. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The results were love letters that dripped with longing and by their high tone made Abra very uneasy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Elena would remember that look on her mother’s face, that longing to bring the world closer to perfection—like turning the peg of a violin and bringing the string into tune. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Abra looked at his sunny hair, tight-curled now, and at his eyes that seemed near to tears, and she felt the longing and the itching burn in her chest that is the beginning of love. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as she had never seriously thought of having a child until now; the longing in the lower part of her belly was sudden and searing and new. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He dreamed of it like a lover, with a simple longing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Minerva’s eyes as she fixed them on her sister were full of longing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine him creating this, his face turned skyward, too, longing to see the stars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I am unable to reply, so full am I with longing for the mother I never knew. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There’s only one possible answer: “I’m longing so much...and have for such a long time. I’m so lonely and now I’ve found comfort!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Peering into cases of exotic butterflies from distant lands—glittering even in death—Maria once again felt a deep longing to know more about them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My soul is full of longing all right. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was calm at breakfast but under his tranquillity I sensed excitement, and something like longing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jo confesses that she is still weak from her difficult years of longing for that other man. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This lodestone of longing, this certainty, drew him to lead his companions ever westward through wild and unknown country, as unerringly as a carrier pigeon released from an alien loft. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing women and their children walking happily along a street, I’d feel a pang of longing followed by a bruising wallop of inadequacy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The pain becomes an ache, spreads everywhere—all mixed together, guilt and terror and longing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was not crazy for seeing ghosts nor was she one of those the women teased for “longing” after men. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No measure of longing, no hint that this is a place I’ve been, a place I could’ve stayed, a place that might have missed me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet the fiercer the longing for the Hallows burned inside him, the less joyful it made him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He sometimes had longings to leave veterinary medicine and devote himself full-time to clocks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched their wings shining like bits of chrome in the dark and felt the longing build in my chest. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not want his touch, and yet she did: she burned with longing and froze with rage. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I sighed wearily, longing for my own bed and an end to questions that had no answers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My heart leaped at the longing so soon fulfilled by mere wishing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There was no plot, no action, nothing save atmosphere and longing and death. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a fly to her, a fly she was longing to swat; her tail thrashed again, but he was too high to reach now. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When longing squeezed, then tossed her before running off promising to return and bounce her again like an India-rubber ball? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His name brought back all my fear and confusion and longing to go home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The minstrel drew sweet sounds from his lyre and waked in all the longing for the dance. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sick with longing for it, they followed her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She looked directly at Pinmei, and the love and longing Pinmei had carried for so long melted in her like a piece of ice in warm tea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were upon Perrington as well—filled not with the longing of a beloved, but with cold contemplation. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

How could she tell this woman of the horrors of her forced nights with Clay or her gut-wrenching longing for her mother? Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make it so pleasant he won’t want to go away. My dear, he’s longing for his little home, but it isn’t home without you, and you are always in the nursery.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought with longing of the house my grandmother had before she sold it to come and live with us, and then with my Aunt Libby. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She might have thrown Dill a few longing glances herself. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

With every heartbeat comes a sharp longing to run. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I wanna have a Eureka moment,” he said, the way another kid might have expressed longing for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I gritted my teeth as the daily value of pork chops was tabulated, longing to be at home with my writing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This longing may change in intensity, but it's always there. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

This is not all the truth, but it must suffice, for words cannot draw the vast map of my longing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

With one last longing glance at the crate and the symbol on it, Sefia headed off into the jungle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There’s something about the way their eyes outline her body and settle on her face, a sort of longing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It did not satisfy desire, and at times Sam’s mind was filled with the memories of food, and the longing for simple bread and meats. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fear and longing were too much for him, so he began to think of other things. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed listening to Nately, whose maudlin, bittersweet lamentations mirrored much of his own romantic desolation and never failed to evoke in him resurgent tides of longing for his wife and children. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He would heal her and together they would suffer the duller ache of longing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was a look, almost like longing, that passed over his features like a soft cloud. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

His inattentive students, longing for the end of the day, took little notice, I suspect, of the historic moment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of these activities helped to pass the time, and the weeks went by quickly, but they did not lessen our longing to get away. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I see in the folds of his eyes a longing for something that’s bigger than myself. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I loved them both, but they satisfied different longings. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had seen him look that way at her, and knew there was a longing to his gaze. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’m here, living and breathing and longing and feeling. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And I had said it with all the longing I felt for Kevin who was now too far away for me to reach through any effort of my own. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The gesture brought her longing coupled with despair. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry did not laugh at Ron, because he understood too well the longing behind the question. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His eyes would follow them, with a lost longing, and he would think: You can work, you are legal, you are visible, and you don’t even know how fortunate you are. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The dirt roads of Mexico fulfilled all my longing for the unusual. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard him pace back and forth on the second floor, had seen his eyes’ longing look when he talked to Ahmad on the phone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They had no tensions, unappeasable longings, no desire to do something to redeem themselves. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only stories of love pass through our post-mortal filter, yet even then, we are baffled by the intensity of longing and loss that threatens those mortal tales of love. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And at the same time, keeping pace with these longings, our distaste for the city grew and grew and became a sweeping, pervading hatred. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

One dress, in a pale, sea-green color, made Stella trace its outline with longing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After New Year’s the second big change occurred: my dream, through which I discovered my longing for...a boy; not for a girlfriend, but for a boyfriend. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Roman's observation underscores how difficult it is for those of us preoccupied with the humdrum concerns of adulthood to recall how forcefully we were once buffeted by the passions and longings of youth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s belief in and longing for the Hallows consumed him so much that he felt quite isolated from the other two and their obsession with the Horcruxes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ever since about ten thirty last night, he’d been longing for this moment. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I leaned forward on the table, resting my chin on my folded arms, my hidden fingers gripping the table’s edge as I fought to ignore the irrational longing that unsettled me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I see you on the front step, waiting and longing for my letters. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Later, seeking out magazines and books and films and secondhand stories about America, his longing took on a minor mystical quality and America became where he was destined to be. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They got along well—but it's not like he burned with longing for her. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He would be, of all, the mightiest, the most beloved, the Lord’s anointed; and he would live in this shining city which his ancestors had seen with longing from far away. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I could, of course, forget what I had read, thrust the whites out of my mind, forget them; and find release from anxiety and longing in sex and alcohol. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They accept my decision, but there’s a kind of longing in them that remains unsatisfied. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Denethor followed him, and stood trembling, looking with longing on the face of his son. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Arthur went off with him, casting back a longing look on Lucy’s face, which lay in her pillow, almost whiter than the lawn. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They also knew that the black community had been longing for the opportunity to break down barriers that had been in place for years and achieve a better education for their children. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Energy was never lost, but she would be lost, and her memories with her, and all her longing, and all her love. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All of this is nothing, however, against Enrique’s longing for his mother, who left him behind eleven years ago. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were times when this longing dissolved all my defenses until all that was left were tears that couldn’t be contained. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He made a few more jerky movements up and down, several times casting a longing glance at the lavatory pan. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I crawled to the end of the bed, near the block tower, and closed my eyes, longing to be engulfed in the magic protection of its walls. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I slept very little that night, kept awake by my longing for my home and by Hari’s coughing in the next room. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was missing me very much and using the bed must have relieved the feeling of longing a bit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could swipe it away, he brushed his finger across my cheek, close enough to my mouth that I felt a shiver of longing pass through me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps now we will have some peace,” said Uncle Amin, his face filled with a mixture of hope and longing. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then he had been sure of his work, only with these personal longings for adventure. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that—little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dizzying collage of smells, moments, emotions, longings sped through Sierra’s entire body. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I thought of my mother and sisters still there, and it made my chest tighten with longing. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a terrible longing for all the people in the dream overcame her and she moaned softly. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buddy was sitting there longing for a job like his. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy felt a little twinge of longing for her mom to look at her and tell her it was okay, but she was quiet. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Most of all he felt the most stupendous relief, and a longing to sleep. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Their longing for them was great enough to make them never give up laboring to see them clearly, until at last the thunder and lightning were changed into the Universal Father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha also felt a longing and the stir of sex in him; but as he had never yet touched a woman, he hesitated a moment, although his hands were ready to seize her. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flossie swung her head to meet his, and Devine experienced a terribly powerful but undefined longing as they kissed, and he licked his own sperm from off her tongue. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When home from the hotel circuit, Howard’s longings were for the simplicities of small-town life: spending time with family and friends and working in the family’s poolroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He looks over his shoulder, and for a second his expression is full of longing. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Before this, I always looked to the desert with longing,” said Fatima. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not thought about her mother in some time, and a sharp bolt of longing flashed through her chest. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

How well I recall it, how grateful I am that not all the clamour which invaded our lives later could subdue the memory or still the longing for it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naima made herself chew and swallow, longing to fling herself on her mat and cover her face. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

She once told him that she did not have that fabled female longing to give birth, and her mother had called her abnormal until Kainene said she didn’t have it either. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Francie sat numb, longing for that doll with all her soul. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a horrible pang of envy then, a longing for Saturdays spent lying on the sofa with the newspapers and a hazy memory of leaving the club the night before. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked back at the cottage, thought of Nina standing behind the gate, eyes full of pain and longing, a longing she could fill. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some say she sent him word that she was longing to go back to her home and that she had the Fleece for him if he would meet her that night at a certain spot. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longing in Eliza’s voice as she sings about aching to see Hamilton again, and wow, I loved every second of this. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A faint sense of longing tugged at her, but she couldn’t be sure what she longed for. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But I tell him the rest—studying in secret and watching the students walk by in their uniforms and longing to go to school and dreaming of leaving the Doctorita one day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the longing that rose inside him as he stood looking at the familiar, friendly gate, he knew it had been a mistake to come at all. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Words of desire and longing wrapping around her waist, flowing down the train of her gown as it spills over the platform. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Filled with longing, I wiped tears from my eyes with the back of my hand. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was a mystery here in this house, a great mystery, there was no doubt about that, and Matilda was longing to find out what it was. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you are right,” she says, her voice growing desperate with fear and longing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He grasped my hands, sending a spark through my body that made me feel weak with longing for him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The advertisement on NTA for Andrew Checking Out, which he had watched as a child, had given shape to his longings. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They insisted on letting the world in on their longing for a mother who wouldn’t cook a meal for them. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His longing for Ibadan because of “Ibadan” had puzzled her; how could a string of words make a person ache for a place he did not know? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sun is shining, the sky is deep blue, there’s a magnificent breeze, and I’m longing—really longing—for everything: conversation, freedom, friends, being alone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t bother to hide the longing in his voice. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The longing to look out became so strong she couldn’t resist it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure exactly what was going on with the sex in either book, but the conflict and longing between the women in The Well of Loneliness were interesting. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Feeling a vague longing come over me, I lowered my eyes and made a deep curtsy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She reaches out to touch the image in the mirror with a gesture of longing and apprehension. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much difference between longing and greed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

What was it that plagued her with this longing to turn back? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped to read of Hamlet’s longing for me in his letters, but they were nothing like sonnets of love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

No awful, awful, despairing longing nowhere I can hear or feel. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Rani sings the names again, and I hear longing in her voice. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As I read aloud it seemed that the poet, longing for his absent love, exactly summed up my own sorrows. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

My heart has been longing so passionately for what you shall steal for me that it has grown quite weary.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

What I did feel was a longing to attack. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I give David one last, longing look. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They speak to me, as John Kwang could always, not simply in new accents or notes but in the ancient untold music of a newcomer’s heart, sonorous with longing and hope. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk from one room to another, breathe through the crack in the window frame, feel my heart beating as if to say, “Fulfill my longing at last...” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe, she thought, it wasn’t longing but fear, and this was his idea of a monster. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The sight of New Pretty Town had once filled her with longing. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

If only she could open her heart to him, Jo thinks as he talks, maybe her “indefinable searching and longing” would be fulfilled. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It’s the strong feelings — empathy, disdain, pity, longing — that envelop them as a result. ‘Steve Jobs’ and the secular ritual of going to the movies 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Everywhere in Istanbul, it seems, there is a longing, a need for change in a country balanced precipitously between East and West, and past and future. Movie Review: ‘Koprudekiler’ (‘Men on the Bridge’), a Drama Set in Istanbul 2012-06-19T22:23:59Z

She went on to study agriculture in Milan, and then settled there with her husband and three children, longing to return south for decades. Discovering the Ruins of Italy’s Ionian Coast 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

You can feel his heartache intensify in tandem with the song's lyrical longing. Why the Outfield’s “Your Love” is the perfect summer song 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z

But Karen's longing to be a mother proved to be stronger than her desire to leave her husband. Karen Carpenter's tragic story 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z

Here are a few ideas that might leave even the most ski-averse travelers longing for a snowy getaway. The Nonskier’s Guide to Ski Towns 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

And the committed actors give us fleeting but deep glimpses of the longings and losses that have brought characters to this outpost — and continue to plague them, allowing them no peace. Satori Group takes you into the wild 2013-03-06T22:26:43Z

What else do Bacon’s relationships, however outré, reveal but wild longing? New ‘Revelations’ in the Life of Francis Bacon, a Master of Darkness and Distortion 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

In these longings our heroes find kinship with anyone who feels captive to misunderstanding, who wants nothing to do with old ways and conventions. Review | At Wolf Trap, a ‘Swan Lake’ with streaks of light 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

But wow, when they start to sing, they are the essence of youthful desire, longing and passion. New York Times Critics Respond to Glyndebourne ‘Fat’ Reviews 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

These nine stories are filled with longing, guilt and violence. ‘Fallout,’ by Sadie Jones, and More 2014-04-23T22:15:31Z

Song after song testifies to pain, loneliness and a longing for refuge. 2010-02-06T00:53:00Z

As it happens, the frustration of precisely such a desire — the unfulfilled longing for clarity and accountability from parents who are also artists — is one of the book’s most powerful guiding emotions. Exploring the Personal Legacy of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

After a few weeks of this, we might actually be longing for some perky, good-natured cheerleaders or vampires to spice things up. Best new fall TV: "Nikita" 2010-09-04T23:01:00Z

“There was a longing for the familiar,” Springsteen had recalled when offering an explanation for returning to his most fruitful creative community. Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

The landscape is bleak, dotted with desperation and longing. New CDs: Tom Waits' 'Bad As Me' 2011-10-25T04:07:04Z

Even at 13, I could sense that Valancy was longing for something more concrete than the wonders of the Muskoka landscape, but the ambiguity of the text thrilled me. Why Missy Foreman-Greenwald of "Big Mouth" is one of the most relatable characters on television 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

The fact that this time never existed doesn’t really matter; the idea of it, and its potential to guide and reform our lives, has fuelled our longings for several generations. The Power of “Grease” 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Slow, sweet and subdued, “A Love Song,” Max Walker-Silverman’s lovely first feature, is about late-life longing and needs that never completely go away. ‘A Love Song’ Review: When Moving Forward Means Looking Back 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The tension between Gartside's appetite for deconstruction and his longing to abandon himself to the wordless joys of pop have nourished and tormented him ever since. Green Gartside: The brainiest man in pop (apart from Brian Eno) 2011-02-22T21:31:10Z

I fear that I will never find what I am longing for. My life in sex: the woman in recovery from sexual abuse 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

And when competitions are this tight, don't you find yourself longing for some kind of taste-a-vision with internet marking? Masterchef: Dhruv Baker is crowned winner. Was he the right choice? 2010-04-08T10:51:00Z

Why not write the novel I was longing to read? The vapor between languages: Idra Novey on writing and translation 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

The appearances of Brandon’s fantasy watchdog lend “Kicks” a hallucinatory gloss, infusing the film with a pathos symbolized by Brandon’s wishful longing for flashy footwear. Review: In ‘Kicks,’ the Promise (and Perils) of Those Air Jordans 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Listen carefully to last year’s “Luciferian Towers” and a wordless message comes through — one of fear and longing and hope and glory. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Her icy facade cracks to reveal a woman of blistering ambition and longing. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 6: Trade Delegation 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

The music often conveys genuine distress, jealousy, longing and more, and the best way to make the comedy come alive is to play the piece straight. Opera Review: Evening of Comic Opera From the Met and Juilliard 2014-02-12T22:23:45Z

Also, you may be longing for something that is hard to define but crucially important to get from your family: a mature recognition of you as an individual, confirmation of their confidence in you. Is my sister after my beau? 2013-06-07T00:00:00Z

It's a street sound, rising and falling, expressive of humanity's most desperate and hopeless longings. Dublin dance festival 2013: Stravinsky Evening – review 2013-05-18T23:05:46Z

Ruth quickly becomes the cynosure of desire – and loathing – for her in-laws, whose atavistic longing takes bizarre twists. An exemplary 'Homecoming' at Pacific Resident Theatre 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Within the decorous, melodic structures, Mr. Duncanson was revealing longings, wounds and accusations. Music Review: Restraint Layered Over Scales of Expression 2010-12-03T01:08:00Z

The final film in his “Men of Power” tetralogy, this is an allegory of power and longing in the form of a head trip, as if Bruegel had made a music video for Richard Strauss. Movie Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:00:08Z

As the sleeve notes for a new CD of the 2010 service put it, this grew from a "longing for the certainties and innocence of childhood". King's College choir: meet the choirmaster 2012-12-19T19:30:01Z

These autobiographical musings open into broader reflections on exile and diasporic longing, making “Mariner of the Mountains” something of an intimate epic — a tale that feels at once personal and eternal. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

After suffering the author’s absence for far too long, we — the witnesses longing for texts like hers, the borderline sacred — can rejoice at her return. After 22 Years, Gayl Jones Returns 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

The author is a psychiatrist in New York City, and she nails her characters and their longings. Book Gift Ideas: Who Needs Wrapping? They’re Already Covered 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

There is a very modified version of it, which will probably be published – people are so longing to see this third volume that even an outline of it will suffice. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z

There is an incredible sense of longing, loss and desire in Warhol’s attachment to the world of culture. Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

We wait for the reckoning, with dread and longing. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Met with mostly cheers, he laughed and added: “You don’t find yourself filled with some kind of emotional longing? Are we emotionally stable?” David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

We are left without an adequate explanation and often without a productive way forward, a way to use our longing for the past as a helpful tool in the present. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z

A: I’ve learned in this process that while this is my American story because I lived it, that longing isn’t unique. Roger Bennett spent his British boyhood fixated on ‘Miami Vice’ and the Chicago Bears — then lived his own American Dream 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

His fiction contains a longing for and a deep understanding of unfamiliar and lost cultures and civilisations, in all their magnificence, brutality, culture and delusions. Amin Maalouf: profile 2011-03-30T11:50:59Z

This allowed the audiences to see, for instance, Romeo and Juliet’s shared bliss and longing in their first pas de deux, and Juliet’s anguish at discovering that Romeo is dead. Beer. Nachos. Arena. Ballet? 2011-06-19T21:57:50Z

“Wigger” satisfies both my daughter’s longing for zigs and zags and my longing for the straightest line possible: the story ends exactly where it begins. William Goldman’s Strange, Sad, Captivating Children’s Book About a Girl and Her Blanket 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The angelic yet longing lyrics from Bannister, "I don't wanna break your heart", are complemented with reflective synths that sound like a soprano choir has recorded the track with them. Explorers – New Band Up North #26 2013-05-13T16:00:01Z

We laughed at Top 40, all those songs about sweetness and longing, and we turned toward college radio, with its songs about drugs and boning. REO Speedwagon will save us 2012-08-08T01:00:00Z

Yet while the banality undercuts the element of the sublime, this artist's work is full of a sense of longing for what's been lost. Artist of the week 116: Tim Gardner 2010-12-02T17:32:00Z

In language both accessible and clear, she chronicles the romantic longings of a generation adrift in a world — quite literally — on fire. Review | Sally Rooney’s latest novel is a lucid, nuanced story about coming of age in a broken world 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

From the moment Sarah appears, tugs of longing and desire after their lengthy separation are as palpable as ever. Review: Two Friends Dance a Wary Tango in ‘Lovesong’ 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Even 15 years later, married with three young children, Belle nurses a longing for the one that got away. ‘Opening Belle’ review: A witty woman leans in on Wall Street 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

A pilgrim just arrived from overseas, struck by the prince’s longing, tells him that the woman of his imagination exists: the countess of Tripoli, who is “beautiful without the arrogance of beauty.” Review: A Newly Relevant ‘L’Amour de Loin’ at the Met 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

It’s a sneaky idea: that women and girls might live healthier lives by honoring their own longings. Review: ‘Stuffed’ Details Fights Women Wage With Their Weight 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

There’s a certain longing in her face, an expression of melancholy. Possessed: Altuzarra?s Inspiration: a Statue of Mary 2011-11-25T22:07:58Z

Knausgaard fears another dark figure will come along to tap our inchoate longing to be part of something greater than ourselves. At the Close of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle,’ a Magician Loses His Touch 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

The mid-nineteenth century was “a period of longing” for a sense of shared identity, Hermand said, because Germanic territories were fragmented into thirty-six separate states. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

If you have been longing to indulge in more refined luggage, now may be the time to spring for something new. The Latest in Luggage: The Bold and the Beautiful 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

They detail longing, desperation, resentment, vulnerability, sorrow and strength, and they can be luminous and harrowing at the same time. 10 Fall Pop and Jazz Albums (and One Festival) You Shouldn’t Miss 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

I had the necessary brain space to dig deeper through my pain and discover both a feeling of disconnection and a longing for companionship and love. Why I quit having sex for a year 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

My teen years felt like a pinball machine where the ball careered constantly between terror and longing, boredom and obsession, freedom and restraint. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

The members of this close-knit family emerge as dynamic characters, flawed but sympathetic, filled with fear and longing, and believable. Sarah Dunant’s ‘Blood & Beauty’: tales of the Borgias 2013-07-11T21:33:10Z

As the movie meanders through beautiful locations, grazing on scenery, flowers and food, it keeps circling back to the essential tension between Liz’s longing for independence and her desire to be loved. | 'Eat Pray Love': Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem in ?Eat Pray Love? 2010-08-12T17:08:00Z

But according to some of those close to the mercurial Irish musician, there are relatively few he’s been longing to work with. Van Morrison on 'Re-Working the Catalogue' with an all-star lineup 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

So much of my childhood was waiting, longing for more and other. Meat Loaf taught me it's OK to have big dreams 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

Soak exposes longings, fears, traumas and resolve — sometimes elliptically, sometimes with disarming bluntness. Review: Soak Exposes Fears and Resolve on Debut Album 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

But these stories are also about the body as an instrument of pleasure, a vessel of longing, a means of communication. ‘Dark Disabled Stories’ Review: When the World Isn’t Built for You 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Still, it is pretty hard to ignore the poem’s graphic descriptions of the longings of the flesh. Biblical birth control: The surprisingly contraception-friendly Old Testament 2014-01-05T19:00:00Z

By the end, it seems to dissipate rather than achieve the piercing sense of longing that so powerfully concludes many of its smaller sections. ‘Underground Fugue’: A tale of mother-daughter love against a backdrop of terror 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

It's wish fulfilment but of the simplest kind: longing for connection, a sort of Nancy Meyers for friends. "Only Murders in the Building" makes me long to reconnect with our elders 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

“I was longing to do that,” she said, laughing in delight. ‘Irma Vep’ Returns, More Meta Than Ever 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

I am left with a myriad of secret longings, which I would, of course, never tell you about. A letter to … my baby's absent father 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

She writes that Daisy shows a “desire for a secure future” — a longing that seems to have struck a chord for Plath. What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Even the most arresting visual stunts would amount to little more than pastiche were it not for Dujardin and Bejo, who infuse their characters with palpable longing and regret. New DVDs | 'The Artist,' 'Mirror Mirror,' '21 Jump Street' 2012-06-25T19:25:04Z

Directed by Jenna Worsham for Lesser America, this is an excursion into the depths of longing, examining the ties that bind too tightly and the connections that are dangerously frayed. Review: In ‘Agnes,’ Familial Ties Bound So Tightly They Fray 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Reese Witherspoon made her memorable debut in “The Man in the Moon,” portraying a 14-year-old who managed to be girlish and playful yet capable of sexual longing and complex emotion. Girls of a Certain Age Challenge Hollywood 2011-06-03T16:57:32Z

In “No Use I Just Do” she struggles with longings she’d rather push away. Hayley Williams, All Alone With Her Memories 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Does it enable you, redeem you, kill you, leave you longing for life, longing for escape? 'Ida,' by Pawel Pawlikowski: A Film Masterpiece 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

What else is the work but a melancholy longing for a time before a bloody massacre? Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Zumthor had talked about the “longing” of spaces to be discovered. The Ascension of Peter Zumthor 2011-03-13T05:00:20Z

This otherwise cheery movie is stingy with the longing glances or lingering touches that might suggest subterranean longing. ‘Single All the Way’ Review: Cookie Cutter Christmas 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

That feel of it, that feeling of longing, of yearning — that comes from this sort of wave of immigrants who are missing their homelands and who couldn't go back. Carolina de Robertis talks about dancing through history with her novel 'The Gods of Tango' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

They sat there, mute with longing; I sat sandwiched in the middle, stealing glances to either side, fascinated by his effect on them. Magic Mike turned me gay! 2012-07-06T13:00:00Z

The holiday window is laden with nostalgia and associations of childhood traditions and a longing for drawn-out moments. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

During the course of the debates, both Catherine and Gwen end up revealing their dissatisfaction with their lives and secret longing for what they gave up - be it career or family. Google maps, free milk: play looks at women having it all 2014-01-29T13:37:31Z

“In Latin America we are bombarded by a longing to belong to our countries and simultaneously be cosmopolitan and international,” he said. Latin American Design and Architecture Through the Years 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Also notable is Amandla Stenberg, playing the resident school activist and moral conscience, who brings an unforced longing to a song about anonymity that she helped write. ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Review: You’ve Got a Friend (Not) 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

It is slight, incidental, a book in which little happens: a cocktail party, some unrequited longing, a bit of humor. Milan Kundera's 'Festival of Insignificance' on being and smallness 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Apparitions signify longing, unresolved business and things left unsaid. Between "Ghosts" to "Not Dead Yet," it's starting to look like TV is having a season full of spirits 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z

He harbors a quiet, unrequited longing for Nalini, the divorced mother of two sons. Akil Kumarasamy’s “Half Gods”: A Début Collection Explores Strife, Trauma, and “a Lifetime Loving Strangers” 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

With his elegantly gliding and soaring images, Ophuls lends an exquisite dignity to unfulfilled longing and criminal passion alike. Richard Brody: Women Onscreen in Two Film-Noir Retrospectives 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Kathleen Supové, a pianist of flamboyantly stagey inclinations, is integral to “Removable Parts,” a heartbreaking work inspired by people longing to become amputees. A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z

Many Muslim immigrants in the West grapple with conflicted identities, she writes, leaving them longing for one extreme or another in the pursuit of certainty. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s ‘Heretic’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

When addressed in the movies, this kind of longing is usually diluted into soap opera and its darker psychological implications suffocated by a gauzy romanticism. Movie Review: ‘A Promise,’ With Alan Rickman and Rebecca Hall 2014-04-18T02:10:27Z

"Only see the truth when I'm staring in the mirror," he raps on "Used To," longing for days past. Mortality, fame hang heavy on Drake's 'If You're Reading This' 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Like many a hero before her, she must defeat a negative force within herself: a longing for conformity, partly based on embarrassment about her Asian-American heritage. Theater Review: In ‘The Wong Kids,’ a Sister and a Brother Turn Superheroes 2014-02-10T20:38:59Z

In that room, at that moment, it seemed not about religion but, as Nabokov said of “Lolita,” about culture, about language—about our longing to remain somehow connected to Russia, to Russian, despite everything. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

Judith Chalmers would read messages of longing and love sent to and from soldiers and airmen in Germany and Cyprus. Family life 2013-04-06T06:15:01Z

Analysis of a woman’s longing feels sutured into our culture lately. How Much Power Do Women Want? A Novel Circles the Question 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Unspoken longings charge the atmosphere of a chilly beach getaway in the elegantly titled “Waiting for the Light to Change,” directed by Linh Tran. ‘Waiting for the Light to Change’ Review: Listless in a Lakeside Cabin 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

For a start, "you find yourself longing for a heroine with a bit more vim who will tell these people to shut up". Books review roundup: The Flamethrowers, Strictly Ann, and Money: The Unauthorised Biography 2013-06-14T15:00:11Z

They use the fizzy electro-pop medium to express feelings of longing for better days. December's best music from across the MAP 2012-12-19T10:00:00Z

LOVE’s tilted “O,” which threatens to fall off the otherwise stable design, implicitly critiqued the often hollow sentimentality associated with the word, metaphorically suggesting unrequited longing and disappointment rather than saccharine affection. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

All that's certain is that her longing, like the locked, robotic groove, will never find release. The best No 1 records: Kylie Minogue – Can't Get You Out of My Head 2012-05-31T20:11:00Z

For someone like me, so guarded yet so longing for connection, it was fraught with peril. I miss playing music 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That is both the premise and the conclusion of “Mother and Child,” Rodrigo Garcia’s dense and thoughtful — if also uneven — drama of maternal anguish and filial longing. | 'Mother and Child': Annette Bening in Rodrigo Garcia?s Study of Motherhood 2010-05-06T23:30:00Z

Gunning's poetic, fragmentary style is perfectly suited to the kind of visual storytelling that draws on memory, text and longing to at once evoke the past and the present. Political, provocative, personal: photography to look forward to 2012-08-16T15:04:43Z

The novel is both a longing ode to the West and a mournful indictment of it. A New Translation of an Anti-Heroic German Doorstopper of 1968 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

I found myself longing for the perversely joyous image of Slim Pickens riding the bucking bombshell at the end of “Dr. Strangelove.” Review: An Immersive ‘Seeing You’ Sends Its Audience to War 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

It can, at times, give you an acute longing – sorrow. John Malkovich: ‘In relationships, I’ve had an addictive personality’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Kate and Leo are hardly the only Hollywood fixtures to get fans longing for wedding bells. Analysis | From Fred and Ginger to Kate and Leo: When movie couples make fans hope for real-life love 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

For Porter’s long lines of longing, Sinatra’s long notes. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

The chorus of the Vienna State Opera is powerfully eloquent in the shining, unaccompanied second-act hymn for the imprisoned Frankish knights longing for their homeland. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The lover in Warhol is shy, as full of longing and time as a woman painted by Vermeer. This Valentine's Day: art with a heart 2013-02-14T12:17:47Z

Both Mr. Trucks and Ms. Tedeschi are a few notches away from their most ferocious here, perhaps the result of too many longing gazes in the studio. The Week Ahead: Oct. 9 ? 15 2011-10-06T15:27:01Z

That’s a fair but shallow description of an instrument that can conjure a lifetime of vulnerability and longing in a few half-swallowed breaths. The Week Ahead: Oct. 24-30 2010-10-24T01:00:00Z

The briefings, in a way, are longings: the president desires unqualified praise, his fans yearn for the free-associating emcee who used to hold court in arenas, viewers want new information and a way forward. It’s 5 o’clock. Do you know where your president is? 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

If time expands in Vermeer's painting of longing, this photograph preserves the fragility of a brief passing joy. This Valentine's Day: art with a heart 2013-02-14T12:17:47Z

Like many teenagers, I was overwrought, vain, insecure, filled with an excruciating longing for exceptional experiences and terrified that I was too ordinary to attract them. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z

While Bretton Woods has done much to offer more diverse terrain, it does not have boundless stashes of untracked powder longing to be discovered by dawn’s early light. In New Hampshire, Can Bretton Woods Get Gnarly? 2011-02-18T19:55:00Z

Her hope is that the pieces will evoke what Klimt called a longing “to be gone like never before.” Escapist, Easygoing Pieces for Unstructured Days 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rabins agrees that challenging times have people longing for a deeper kind of connection. Mushroom Boom: How to Plan a Foraging Adventure on the West Coast 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

The difference between the reality of that and knowing your own personal history, your own desires and longings and humanity. Kehinde Wiley explains his ‘An Economy of Grace’ paintings focusing on black women

The Seattle-based collaborative group Electric Coffin presents a boisterous conglomeration of 2-D and 3-D work with repeating symbols and slogans related to travel, culture-nature fusions and an almost manic sense of fun, longing and loss. Artists at Winston Wächter gallery construct enticing ‘Summer Dreams’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

But I eagerly await the day that both my little ones look at me the way my sister and I used to look at my parents with longing, disappointment and confusion. Motherlode Blog: My Half-Jewish Child Wants Christmas. I Don’t, Anymore. 2013-12-18T18:59:21Z

The account was written at a time when the threat of a European war created an uncertainty and deep suspicion of change that sharpened the longing for the British countryside. Summer voyages: In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas 2013-07-25T17:07:19Z

I basically wake up longing for the moment when at the end of the day will go back to bed! 'Out of nowhere I felt really sad': readers on how they felt at 47 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad. Q&A with Rango Director Gore Verbinski 2011-03-04T16:50:00Z

“Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3” and others give us both the Russian and the Western European aspects of this composer; they also show us both the artist of intensely Romantic longing and the Mozartian classicist. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z

I think she took that longing for a safe, secure, loving family and did the extreme. "Flowers in the Attic" writer on "The Origin" ending, whose story needs telling and that swan bed 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Still, if longing is, in some sense, what motivates "The Odd Woman and the City," the book builds to its own measure of acceptance, as well. Ghosts emerge in Vivian Gornick's memoir 'The Odd Woman and the City' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

But because my longing for theater is such a big part of my life, I’ve been really enjoying reading about theater. Working in TV, Jen Silverman Wrote a Novel. About Theater. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

I am given to unnecessary nostalgia, the longing for what isn't there. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: my new novel is about love, race... and hair 2013-04-06T23:05:05Z

The songs on the album dealt with "longing, sadness, solitude, anger, and pain," as Amy Lee said in a Rock Sound interview. Bring me to life: Evanescence helped me find my trans voice 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

“Fashion has overdone nostalgia in an attempt to cash in on your impossible longing for a perfect you and perfect time, that doesn’t exist now and actually never did.” What We Saw at London Fashion Week Men’s 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Yet it’s advice that you can feel all the people onstage longing to heed, not just the atomistic characters in this mosaic of urban lives, but also the performers portraying them. Review: ‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

The narratives differ in tone, setting and style, but their protagonists share a longing for truth and stability in turbulent homes where secrets and lies abound. Two Novels, United by Troubled Daughters of Damaged Fathers 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Landau’s installation depicts the “cyclical forces of decay” and a “society longing for redemption,” to quote the program notes. Music Review: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at Roulette 2012-01-25T00:10:49Z

Sex and longing, too, are among this poet’s primal subjects. 'Slant Six,' Erin Belieu’s Latest Poetry Collection 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

But watching last night’s tepid “MasterChef Jr.” season three premiere, I found myself longing for the drama and frisson that an injection of parental energy would reliably provide.  The hilarious bougieness of “MasterChef Jr.”: Why this season should show us more parents 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

At the heart of Mamoon's statement is less conservatism than an odd form of nostalgia, a longing for a world with values, for better and for worse, that one can stand for or against. Hanif Kureishi's 'The Last Word' lacks a certain sense of voice 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Desire, longing and taboo all converge here, as the teacher reflects on the encounters and relationships that shaped him. 10 Books to Watch For in January 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

This worry is palpable in Ms. Shetterly’s book, together with a longing for a world that can withstand the complexity and flux of our current society. ‘Seaweed Chronicles’ Review: A Fragile World at the Water’s Edge 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Every bit of longing and heartache and joy and transcendence and spirituality is all in the music. “It’s not the MSNBC, Fox BS — f*** this red/blue paradigm: John Cusack unloads on the media, the right and corporate Democrats 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The British rock critic Rob Young’s excellent new book, “Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music,” is a response of sorts to Mr. Marcus’s volume, and to Krim’s longing for a raw-boned alternative America. Books of The Times: Primordial Soup, a Musical Brew 2011-05-12T22:00:06Z

What seems to unite Josh, Dena and Harmon — and to cause Josh particular anguish — is the longing to find some other way to live. ‘Night Moves’ Tracks Three Eco-Terrorists in Oregon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

There’s a deep longing, especially in postwar America at the time, of thinking: “Can things be fixed? Are we going to be OK? Is the family going to stay together?” With ‘Lucy and Desi,’ Amy Poehler Gets to the Heart of a Marriage 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

It’s a superb sequence, a nod to Strauss that has a sweet longing all its own. Review: In ‘The Hours,’ Prima Donnas and Emotions Soar 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

At one Charleston property that Bartlam is known to have used, now a private home, he said, “We look through the fence with great longing.” A Rich Lode of American Ceramics Discoveries 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

“I’m from Missouri and have no desire to return, so this longing is not simply Midwestern,” Mr. Herschend said. With New Triennial, Cleveland Hopes to Become the Next Venice 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

As with so much confessional poetry, old or new, the eternal themes are love, longing, loneliness and loss. Review | At last, we hear the beautiful — and sometimes bawdy — Persian poems by women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

I was pierced with a great tenderness for my life, the interconnected world, this man I hardly knew—and a deep longing. My date with a 1985 Chateau d’Yquem 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

As the sun beat down on his dark suit, he kept casting longing looks toward the empty swimming pool. Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers Is Being Tended Once Again 2012-07-19T21:45:31Z

But Alché, who is also an accomplished photographer, brings her own arresting visual sensibility to this story of grief, longing and memory. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

The vision of failure and calamity nonetheless yields its own compensations, of bonds re-forged through the ravages of exhaustion and defeat, suggesting a longing for comfortable normalcy. Jacques Rivette’s Thirteen-Hour Experimental Film 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

“The wind graces this park / Like a breezy whisper / as sounds of longing / echo from the nearby piano,” one parkgoer scribbled on a piece of lined paper that they then left in the nightstand. A park ranger set a nightstand in a park. People filled it with poetry. 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Sometimes it looks like resignation, or maybe weariness, or longing. The Palmy Days of a South Beach Shtetl 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

"Guitars and Microphones" remedies that and does so in a way that prompts longing for albums never recorded. Essential tracks: Kate Pierson makes up lost time with 'Guitars' 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

“I was trying to understand Susan as somebody who found herself in a reality where she felt a bit trapped and was longing for some kind of freedom,” Sharpe said in a recent video interview. In ‘Landscapers,’ True Crime Meets Hollywood Fantasy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

But this newfound element of our national nostalgia — our longing for the pre-pandemic past — seems different somehow. A Nostalgic Look at Independence Days of Yesteryear 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

He crooned his way through such passages in Ligeti’s Sonata for Solo Cello with a moaning, longing sound on the distinctive pizzicato-glissando sighs and sweet cantillation reminiscent of folk music. Review | Hungarian cellist is upstaged by a centuries-old Strad 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Kyle Abraham’s company A.I.M. occupies the temporary stage from Saturday to Monday with “Dearest Home,” which he calls a meditation on “love, longing and loss.” 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

The longing of the women they left behind suffuses the third movement, set to Nina Simone’s “My Man’s Gone Now.” Review: Finding the Beat and Pulse of the Great Migration 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

I was longing for a cleaner, leaner sound, and I eventually found that in Toscanini. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

On the left screen, a Hmong woman from Laos — a family friend of Ms. Her’s — stands in a green field in northern Minnesota, singing in Hmong about longing for her home country. A Minnesota Exhibit Framed Around Longing for Home 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Callaway used to specialize in ballads of romantic longing and heartbreak. Review: Ann Hampton Callaway Honors Her Predecessors at Feinstein’s/54 Below 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

That was what I was longing for, just to write at full speed. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

Its music is a continuous stream of melancholy longing. Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Many poems feature deeply moving narratives about family traumas, loss and illness, the frailties of the body, and the longing for a divine presence. Wise love poems by Mary Oliver, and two other new collections 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Now, you not only hear longing but pain. Review: ‘Whitney,’ a Pop Music Tragedy, Is Sad, Strange and Dismaying 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Her version of “Lover Man,” treated as an extended sigh of dreamy longing propelled by subtle jazz phrasing, balanced tenderness and sensuality in a rendition that challenged Billie Holiday’s matchless original in beauty and honesty. Music Review: Barbara Cook at 54 Below 2013-04-25T21:52:39Z

But after hearing “Unknown,” these old songs — some beloved, some forgotten, all steeped in longing and loss — seem very much of a piece with Okpebholo and Amaker’s project. In ‘Unknown,’ a composer and a poet offer new perspectives on war and 100 years of soldiers with names lost to time 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

“She dressed every day as though she was going to be discovered. That’s what she was longing for in life, that missed opportunity. So the animal imagery helped with that.” Clothes and Character: 'Annie' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Wright's music established a mood of timid hope, accompanying Morgan's lyrics, which rhymed "Shoobert" with a line about longing for a future with "you, Bert". Geoffrey Wright obituary 2010-12-07T18:28:00Z

This juxtaposition of the exotic and the banal — and the evidence of sad human longings within it — is clearly meant to elicit strong emotions for the audience. Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

As the movie’s title announces, these are suffused with longing. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Desire, Once Upon a Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Increasingly, Kenyan country singers are writing their own music about love and longing, in an American twang. Country Music Finds a Home Far From Home, in Kenya 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Jack asks, of his brother and God, and the scale of his longing demands a cosmic response. | 'The Tree of Life': Heaven, Texas and the Cosmic Whodunit 2011-05-26T16:50:46Z

Instead of longing for the past, we should embrace the present. Sour cream is the secret weapon in this five-ingredient potato salad 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z

It quickly becomes difficult not to long for the terrible finale and just as difficult not to hate yourself for longing for it. Masada in CBS' 'The Dovekeepers': Bad storytelling in every way 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The song doesn’t decide whether to stay footloose or settle down; it lingers between restlessness and longing. Gregg Allman: A Voice of the South Who Mixed a Musical Melting Pot 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

Computer science is an art form of words and punctuation, thoughtfully placed and goal-oriented, even if not necessarily deployed to evoke surprise or longing. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

But it also captures the romantic, ecstatic longing that unites the musicians with one another and with their admirers. Movie Review: ?Tonight You?re Mine,? Directed by David Mackenzie 2012-05-10T23:01:42Z

This isn’t entirely his fault, since this production dispenses with the moody solo and much of the Act II business that usually establishes the Prince’s existential aloneness and intangible longing for his ideal woman. Dance Review: ?The Sleeping Beauty? From American Ballet Theater 2010-06-15T22:47:00Z

The ticks, glitches and muffled drumbeats of DJ Python’s production mirror the insistent longing Ela Minus sings about in “Kiss You.” 7 Songs We Nearly Missed in 2022 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Lula’s sweet and mere mortal boyfriend, Maks, dumps her, leaving her longing to find a way to restore things between them to how they’ve always been. Dark Magic and Other Escapes in These Summer Y.A. Novels 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Our culture needs to make space for young girls, as well as young boys, to safely explore their maturing bodies and initial erotic longings. My bad sex wasn’t rape 2013-03-22T23:00:00Z

Only the wayward appreciated this girl’s riotous conduct and wild habits—her longing to create a life from nothing. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

In this stunning and compassionate drama about loyalty, longing and a sensationally dysfunctional family, Dublin police Detective Frank Mackey is forced to return home when the body of his sweetheart, missing for decades, turns up. 14 best crime novels of 2010: Tana French, John le Carr? and more 2010-12-08T23:57:00Z

“My songs, usually in the Gaelic language, are songs of love, loss and longing; they’re really our blues.” Ambassador Spurs an Irish-American Cultural Exchange 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

I was a recent college graduate recovering from a breakup, longing to be with someone who didn’t want to commit to me. Trying to Feel Love-Worthy (While Working for a Dating App) 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

She lived a century ago, half-Mexican, half-native, with the knowledge of traditional herbs and nature, the apparent ability to heal with her hands and an abiding longing for justice, but she was flawed. Urrea's 'Queen of America': Teresita returns 2011-12-02T18:38:04Z

Our longing for Christmas nostalgia is centuries old. The music that makes Christmas 2010-12-16T23:30:00Z

It’s infused with a longing to get back the time you wasted being embarrassed by your parents. Julie Buntin’s ‘Marlena’ is a gritty coming-of-age story about a troubled friendship 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

I don’t want to reveal too much, except to note Diop’s daring use of music and simple visual effects to orchestrate a complex mood of longing, desperation and anger. ‘Atlantics’ Review: Haunted by Ghosts and Injustice in Senegal 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Backward over the years I rolled, remembering, longing ... until suddenly, I was overcome by a memory of being in a pram myself — is that possible, my critical grown-up self chided? Personal Journeys: Mother and Sons, on the Same Track 2011-06-03T18:55:00Z

After the sugar high ends, and after the chemical party in your mouth subsides, you might just find yourself longing for a poached pear — comparatively pretentious, but perfect as is, and thoroughly knowable. ‘Milk Bar Life,’ reviewed: guilty pleasures, sweet and savory alike 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

But the heart of Kyle’s play is about a father’s longing for his lost child. ‘Spacebar,’ a Play About a Play, by Michael Mitnick 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Serpell engaged this lineage not to provoke, she said, but to find a way into the porousness, and contradiction, of human longing. A Sibling Disappears, and the Mystery Repeats Itself 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z

She is longing for life in the big city, but what life does she imagine? "Does trauma-bonding negate the love?": Stars Erin Moriarty and Jai Courtney talk "Catching Dust" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

She’s the genuine article—a doomed, spectral torch singer, incandescent with longing, desire, and grief. Listen to Carla Morrison 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

For Shapiro, the staring and snooping and seeking, the yellow hair and blue eyes, and a keen yet ill-defined longing were the signs hiding in plain sight that she was somehow not of her family. 23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Clarkson's, the least consummated of the three, is quieter, told in longing, wistful glances captured as doors close. At SIFF: A tale of three actresses 2010-05-26T17:03:00Z

Throughout this show, Creed's appetite for lumpen reality collides with a longing for harmony, the harmony of the musical scale. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z

Mr. Bomer is charming as a character who is energized by both longing and a charisma that seems genetic. July 11 ? 17 2010-07-09T22:44:00Z

Their mixed-race daughter becomes the “Miss Burma” of the title, and the novel addresses themes of identity, longing and trust over nearly 40 years of Burmese history. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

If you are ever longing for a sorcerous way to improve the picture on your driver’s license, he is definitely the magician to call. Sleights of Hand With Cards, Coins and a Colander 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

But unlike “Familiar,” no one in “The Profane” is longing to return to the old country. Review: Zayd Dohrn Plumbs Muslim-American Rifts in ‘The Profane’ 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pareles wrote that Orbison moved between two styles, “up-tempo rockabilly songs like ‘Oh, Pretty Woman,’ which he also wrote, and dramatic ballads of isolation and longing, including ‘Only the Lonely’ and ‘Blue Bayou.'” Music Match: If You Like Roy Orbison . . . 2012-09-25T22:27:52Z

The feel of these songs was reminiscent of both Muslim calls to prayer and flamenco ballads of passion and longing. Dance Review: A Moroccan Tradition in Full Cry 2010-09-23T22:05:00Z

Another Renaissance artist who had a feel for mountains was Titian – in his paintings the blue shadows of Alpine foothills are seen with acute longing and love. The magic of mountains in art 2011-02-08T10:54:44Z

A multipart mini rock opera, the song traces the story of a rock band's longing for the sweet release of freedom and escape. How Paul McCartney proved Wings haters wrong with "Band on the Run" 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

As soon as borders reopen, this longing will lead to a rush to travel again. Long-distance couples are used to being apart — but not like this 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

There is an intimate sense of longing that is interlaced within the fabric her work: a desire to feel, to experience, and to find oneself, which makes her performances so captivating. Ethereal, evocative, and inventive: why the music of Kate Bush spans generations 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

The script hints at some depth by examining our innate longing to have loved ones return, but this is soon shunted aside. Life After Beth first look review – fun zombie premise is dead on arrival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

It “is a primal union of animal longing.” Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Filled with visual echoes and wordless longing, it is almost Escher-like in its simple complexity, proving the truth of Elizabeth's thesis by making the silences almost as eloquent as the words that fill it. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-28T07:30:00Z

Delivered by Mr. Nakayama in a plaintive cry as he accompanies himself on guitar, his ballad “Horses” distills the inchoate longings of these likable characters more effectively than any spoken words. Movie Review: ‘Touchy Feely’ Explores Family Emotions 2013-09-05T22:05:20Z

We stared in somewhat stupefied awe at toy trains chugging around sugar-snow-dusted mini-Swiss Alps under flying Santa sleighs and traded longings. Holiday Windows Aren’t Over. Neither, They Say, Is New York. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

“Pray You Catch Me” is one of two collaborations with the British songwriter James Blake: slow-motion ballads of suspicion and longing. Review: Beyoncé Makes ‘Lemonade’ Out of Marital Strife 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

“The global zeitgeist always effects fashion and for me this longing for a hopeful spring translates into somewhat classic, relaxed clothes but clothes that make me smile.” Analysis | Returning to the office means wearing fancy clothes again. Or at least nicer leggings. 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Astroworld” is a party record by most any metric, but it’s also suffused with an odd, nameless longing. The Ten Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Shared on dating apps or in texts, it has been sent to create longing and a sense of intimacy: a missive of lust and promise to lovers, or would-be lovers, who are separated. The Selfie That Dares to Go There 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Eliza Bent is Karla Angelica, the sullen, silent one, who lurks on the sidelines with a gaze of both judgment and longing. Tina Satter’s ‘Ancient Lives’ Is at the Kitchen 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Again, not a problem for a record producer longing for the gig, but if you're a celebrity who records albums and tours, it's a serious investment. Seven reasons Fox hasn't signed an "Idol" judge 2010-08-12T05:26:00Z

Ms. Roberts doesn’t need to swallow a picture whole with her smile to have an impact: just the sight of her inspires a certain longing. 2010-02-11T23:01:00Z

That’s the deepest longing of any cultural outsider, and like many such outsiders, Igort is particularly attached to the aspects of the country that are gone or vanishing. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

That is what happens when your lust is only a thin covering over a deeper, global longing that you don’t even know you have until after it’s driven you crazy. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

His songs, written with various collaborators, ponder longing, separation, memory and music, particularly lullabies. New Albums From Jesse Winchester, Lia Ices and Others 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

“He loved these women, not as muses but as beings who answered to the longings and anguish of his inner life,” O’Brien said. In ‘Joyce’s Women,’ 2 Great Irish Writers Square Up 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

Citing a “longing to get back into imagination,” she recently embarked on a series of very large-scale paintings on paper and canvas — jumbles of monsters, men and beasts with no discernible real-world reference. Jacqueline de Jong Paints It All 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Wiman, a former editor of Poetry magazine, asks crucial questions, such as: Is artistic hunger a longing for God? Review | Ursula K. Le Guin’s final poems and other best collections to read this month 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

The lyrics in songs like “I Was Never in New York” and “My Brother Is a Painter” told of longing for other places and a different life. Udo Jürgens, Austrian Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 80 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Disastrously, her dormant maternal feelings — mingling with erotic longings — are awakened by her tenant’s teenage son. The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Englander’s trademark humor is on display, but most striking and moving about “Kaddish.com” is the unabashed sweetness of a son’s longing for a father, “who saw his true nature, loving Larry for exactly who he was.” ‘Like a JDate for the Dead’ 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

Ms. Maggart, an Algonquin regular, is 36, but the feeling she projected was the dreamy, inchoate longing of a 12-year-old girl poring over a book of fairy tales. Music Review: She?s Young, Restless and a Bit Dreamy 2011-02-20T22:54:19Z

Poets are impoverished outsiders; poetry derives from longing, not fulfilment. In praise of ? impoverished poets 2011-07-27T22:03:34Z

But as Kazin shows us, the more you zoom in on the details, the further away everything else feels, and longing ensues. Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

There is so much longing in "A League of Their Own." Why "A League of Their Own" goes over the rainbow 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

The song's longing and melancholy feel more acute, the equivalent of what it feels like to be outside on a bitterly cold day. The solace of Joni Mitchell's "River," a holiday song that defies merry and bright expectations 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

“This virus that was intertwined with our essential human longing for sex and love, and with being outlawed, shamed and persecuted.” A Personal Fight for the Dignity of L.G.B.T. People in India 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Others seem to be looking across the border with longing and sympathy in response to recent world events. O Canada! What Should I Read? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

In the solo climaxes that conclude the show’s two acts, Ms. Staunton lets loose with the full power of years of unsatisfied longing. London Theater Journal: A Scorching Momma Rose 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Courtenay, a naturally demonstrative actor, registers a convincing blend of longing, confusion and shame. Review: In ‘45 Years,’ a Dead Flame Threatens a Marriage 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Such rare insights arise all through “The Incendiaries,” which is full of longing and muffled agony. Review | ‘The Incendiaries’ is the most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Song said that in this scene, she wanted to keep both the characters and the audience in a state of longing and happiness. Watch an Emotional Reunion in ‘Past Lives’ 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

These are the show’s only pastiche numbers, with Ms. Tesori using slick, prepackaged forms to suggest a child’s wistful longings for a tidy, happy existence that real life can never match. Review: ‘Fun Home’ at the Circle in the Square Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

As it is, Mr Greenwell offers a tender portrait of the longing for connection and acceptance that inhabits us all, gay or straight. Come as you are 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

But once Renata crawls out from under his bed, tormented by fear and longing, and asks for his protection, he begins to enact a series of hallucinatory fantasies: rock star, ghostbuster, occultist. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

This track showcases their ability to create a strong sense of beautiful longing. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z

A longing viola motif, as of a hand reaching tentatively toward the sky, evokes Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time.” Review: At Rothko Chapel, a Composer Is Haunted by a Hero 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

For all its fashionable mid-30s pacifism, in watching it you realise with horror that you're entering Capra's deepest longings: a world of sexless purity and white horses, where wisdom lisps from a toothless High Lama. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z

Preserving a valued friendship can be incentive enough for even bold and persistent admirers to set their longings aside. Carolyn Hax: After years of caring for a child, it’s her right to return to her career 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

The dance aims to capture the age-old plight of lovers across time and place whose relationships violate social norms, and whose lust is replaced by longing after forced separation. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

“Whatever thoughts, feelings and longings they had in themselves could be played out in a band — and in front of an entire arena full of people,” Mr. Cooper said. The Gay Architects of Classic Rock 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

Adele reigns atop the Billboard charts, singing her tales of longing and woe. On New Podcasts, the Sound of Falling in Love 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

But listening to his swirling, sensual, hypnotic voice, and the slurring words of wistful longing, you slowly begin to engage with the world once more. Old music: John Martyn ? Sweet Little Mystery 2012-02-10T09:00:00Z

Defying her mother and stepfather, longing for a life of books and art, she tells them that "I would die if my life turned out as boring and narrow" as theirs. Clever Girl by Tessa Hadley – review 2013-05-01T11:00:02Z

It taps into a universal longing — to make things right. Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z

Every time I think about “Ordinary Days,” Adam Gwon’s chamber musical about four New Yorkers longing for meaningful connection, Stephen Sondheim’s song “Another Hundred People” starts playing in my head. Review: In ‘Ordinary Days,’ a Sweet Escape to the Recent Past 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

But is the solstice only about longing for light? Winter solstice art: the dark night rises 2012-12-21T14:18:28Z

Unlike authors of most contemporary cultural trauma narratives, So doesn’t linger in a diasporic longing, the need to excavate one’s family’s past, mining it for meaning in the present. Review | Anthony Veasna So’s ‘Afterparties’ is a bittersweet testament to the late author’s talents 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

And a melody line almost embarrassingly languorous and lovely and filled with longing. Top 10 Tunes You Think You Know (But Really Don?t) 2011-11-16T10:00:23Z

It is a morbid glow; indeed, Scottie’s unrealizable longing will cause Judy’s death. ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Its briny, garlicky flavor evokes superlatives while the crust inspires longing. Grilled pizza revelations

This book is thick with longing for old times, terrible though they might have been. Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

The opening show, on view until April 11, takes dreaming and longing as its theme. New York’s Newest Private Museum Is Tucked Away in Brooklyn 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

As he and his strait-laced new roommate slowly fall for each other, Josh offers up what may be the most quintessentially romance-hero line I’ve ever seen: “His capacity for longing terrified him.” Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. McIntyre, on the other hand, was guided by what she calls “longing to be another instrument in the ensemble.” Review: Creating Contrasts With yMusic, Marcos Balter and Dance 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

But you can't help but wonder what a musical world would sound like, in which all the inchoate longing of preteen girl lust was channelled into learning how to play guitar. Justin Bieber and Katy Perry live 2011-03-20T00:05:30Z

The second season does all that while incorporates the lovely longing intrinsic to Italian neorealism; it drifted, but never stalled. "Master of None" returns for an unexpected third season with "Moments in Love" 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z

Her mum and dad loved her songs, even the ripe ones about adolescent sexual longing. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

“Cleverly, the show shows you what the drug does — it shows the longing and the mystery,” Cusack said. Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

And you are always conscious, as you must be, of the combustible chemistry generated by this combination of distinctive, separate personalities longing to cohere into a whole. Review: Paging Pablo Escobar in ‘Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

His lovingly made doll clothes have also convinced her that he was just expressing pent-up longing for normal human relationships. A Naturalist’s Notes on London; Bettie Page Photos 2012-08-10T04:47:10Z

The first single, "Two Weeks," is the most beguiling, a crawling, expansive work of longing featuring bass-wobbles and skittering synthetic high-hats that pan from left to right and back again. FKA twigs takes a leap with charismatic 'LP1' 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z

It’s a decision Bell finds gives the film a hopeful message: “She could have made a lot more money, but she prioritized her health and her spiritual longings over fame and success.” How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Bland conversations about love and longing, and a mostly sunny tone, neuter potential conflict in a movie that neither promotes nor disparages arranged marriage. Review: ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It?’ Probably a Lot 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z

The lute suggests self-absorption, the letter suggests longing, the maid standing nearby suggests surprise and the physical space suggests the usual luminescent cocoon of Vermeer’s best interiors. Review | Ten Vermeers, but a whole world of Dutch art 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

But this is certainly not the claustrophobic longing for green space, an apartment with a balcony or even a fire escape. The horror of Netflix's COVID "Bubble" is that celebrities – they're not just like us 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

The focus of the concert was his voice and its variations on longing; he delivered “My Funny Valentine” as a tragedy with sweeping crescendos, even as he added some octavewide leaps to the melody. Sam Smith’s Sold-Out Show at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Eventually, Vilma and Yeisvi are reunited after 246 days in a scene Kent captures for all its primal emotional weight – sobbing, terror and longing melting into relief outside an airport coffee shop. 'A defining story of our time': the film-maker giving a face to family separation 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

All are about love, loss, longing and desire, and the ineradicable human will to survive all. A Pina Bausch Revival at Tanztheater Wuppertal 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Petrosino finds a language for longing that captures how it’s holy and transcendent and crippling all at once. Leslie Jamison on the Best Book She Ever Got as a Present 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

No empty hours in which to find boredom, or to wallow in longing or anxiety. My Favorite Vacation: Summer Camp 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The Nazis used a rhetoric of holistic fantasy — catering, as Ms. Kort observes, quoting the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich, to “the masses’ ‘unsatisfied orgasmic longing’ ” — to galvanize the population around Hitler’s hysterical, millenarian leadership. Art Review: A Perverse Mind Populated by Devils, Snakes and Buxom Nudes 2011-03-31T22:27:26Z

Gazing into the mirror, he notices the heavy bags under his eyes and his sagging chin and is seized with a longing for his lost youth. Movie Review: ?The Salt of Life,? a Comedy by Gianni Di Gregorio 2012-03-02T00:28:51Z

I followed a longing that had been calling me all through adolescence, college and into adulthood. Modern Love: Newly Wed and Quickly Unraveling - Modern Love 2012-07-26T21:46:18Z

No one is stopping you from flying a Confederate flag on your private property or longing for one. Why Can’t I Appreciate the Confederate Flag and Also Condemn Racism? 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a dramatic metaphor for the human condition, with its incongruous marriage of spiritual longing and all too mortal flesh. TEFAF New York: A Worldly Fair Overflows With Art and Design 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

And while I still dreamed of those horizons and grasslands, I wondered whether my longing to carry on the family legacy was folly. Young Farmers Conference at Stone Barns Center 2013-01-03T22:25:03Z

Still, I think, it’d be nice to have a letter, something to hold in my hands, something more tangible than longing and regret. The only way to love a married woman 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a generous album — 17 songs — that rolls along smoothly for nearly an hour, one leisurely midtempo groove after another, while Khalid’s voice conveys far more longing than agitation. Khalid Has Fresh Insecurities and a New Set of Musical Tricks on ‘Free Spirit’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Stravinsky’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” suited Mr. Heras-Casado’s ear and style much better, and he found an ideal tension between sharp, acerbic bite and a more sultry longing. Review: Orchestras Large and Small and a Composer Portrait 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

“There’s always an aspect of longing in her work.” Liz Goldwyn, Hollywood Royal Family Member, Takes to Filmmaking 2014-01-12T02:48:43Z

A faceless account of the Third Symphony fogged its lucid textures, and despite lean, longing playing from the strings, the single-movement Seventh never gained much momentum. Music Review: Jan Lisiecki Makes Debut With New York Philharmonic 2012-12-14T22:19:09Z

In the album’s eight leisurely songs, Orton sings about longings, memories, nature, attachments and separations, about overwhelming sensations and uncertain prospects. How a Sooty Old Piano Helped Beth Orton Reach a New Creative Peak 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

And I don't know if it was sort of my own hopes for my kids, my own longing for something I didn't have, but that was interesting to write about. "Big Summer" author Jennifer Weiner: We all deserve pleasure amidst our quarantine soap opera 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

Pearl, longing to belong, quickly becomes a fixture in the Richardsons’ home, entangling her mother along with her. In a Quiet Ohio Town, Who Started the Fire, and Why? 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

She sings about pop’s eternal topics as a young woman caught up in them: love and lust, intimacy and betrayal, longing and loneliness and tentative trust. Camila Cabello and Harry Styles, Teen-Pop Alumni, Think Bigger 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

"We shouldn't be longing for the good old days." 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z

But it did stir a deep longing in her. How acclaimed Chicago chef Iliana Regan found her bliss in the woods 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

As usual, Stevens conjures meanings where memories, faith, history, dreams and longing overlap. Sufjan Stevens’s Cry of Despair and Prayer for Redemption 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

"Fishbowl" ranges from songs about Alzheimer's disease to tunes about deep longing. Kenny Chesney finds meaning in his "Fishbowl" 2012-06-27T20:25:28Z

That, paired with my longing for a community of common belief, led me to begin searching for an organized community of nontheists. Toxic atheism drives people apart 2012-10-21T16:00:00Z

By the end, you may find yourself longing for Classical Theater of Harlem to tackle Dumas’s two sequels next. Review: Bang! Pow! A ‘Three Musketeers’ Summertime Romp 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

I find myself in agreement with that musical’s fairy-tale princes, in exaggerated longing for the unattainable — in their case, damsels in distress. Perspective | Play It Again | These songs from musicals changed my life. Now they can sustain me. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

Running just over a half-hour, it takes on big themes including environmental collapse, the burden for future generations and the primal longing for closeness after our global separation. The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

Dr. Ling mentioned a period of creative malaise for Mr. Winick when he was writing comics for Marvel and DC, but he was longing to get back to his cartoonist roots. Out of ‘The Real World,’ a Relationship That Has Endured 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

There is, I think, a low-level longing, in this era of atomization and instability, for that kind of kinship. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Where love was all about longing, not belonging. He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

This longing for marriage, she speculates, is the psychological cause of the chronic cold that makes her so adorably sneezy and adenoidal. 'Guys and Dolls' at the Wallis: Pared down but still full of punch 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Far from what he knew, he sought ways to muffle a sense of longing. My dad puts turmeric in his risotto — and now I do too 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

There, I would take one whiff of a garment and reunite it with its longing owner. I’m blind – but it can be a blessing in disguise 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

It has sharpened my longing for you & our sweet & peaceful home. Liveright to Publish Nelson Mandela’s Letters From Prison 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Spirals always begin and end with longing, and this is true throughout “Real Life.” Jeremy O. Harris: Brandon Taylor ‘Subjugates Us With the Deft Hand of a Dom’ 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

The women, who are there through the longing of the pilots. Reading group: Wind, Sand and Stars – brilliantly uplifting 2012-11-09T15:57:26Z

Fantasies of love or lust open her up to violent visions of volcanoes, unrest and a hail of bullets, but all these disasters are outstripped by her longing. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

You can feel Pierson’s longing to push past the walls of his apartment. Caught between silence and clamor, these musicians find connection in birdsong 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

And also, of course, shot through with longing, ennui and existential anguish. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z

One answer may be to address each other one to one, with urgency and consideration, about the things that matter: love, loss, longing, family, our doubts and our desires. The art of public correspondence 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

And that kind of restraint also, like physically and during preparation, I think, built a kind of love and longing for the other, for the other for your scene partner. "Connected through inyeon": Teo Yoo reflects on the fate that guided his career and to "Past Lives" 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

The mostly young and little-known cast is a conglomeration of Feigean misfits engaged in sibling rivalry, romantic longings and institutional satire, with the added component of physics as farce. Q&A: Paul Feig on 'Other Space' and the comedy of close quarters 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

This is a romance full of longing and nostalgia that is also a compelling mystery. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels of the month 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

“Somebody out there is longing for those characters and those story lines.” Master of None's Lena Waithe: 'If you come from a poor background, TV becomes what you dream about' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

But the music, given appropriately liquid life by a sextet overseen by Or Matias, swirls and eddies with a profound ache of longing — for freedom, for sympathy, for solitude. Review: In ‘First Daughter Suite’: Unelected but Still Under a Microscope 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

For most of the set, the three sang about separation and longing: songs like Utah Phillips’s “I Think of You,” Gillian Welch’s “One Hundred Miles” and Ms. Watkins’s own “You and Me.” Review: I’m With Her, Three Americana Virtuosos 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Multiply the intensity of that longing by seven to imagine the sort of withdrawal that has been afflicting the music industry for nearly a decade. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

David Bradley's Andy is all spleen and scatalogical anger concealing an apprehension of death and a deep, unappeasable longing to see his sons. Review 2011-04-12T23:37:43Z

The image of longing, in the form of reaching arms, was a frequent sight, but the dead-serious faces of the dancers made such actions mundane. Dance Review: Resistance and Desire, With a Little Mud Wrestling 2011-05-15T21:34:05Z

It not only addressed a very specific immigrant experience but also explored universal themes of longing and regret. 'Beautiful Maria of My Soul': Oscar Hijuelos plumbs the story of 'Mambo Kings' ' beloved Maria 2010-06-23T23:37:00Z

The theorbo had a vigorous but rather brief life in the 17th and 18th centuries, and its electrified descendant proved to be­ ­capable of both heart-throbbing pathos and modest, folksy longing. Composer Aaron Grad shares his ‘Old-Fashioned Love Songs’ at the Mansion at Strathmore

Does the promised devil-may-care mashup of longing and frustration suddenly sound like a bad bargain? Who says “Life Sucks”? Chekhov, through Posner, at Theater J 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The palpable longing Frankie has for wanting to be his true self in a world that may not understand him gives Dickinson’s performance indelibility and his career as an actor, promise. “My idea of romance is tailor-made pleasure.”: Harris Dickinson on being sexy but not romanti... 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

“His heart was a library of longings, his mind a hive of buzzing trivia.” International Fiction: Summer’s in High Gear and So Are the Cities 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

“Divine” is a two-parter of longing and leering: trance arpeggios and a female voice are suddenly exchanged for distorted guitar as he cackles, “Can I lick your ice cream?” Playlist: Falling in Love, Longing and Leering 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

But nor is she quite at home with her life as it is; and a kind of weariness, a build-up of "amorphous longings, shapeless desires" has led her to this point of departure. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – review 2013-04-11T08:01:01Z

“Territorio” is a taut, taciturn drama where little is said out loud, but much transpires in gazes heavy with longing and menace. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

As a child, she’d watch boats, longing to become one herself. Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

But racked with longing and jealousy, her former lover angrily threatens the new husband with death “during the happiest hour of your life!” Review | Looking for a seasonal tale of mystery, murder and ghosts? Here are 9 books just for you. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

When the velocity and direction of two people’s longings so wildly diverge? A Dazzling, Sweetly Aching New Novel From Jacqueline Woodson 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

In a piercingly tender scene, Zuckerman, now seventy-one and overcome with impossible longing for a younger woman himself, goes to visit the elderly Amy. The Erotic Truths of “Scary Old Sex” 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Yugoslavs used to refer to her as "the mother of Gypsy soul" because she was capable of conveying hurt and longing like few others. Ljiljana Buttler obituary 2010-05-12T17:43:00Z

The accumulation of reviews, lists, plans, and files from her exhibitions -- a palpable pile of career "longings and laurels" as she puts it -- constitutes a sort of equivalent self, another bulky body to contend with. The ultimate self-portrait? Identity through the lens of Kim Abeles 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Nostalgia suffuses this book, but it isn’t regret or a longing for lost innocence. A memoir of growing up on the farm that advised the White House’s Kitchen Garden

They went up against muscle-bound action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger and “Jurassic Park” for box office revenue, but Ephron and her movies had something that viewers were longing for. The new book 'I'll Have What She's Having' looks at what made Nora Ephron's three best films great 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

He said “Malibu” with the same rapturous tone of longing with which some Americans say “Tuscany.” Notes on the Exotic 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

The result is an engrossing account of their love story — full of longing and ardor, heartbreak and betrayal. Review | Revisiting the love story of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in their own words 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

A note in the Playbill for “A Beautiful Noise” suggests the profundity of that longing. Playing Neil Diamond: A Dream Role, and a ‘Crazy Privilege’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

The attachment and longing Locke experienced in relationships with his mother, friends and lovers exerted as much influence on his work as the texts he read and lectures he attended. The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Wheeler talked to friends, sometimes incessantly, about longing to honor that example. He helped build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. How did he end up dead in a landfill? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

She sings about romance, friendship, family and community; she sings about longing, infatuation, discord, heartache and healing. Joan Armatrading Is Still Searching for the Perfect Song 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

She presents herself as a latter-day Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter, full of longing and devotion, supported by the naturalism of piano, guitars and string sections. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

It is a vivid recollection of the dead woman's life and her unfulfilled longing. 'Say Her Name': a true-life story of love, marriage and death 2011-03-30T23:23:17Z

I had a moment of longing for New York sidewalks. Slow Travel: Walking in Wales 2013-05-24T17:03:36Z

In June of this year, while trimming blackberry bushes that threatened to overrun his two acres, he began longing for music festivals. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

We could crack open Kimberly’s heart, and let her express all of those feelings and emotions and fears and desires and longings, that are only subtext in the play. How They Assembled the ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Puzzle 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

That seemed like a good word for a vague longing. "You want a rich lady mouth": Could fixing my teeth fix my life? 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

She represents a cruel, central truth of the human condition: that we only have time and space to be who we are, but that longing is untethered and infinite. Noy Holland's novel 'Bird' slips between past and present, lover and life 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z

In my 15 years of working to broaden beauty standards and find the key to healthy body image for all, I’ve encountered those who echo Bartlett’s longing. Disabling the male gaze: “Longing” to be objectified won’t help shatter narrow beauty standards 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Where the films of later Australian directors often showcased the country’s vast, spectacular geography, for instance, he was far more interested in exploring the small-scale interior landscapes of longing, regret and memory. Paul Cox, Independent Filmmaker Who Explored Postmodern Life, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Beautiful, anguished, remote, Odette becomes one of the great Romantic symbols of the longing for redemption. All About Odette, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Queen 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

To the extent that the religious longings in here are real, they belong to the twelve-year-old Catholic version of myself. This Week in Fiction: Kevin Canty on Faith and Desire 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Ken’s longing for respect makes him a ridiculous, even pathetic figure; but he has a dogged, shabby sense of honor that the film views as a joke and repeatedly undermines. ‘Queenpins’ Review: Suburban Scammers 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

The longing for less is neither an illness nor a cure. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Family sentiments ran strong: longing spiked with anger, nostalgia with regret. Tracing Jewish History Along the Rhine 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

But longing for the past is not what makes "Stranger Things" such an emotional watch. The lure of “Stranger Things”? It’s not the '80s – it’s forgotten childhood freedom 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

“Grey,” with a final outcome already known to every “Fifty Shades” reader, departs on tepidly mixed notes of longing and machismo, in what is anything but a cliffhanger. Review: E. L. James’s ‘Grey’ Goes Inside His Brain, and, Yes, His Pants 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Aaron Zigman’s score is a syrupy concentrate of the standard musical signifiers for sadness and longing, and I was curious to know what she thought of it. Mica Levi’s Anti-Musical Soundtracks 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

But here the question, set to longing sighs in the orchestra, immediately evokes another complicated 19th-century operatic romance: Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” A King Arthur Rarity Is an Apt Way to Return to the Opera 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

But “Gravity” and “Interstellar” are both ultimately about the longing for home, about voyages into the unknown that become odysseys of return. Review: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar,’ with Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

But my longing is for Hillary to win. Andrew Garfield on Faith, Politics and Making 'Hacksaw Ridge' 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

It’s about money, and aspiration, and sex—more broadly, longing, one of Roth’s great themes. A Book Critic and a Food Critic Consider Philip Roth’s Favorite Strawberry Jam 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

They pulsed with sexual longing and barely suppressed violence. Andrea Arnold’s Immersive Cinema 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Joan Didion called him the “perfect mold” into which “the inarticulate longings of a nation” were poured. ‘John Wayne: The Life and Legend,’ Explains a Star’s Power 2014-03-24T21:54:48Z

Yet in the studio those same roots serve the band’s increasing introspection: a sense of weariness without resignation, tenacity toward no sure goal, and perennially unfulfilled longing. Critics' Choice: CDs From Los Lobos, Seu Jorge and Almaz, and Dr. John 2010-08-01T22:33:00Z

Still, that longing, cloaked in existential darkness with glints of light and stripped of explicit context, has everything to do with our common humanity. Best Known as a Holocaust Poet, Nelly Sachs Deserves Another Look 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

But the majority of notes I’ve gotten have been from readers attracted to what I call the “gray zone” of belief, that combination of spiritual longing and skepticism, openly expressed. Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

The highlight of the show arrived in the encore, with a version of “Just Wanna See” featuring a wistful guitar and Lee flexing a smoky lower register for maximum longing effect. Review | Shaed adds color but needs more depth at its D.C. homecoming show 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

A teenager in disguise, coiled with the same longings as every other girl? Review: In Megan Abbott’s ‘You Will Know Me,’ Gymnast Girl and Cute Dead Guy 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

In the film version, she looks frightened, full of longing, and yet somehow regal, which is completely right. Jessye Norman Was a Diva, in the Best Way 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

But listen closely; you’ll hear how these portrayals of a mythic, irreparably damaged future grow organically from fears and longings of the women’s artfully shaded afternoon chatter. For ‘Hangmen’ and ‘Escaped Alone,’ Connecting Threads in London 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

There’s real humanity in this novel, and there are insights about love and longing. Sex and Faith Overheat in Jamie Quatro’s ‘Fire Sermon’ 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

There are all these scenes in “Doom Generation” of the male characters looking at each other with such longing but never knowing quite how to articulate it. Gregg Araki Wants to Make America Gay Again 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

But at the same time — and this is true when it happens in a workshop, too — it feels a little cheap to turn the central character’s genuinely poignant longing and trauma into a scavenger hunt. This Novel Is Set in a ’90s M.F.A. Program. The Author Is Aware of Your Concerns. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

But Shadid's longing is so genuine, and his identification of home so definite, that "House of Stone" builds emotionally, reaching depths that surprise. 'House of Stone': a vagabond reporter's longing for home 2012-03-01T00:10:04Z

It’s all good punishment, and to their credit, Mr. Hoff and Mr. Smith rarely leave you longing for a foreground. Playlist: Making Mischief Along With the Melodies 2010-02-27T03:47:00Z

“People tell me, ‘Tyson, you’re always longing for the old days,’” he once said. Ian Tyson, Revered Canadian Folk Singer, Dies at 89 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

Singer Sufjan Stevens taps into the sweet sadness of longing within "A Little Lost," a rhythmic, instantly memorable rendition of a song about a long-distance passion. 'Master Mix' an homage to composer Arthur Russell 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

She rallies with empathy and longing as she embraces her children, tries to fight for more and better for them and for herself. In defense of the overlooked Kristen Stewart 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

Although the network may be overestimating the number of people longing for such an opportunity, Phillippe is very much the center of the series, which quickly becomes more man-under-pressure tale than a murder mystery. 'Secrets and Lies' on ABC fails to provide a reason to care 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

He could well be invoking a partner or a child, a certainty or a longing. Nick Cave Searches for Solace on ‘Ghosteen’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

We're not sure what the point of all this is, but we love the attention to detail and longing for a bygone age. New band of the day ? No 996: Destroyer 2011-04-01T15:35:16Z

Through various dishes, she expresses her longing, hopes, pain, frustration and desires. For the love of Mexican cuisine: Revisiting "Like Water for Chocolate" on its 30th anniversary 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

So, after much thought, prayer, and counsel, I made the decision that what was best for my children was not a choice that society stands by and certainly not my own maternal longing.” Gay couples have happier kids 2012-09-04T01:00:00Z

With Schubert, it’s more a feeling of nostalgia, a longing for something that you can’t have any more — a sadness which may or may not have been his health, or his life. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

But this show uses the disparity between words and music to suggest how inadequate most people’s vocabularies are in conveying their most ardent longings. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

So he softly squeezes her shoulder, a small gesture filled with doomed longing. The power of touch: what will it be like when we can all connect again? 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

The people who sang the blues, he said, were prone to “despair, longing and heartbreak.” At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

For Seattle drama buffs longing to see high-definition, internationally aired broadcasts from London's esteemed National Theatre this season, there is jolly good news. National Theatre productions can be seen on Western Washington screens 2010-10-07T16:56:00Z

Their sometimes anguished, sometimes heart-shatteringly funny weighing of their inner and outer worlds translates into two impeccably chiseled hours onstage and a lifetime of pain and longing. David Hare’s ‘Skylight’ Stars Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

Against this, social dances of the 1960s and ’70s evolve into expressive flicks and solo turns of ineffable longing. “What’s Going On”: Dance tribute to Marvin Gaye offers comfort and defiance 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

In both “Dead Girls” and “Against Memoir,” the lure of autobiographical writing is also a longing to capture our experience of time, to trap us in a moment that is always passing. Coming of Age — and Becoming a Writer — in an America Obsessed With ‘Dead Girls’ 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

“Sometimes it is a physical hollowness,” Calderon explains in his artist’s statement, “but I am also trying to expose a hollowness of spirit, a sense of emptiness or longing.” At Kucera Gallery: Mark Calderon, Sherry Markovitz 2013-05-30T19:45:07Z

But, except when it’s spoken by Ms. Falco — who gives a transfixing performance as a medicated madwoman longing to feel — there’s little that’s transporting here in Mr. Guare’s wild, yearning language. | 'The House of Blue Leaves' : A Papal Visit Has Dreamers Dreaming 2011-04-26T02:01:06Z

Her longing to be taken seriously as an artist, her ambition to play Chekhov, and Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, only add to the pathos of her story. John Banville on Marilyn Monroe 50 years after her death 2012-08-03T21:55:13Z

There was nobility and wistful longing to the searching slow movement. Music Review: Three Rising Stars Perform in Young Concert Artists Gala 2014-05-08T22:04:37Z

Many of us have never been more aware of that longing, with its insistent pain and hope, than during these months of pandemic. ‘Lungs’ Review: Claire Foy and Matt Smith Chase Love in the Dark 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

It satisfied their longing for someone quite androgynous. Edie Campbell: ‘I was told I was too fat to open Milan Fashion Week’ 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

It had a lock on our fantasies and projections and longings. | Let Us Now Praise Infamous Men 2013-09-04T19:12:10Z

He is credited with bringing Latin America to life for millions of readers with his tales of love and longing. Colombia to print Garcia Marquez banknotes in tribute to writer 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

It is by definition a portrait of longing. Wal-mart is an aphrodisiac! 2013-02-21T21:51:00Z

And I think there is a longing in “My Struggle” to get to the things in themselves. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

He gets Mulder to the point of doing what he has been longing to do: believe. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10, Episode 3: Mulder Rediscovers His Monster Mojo 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Inside the island’s old Army warehouse turned arts center, in a dim space smelling of earth and damp, a wild-haired man wakes from a dream to sing of longing and loss. Review: John Kelly Revives ‘Love of a Poet’ 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

And in the strangely moving “Oh Lucy!,” a middle-aged office worker in Tokyo is startled when her English teacher’s unconventional tutelage stirs up unfamiliar longings. Review: Award-Winning Short Films From Sundance 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

The circus keeps some of the most cherished human dreams alive: the longing for flight, freedom and unshakable trust embodied by the trapeze artists; the unity of human and animal perfected by the lion tamer. A fond farewell to Ringling Bros. and the wonders of the circus 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

Her eyes were fixed with no great curiosity on aspot on the ceiling, her heart no doubt longing to be delivered from the tedium of polemic. Richard Eyre: arts cuts will result in cultural apartheid 2011-02-15T12:53:26Z

Their mournful, evocative songs — about longing, loss and unresolved feelings — are interspersed throughout the men’s recollections, punching up the emotional tenor. Review: In ‘Where the Mountain Meets the Sea,’ Missed Connections 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Polenzani brought baffled tenderness to the opening songs, in which Jan is distressed by his longing. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

The literary suspense of “Leave the World Behind” hinges on that familiar guilt-tinged longing for a vacation that never ends. What Happens When a Vacation Goes Wrong — and Not in a Funny Way? 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

For all its pain and longing, “You Will Not Die” is not bleak: It tracks a long arc toward joy. For Nakhane, Songs Can Be Painful and Dangerous. His New Album Is a Balm. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

Her music dripped with the possibility of freedom and choice, memory and longing. The Melancholy Pop Idol Who Haunts China 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

I had one thing in common with Birdie, as he was called by fellow Yalies: I too was a New Yorker longing for empty horizons and open skies. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z

“Think of prayer as a bridge between longing and belonging,” Sister Anne replies. From Blood and Phlegm to Alcohol and Defenestration, Novels of Heartache 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

It is so easy to confuse spiritual longing with a craving for romantic love. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Your suggestion can be somewhere you have been longing to visit, or somewhere you have already been. 52 Places to Go in 2015 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Really, though, it’s that longing that unites the stories. This Week in Fiction: Kirstin Valdez Quade 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Within this big picture are personal stories, ones of frustration, longing and missed opportunity. Review: In ‘A Day by the Sea,’ Words Unsaid or Said Quite Bluntly 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

The final encounter between Konstantin and Nina – the teenager whose reverence for artists and longing for fame brings only unhappiness – is under‑powered. The Seagull – review 2013-04-21T15:39:52Z

It is the lament of a woman longing for death, even attempting to die, and yet continually brought back to life: “Soon, soon the flesh/The grave cave ate will be/At home on me.” Review: ‘The Night Dances,’ With Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

In Underwood’s moving interpretation, this deeply decent man is so overwhelmed by his responsibility for the two women’s happiness that their modest longings wound him like accusations. Tyson's inviting 'Trip to Bountiful' at the Ahmanson Theatre 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

I was living in Los Angeles and kept longing to be back in New York because I love the energy. “I Was Never Really the Ingénue”: An Interview with Judith Light 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

There's the tragedy, which always brings a sense of romance and longing. "There's lots of ways to be insecure": Jemima Kirke reflects on her "Girls" and "City on Fire" roles 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

When he saw the movie, with all the silence and longing surrounding the musicality of the orchestra, he knew he wanted to theatricalize it. How Orin Wolf Orchestrated a Tony Coup With ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Lately arrived from the chaotic Weimar Republic, Pevsner's longing for the blank slate of perfect order made psychological sense. The Books that Shaped Art History – review 2013-04-20T10:00:01Z

The Raven Girl's dreams of flight, and her anguished longing for metamorphosis, resonate in our aspirational age. Raven Girl/Symphony in C; iTMOi – review 2013-06-01T23:05:33Z

The episode left her paralyzed for nearly six hours — and longing again for Mr. Stucky, whom she was no longer seeing. 10 Engaging Proposals, From the Rooftop to the Subway 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

The emotional eloquence of an Astaire-Rogers number like “Never Gonna Dance” from Swing Time, which sums up the characters and their longing, could not be nearly approximated in the water. Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams 2013-06-13T15:28:43Z

Yola can moan and rasp and steamroller her way through a chorus, bringing crowds to their feet; she can also tease out the pain, longing and humor of subtler moments. Behind a ‘Best New Artist’ Nod: Yola’s 20 Years of Experience 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Here is a composer grappling with the heritage of German song, embracing Schumann and Schubert as contemporaries and bringing a modern slant to timeless themes of longing, delusion and suicidal despair. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes’s Ojai Festival Riffs on ‘Tristan’ 2012-06-10T21:47:09Z

It’s enough to know that they’re all linked together in one poisonous daisy chain of longing and futility. London Theater Journal: Maximally Minimal 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

When the drug had no effect, the dose was increased; but Megan’s longing seemed to increase. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

And he released a mix tape, “Nostalgia, Ultra,” in 2011 that was widely praised for its fresh take on contemporary rhythm and blues: restrained, heart-felt vocals and an air of wistful longing. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z

This “confirmed bachelor” never had a relationship, and while the two younger avatars sometimes express longings for love, however drolly, Mr. Dawson’s elderly Gorey seems philosophical about a life alone, but not lonely. Review: Peering Behind the Whimsically Ghoulish ‘Gorey’ 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

He made his live debut at a church in Denmark a year ago, and the natural reverb of the high ceiling enhanced his songs of longing and disconnection.-- SXSW 2013: It's a wrap 2013-03-17T23:33:00Z

Pin-Jui starts dating his childhood crush, Yuan, and their shared scenes pulsate with longing. ‘Tigertail’ Review: A Taiwanese Man’s American Dream 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

It is filled with a romantic longing for the past: the Irish past, the mythic past and also Yeats’s own. In Ireland, Chasing the Wandering Soul of Yeats 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

“Jane Fonda” shows everything – her pride, self-assurance and ego, but also her mistakes, vulnerability, longing and aches. Jane Fonda opens up about her “Five Acts”: It’s not your typical movie star story 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

More than a wish for excitement, boredom contains a longing for narrative, for engagement that warrants attention to the world. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

The painting, and its attendant longings, arc through Winman’s novel like sunflowers following the sun. A Literary Three-Hankie Weeper 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Sometimes we can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys: Is the Mark Zuckerberg of “The Social Network” a visionary or a scoundrel — or a latter-day Gatsby consumed by longing for an unattainable woman? The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z

“There’s joy, there’s longing, there’s heartache, there’s triumph.” Finding Beach Boy Brian Wilson 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

But they use contrasting and complementary physical vocabularies to balance, gracefully and clumsily, shifts in power and longing, aggression and retreat. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

They are incomplete stories, and viewers are left longing to meet Ms. Letinsky’s missing revelers. Laura Letinsky’s Food Photography 2012-10-09T22:53:17Z

I live for those times when an album explodes throughout American society as more than a product -- but as a piece of art that speaks to our deepest longings and desires and anxieties. Why I miss the monoculture 2011-09-29T00:01:00Z

After all, on the surface, it's a story that appears treacly — one filled with bedside hospital pleas and the longing glances of new love. Documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler says he's here to 'Stay' 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Even at my young age, I think we recognized in each other a longing for velvet slippers and designer furniture. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Neeva, short for Geneva, "a tiny, intense, bespectacled woman with unruly brown hair, vestiges of which ran down her jawline", is Jewish, and has literary pretensions, or longings, at least. Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z

Ryan Adams wrote a set of finely wrought, tenderly melodic songs about being together and being apart: about rain and rivers, flames and tears, longings and memories. Music of Heartache, Mortality and Success 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z

The setting for this display — the ancestral homeland — makes sense, since Chow’s cartography of unremitting grief includes immigrant loss and longing. Kat Chow on How Mourning Is Like Taxidermy 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Ideas, associations, affinities, memories, longings consitute, for Hodgkin, our real experience of the material world. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

For all the differences between the worlds shown in the Paradise films, what connects them is their characters' mutual longing for the unattainable. Ulrich Seidl: 'Those who say I despise people do not understand me' 2013-06-13T13:00:02Z

“It is reaching deep into the souls of girls and their desires and their longings and just how they move through the world and how they navigate all that is placed on them.” Caught Between Worlds? For Elizabeth Acevedo, It’s a Familiar Feeling 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

It is arguing for the power of art to answer a longing to be “recognized,” while bringing about the rediscovery of “our own powers of remembrance,” a pastime that demands the closest possible attention. Hisham Matar Spent ‘A Month in Siena’ Staring at Art 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

The novels tell the tragic story of Bobby and Alicia Western, siblings who are haunted by their physicist father’s role in the development of the atom bomb, and by their romantic longing for each other. In His New Books, Cormac McCarthy Gets Real 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

It's both incredibly specific to one situation — a breakup around the holidays — and exudes universal longing for escape and a desire to start over. The solace of Joni Mitchell's "River," a holiday song that defies merry and bright expectations 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

So my inner teenager spent many of this novel's 300 pages blushing scarlet, sticking his finger down his throat and longing to run away and forget about the whole thing. Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke 2010-10-08T13:49:00Z

At the heart of Farrow’s book is the time he spent as an aide to the legendary diplomat Richard Holbrooke, then a special representative working on Afghanistan and Pakistan while longing for a bigger job. In His First Book, Ronan Farrow Laments the Decline of Diplomacy 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

The Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman has always been a thoughtful interpreter with a gift for clarity and singing melodic lines — adept at the modes of expressive longing in Romanticism and Chopin alike. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

Margot is 17 and longing for more time with her father, who is frequently absent while maintaining another family in public. Debut Novels Reveal the Fragility of Female Bonds 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

“In the good old days,” I hear people say with nostalgia, tying their longing for safety to memories of a less violent past. The school shooting that wasn’t: When a lockdown isn’t worth it 2014-02-17T21:00:00Z

When a truly great wine was poured at a special occasion or meeting, poor Rumpole never got enough to satisfy his longing. Red Wine Is the Drink of Choice on ‘Scandal’ and ‘The Good Wife’ 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

He also has an unsentimental, sometimes chilly sense of the ways that ordinary human amorality, ethical confusion and sexual longing can turn banal circumstances into the stuff of high comedy. Movie Review: Death and Desire in ‘Stranger by the Lake’ 2014-01-23T23:17:56Z

Her only emotion is “relief,” and longing for “a button to delete the map from her own memory.” ‘Owlish’ Is a Darkly Fantastical Parable About Totalitarianism 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

Her character is flat and dull and spends much of her time longing for home, harshly judging her new American friends and family and talking about how she really shouldn't be complaining about it. Review: Chevalier's latest novel disappoints 2013-01-22T19:01:05Z

Are you happy with Daniel Craig, or are you already longing for a change? What makes a perfect Bond? 2010-04-20T10:24:00Z

He sings about varieties of desperation and loneliness, about withdrawals and breakups, about longing and resignation. New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z

Beth Orton, accompanied only by guitar and piano, fills “Go Down Easy” with mournful longing. New Music: The Dude Sings 2011-08-15T22:07:21Z

But if the moniker was bogus, Clara’s vocal gifts were real: a strong, supple alto that lent knowing intimacy to songs of love and longing. Patti Page: The Oklahoma Thrush With ‘The Tennessee Waltz’ 2013-01-04T21:54:52Z

No human would write “I would kiss you as many times as there are stitches in the children,” but the line is nonetheless flush with romantic longing and the hardships and violence of the period. Can algorithms be funny? Veterans of Clickhole and the New Yorker team up to find out. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

My only quibble would be with the idea that inside Gilbert's vengeful wife there is a showbiz chanteuse longing to escape. Betty Blue Eyes ? review 2011-04-13T22:00:00Z

Instead, starting in the mid-1990s, directing became an outlet for Brook’s childhood longing for family. Stepping Out of Her Family’s Shadow, and Laying Bare Family History 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

All the familiar themes are here: the clash of generations, the longing for the old country, the striving and accommodation and loneliness. Theater Review: ‘Rangoon’ by Mayank Keshaviah at Clurman Theater 2012-06-03T21:20:20Z

Just resolute lips and an unfocused gaze, that refuses to see you, your desperation, humanity and longing. You can have a church or be a free woman – but having both is a struggle 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Nothing good ever came from longing for the past. The Toys That Made Us: Netflix's show will make you rethink your childhood 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Bonded empathetically to the lion by the first moments of our gaze, I was immediately overwhelmed with sadness and a deep feeling of longing and loss. “The pigs were glowing deep gold”: The amazing experience that ended my life as a pig farmer 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

But is there also the tiniest bit of wistfulness, the slight but unmistakable hint of longing toward all that stylish chaos, all that selfish, retrograde abandon? Cultural Studies: On ?Mad Men,? The Allure of Messy Lives 2010-07-30T21:05:00Z

The songs from “Where It Goes” were gentle and diffident, full of pretty fingerpicking and the regrets and longing surrounding a breakup. Music Review: Golden Palominos, With Lianne Smith and Lori Carson 2012-12-31T22:51:39Z

He suggested an early “musical sequence on the farm” that would express a similar longing. Oz Revisited – Part 4: Where’s That Rainbow? 2013-09-19T14:51:07Z

Discovering the Zen idea of detaching from the world — in the words of the Tao, eliminating both “longing and aversion” — helped him to shift his perspective. What We Can Learn From Solitude 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z

My own hunch is that this longing is to do with sense of place, a connectedness that is increasingly elusive in our cities, which all look alike, and whose inhabitants come from everywhere and nowhere. We long for a sense of belonging that village life offers 2013-03-31T00:06:27Z

I asked with my mother’s longing for a son, I asked with patriarchy. Our Year in Poems 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

But live they did, and as news spread of the five babies’ astounding survival, the public’s longing for updates and photos grew. The Dionne Quints Were Premature and Tiny. But Fame Was the Real Problem. 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. Jones summoned all her expressive power for this album, with all the strength, longing, hurt and improvisational command that were still hers. Sharon Jones Says Farewell With ‘Soul of a Woman’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

The rise of feminism saw white women longing to leave the home and join their husbands in the boardroom, while many black women longed for the luxury of staying home. Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all 2013-12-05T19:26:00Z

What she doesn't — can't — understand is that their longings are as powerful as hers. Ann Beattie doesn't settle for easy solutions in 'The State We're In' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Her new novel, “All the Lives We Never Lived,” is once again filled with impossible longing. Review | Decades after his mother’s disappearance, a man searches the past for clues 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

There’s a wonderful discordance between the cool, reflective quality of Singh’s prose and the colorful imagery and powerful longing in her narratives. Review | Best new science fiction and fantasy this month 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

“Crush,” “girl crush,” “obsession,” and other terms of longing pop up frequently in tweets, blog titles, and hashtags, along with “fangirl” and “fandom.” We never escape teenage crushes: The Beatles, One Direction and what our early obsessions teach us about love 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Having assimilated the postmodern tendency toward pastiche and the pop art trope of repurposing the relics of mass culture, the zeitgeist was especially prone to backward glances, sometimes quizzical but mostly fond and even longing. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

And it rarely stays the same shape during this one-woman play about sex, longing and what churns beneath them, directed with finely gauged precision by Vicky Jones. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

But this wasn’t about fun, and the real longing wasn’t for each other. Modern Love: My Illness, the Third Partner in Our Relationship 2014-04-24T19:30:01Z

“Hallelujah” is his great anthem of religious ecstasy and sexual longing. ‘Hallelujah’ Review: From Leonard Cohen to Cale to Buckley to Shrek 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

Barbara's son, Madison, spent eight years interviewing his family members, friends and potential suspects, longing to learn more about his mother and gather evidence in hopes of solving her murder. "His Dark Materials," thriller "The Flight Attendant" and Maisie Williams hit HBO Max in November 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z

Multitracked trumpets, flutes, keyboards and voices cascade across the drummer’s light, ever-shifting beat, building chromatic harmonies that continually elude resolution — a structure of endless longing. Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

From her lips, calm and serious, came a paean to the furtive longing of adolescence, that “first pure thrill of unreluctant desire.” Rhyme or Reason: Alex Dimitrov?s Wilde Boys Salon, for Poetry or Maybe a Hot Date 2011-11-02T23:03:56Z

Say you are a character in a novel stranded in an East Asian academic setting and you are feeling a longing for something you can’t define. Should I quit academe? 2012-11-14T01:00:00Z

He pointed out that Mark faces “conundrums and passions and longings, all the while doing battle with himself over logic and his own grief from losing his wife.” Theater: ?On a Clear Day? Now Centers on the Psychiatrist 2011-11-27T05:27:19Z

What’s more, it sometimes satisfied these women’s deep longings for “acceptance, adventure, success, love, power.” Books of The Times: Robert Kolker’s ‘Lost Girls’ Delves Into Killings 2013-07-16T16:45:32Z

But onstage he was a flesh-and-blood presence, a human being working through the questions and longings in the songs. Review: From Bon Iver, Concerts Tailored to the Spaces 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

More than any new bass drop or drum pattern, the defining sound of Hard Day of the Dead on Saturday was dance music fans longing for a sense of danger. Danger's in the air at Hard Day of the Dead 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

Written while Mr. Cale lived in Los Angeles and worked in the artists-and-repertory department of Warner Brothers Records, “Paris 1919” is suffused with an expatriate’s distant longing; it’s filled with references to a bygone Europe. Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z

There is a keen but understated longing for the past in these stories. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z

And I’m longing for a greater connection, and I’ve got to see what my part in this is.’ Brad Pitt is ready to kick masculinity to the curb: ‘We have to redefine it’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

We may strive for different ends, but our longing for home is universal, and it is wonderful to share that road with others, instead of going it alone. My Orthodox exodus: When I left my community, I discovered myself 2014-04-13T12:00:00Z

The moment is naughty in a film suffused with adult knowing and melancholic longing. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

That really defines a lot of what goes on, that each person has their own hunger, their own longing, their own need. Judith Light isn't afraid of aging: "These are the crone years" 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z

Having averred that the theme of Sehnsucht, or longing, tied the program together — certainly it’s a major theme in German romanticism in general — Padmore emphasized text more than vocal beauty. Tenors show two facets of recital tradition 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

The Silver Bear for best leading performance went to German actress Maren Eggert who plays a scientist exploring life and longing with a handsome humanoid robot in ‘I’m Your Man.’ Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear goes to ‘Loony Porn’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

But on a meta level, it’s about being an actress trapped in flimsy supporting roles in shows about men, and longing to play something with greater substance. When Women Won’t Accept Theatrical Manspreading 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

With Seidel it’s always an angular, witty longing. This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

More than anything, Rima aches with an existential loneliness, a desperate longing to discover other people like herself. Review | For Earth Day, a beloved but often overlooked love story 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Those early experiences aside, my main memory of books in my childhood is one of longing. How Libraries Saved Cheryl Strayed 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Whether Easter means meditations on the Passion or a longing for chocolate, the time for writing it down is now. Poster poems: Easter 2010-03-26T10:58:00Z

Yet by the end of the day I found myself longing for the sleepier isle. In Estonia, a Hotel Keeps Its Promise 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

There enter in questions of what it is to be consumed by love or lust, by shame, by the longing to be someone else or nobody. The Yips by Nicola Barker - review 2012-07-18T07:00:03Z

It incensed social conservatives for its unapologetic depiction of female desire, but struck a chord with readers for its frank portrayal of sexual longing without moral approbation. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

And some sort of hunger or longing also seems central to Ms. VanDerBeek’s own work, which she began showing seriously four years ago. Putting Memories to New Use 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

Those longing for a more traditional take should probably wait for the movie itself before selling their Superman action figures on eBay, however. Man of Steel trailers: a hitchhiker from another galaxy 2012-07-23T16:19:36Z

At one point, Sylvia and her masters break into a tender trio rendition of "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," a Cole Porter ballad that expresses the threesome's entwined longings perfectly. 'Sylvia': Canine comedy at Seattle Rep 2011-11-18T21:05:04Z

Taking in the scene at Lion’s Den, I thought about Graham Greene and seediness and the sense of longing for something lost. For Ybor City in Florida, a historic cigar town faces a cloudy future 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

“The Hang” is a show that speaks to the restlessness and longing of this moment, and offers comfort in sensuous pleasure. ‘The Hang’ Review: Taylor Mac Enfolds Us When We Need It Most 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

There is real longing and loving and the idea of people being happy. London Calling 2011-07-28T10:31:50Z

Consider Bill, the underdog paper hero of “I’m Just a Bill,” longing to become a law that would keep that cartoon school bus safe at railroad crossings. ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ at 50: Those Are Magic Numbers 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

A swirl of eerie whistles envelops the production, and her chant of “I wish” leaves behind a sense of palpable longing. Tirzah’s Genre-Less Pop Embraces the Beauty of Uncertainty 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Volle’s Dutchman slowly made his way down a steep exit ramp, stopping to express his anguished longing for salvation. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

At times I found myself longing for a greater faith in the power of image or action to convey emotion and significance. ‘Christodora’: A powerful novel about the AIDS crisis and its legacy 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

His memoir, published when Guest was just 27, is filled with wistfulness, a longing for her undivided attention. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

As I walked down to the beach I was shaking and longing to go home, but I was the fastest swimmer in my age group and headed out on to the bike feeling great. 'Toddler twins, a demanding job... why not take on an Ironman?' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

“Mr. Courtenay, a naturally demonstrative actor, registers a convincing blend of longing, confusion and shame,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘45 Years,’ ‘Carol,’ and Lin-Manuel Miranda on ‘S.N.L.’ 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

It's a subtlety of Gray's that the teacher – a clammy but distinguished Robert Glenister – should hover rather than pounce over his pupil, and that his romantic longings seem to leave the boy unscathed. The Late Middle Clases; The Crucible; Ingredient X 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Perhaps after converting to another religion, moving across town and living in a fancy mansion left him with a sense of longing. In Vermeer’s Hometown, Seeking Clues to His Interior Life 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

But here, his first solo directorial effort, there’s a more austere approach to the character design to make its exploration of the human longing for the unknown, and not the stylization, the focus. Animation That’s More Than Kids’ Stuff 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

You're in a state of rapture, mixed with longing and pain. Aiuthor, author: Lisa Appignanesi on the language of love 2011-02-12T00:05:39Z

They were about young women who wished to flee their stultifying families and small towns, and they were frank about sexual longing. Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z

This play with memory and longing opens into broader, poetic reflections on immigrant life. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

When she encounters the actress at a gathering, the narrator feels “certain she’s longing to talk with me again, to that interesting, unusual woman.” In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

But mostly, we find Deadmau5 longing for some sort of house music yesteryear. Review: Deadmau5 doles out lackluster EDM 2012-09-24T16:16:06Z

For all its craft, “Racing Dreams” leaves you longing for more information about the sport. | 'Racing Dreams': Marshall Curry?s Kart Racers, With Full-Throttle Ambitions 2010-07-08T23:44:00Z

Simultaneously painful and pleasurable, my longing might once have been described, and with some accuracy, as nostalgia. The lost promise of nostalgia: What modern pop culture gets wrong 2014-03-16T20:00:00Z

It was the opening line of “Waitin’,” a song about the delirium of longing, but while presenting immersion as a type of ascension, she sank into the Bandwagon’s music by rising up to meet it. Perspective | Kelela has a song in her head. Do you hear it, too? 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

It suggests a longing for a world — free, open, upwardly mobile — that began to break down more than 30 years ago. Architecture Review: Nostalgia Wrapped In Steel 2011-04-25T18:44:12Z

Yet each found moments in the music to suggest the womanly longing that consumes them. Review: Met Opera’s ‘Adriana Lecouvreur’ Bristles With Passion and Danger 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Like Tomine, his territory is that of the contemporary urban dweller: educated, disaffected, vaguely arty, longing for a meaning that doesn’t always assert itself. Michael Cho's graphic novel 'Shoplifter': Adrift in the city 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

In a voice that mingles the child’s longing with the adult’s awareness, August studies a trio of girls who pass below her window. ‘Another Brooklyn’ reminds us of a Brooklyn far from the tony borough of today 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Set at the very end of the second world war, the film expresses a revulsion with violence, a longing instead for ordinary affection. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z

Over ghostly, circling piano motifs, the songs on “Weather Alive” meditate on longing and memory, connection and solitude, nature and time. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Shepard's purpose is clear enough: to use fraternal division as a metaphor for unfulfilled American longings. Review 2010-05-19T00:01:00Z

Fortunately “Pieces of Me,” the album, shrugs off this burden, leaving Ledisi to revel in longing, pride and exhortation — and of course in her voice, a big, expressive instrument that stops just shy of strident. New Music 2011-06-13T22:00:32Z

Or perhaps she wrote the poem to remind herself that even the affliction of illicit longing can lift the gaze to God. The Hidden Life of a Forgotten Sixteenth-Century Female Poet 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Several London theaters currently have Chekhov productions, including "Three Sisters," a heart-wrenching tale set in a drab provincial town depicting the sisters' longing and desperation following the death of their father. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z

Privately, though, his wishes were tinged with longing. Finally, Out of the ‘Friend Bucket’ 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

While Daddy, who works in the oil fields of Leechfield, where Agent Orange is manufactured, has a sweet steady Texas grit, Mother has what her daughter calls East Coast longings. Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

By now, Peck has a playbook, which works for and against him as he flips between joy and longing. Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’ 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

It is woeful but I hear more resolve than longing. WHY?'s San Francisco road-trip playlist 2013-05-24T23:10:24Z

Living in what the critic Albert Murray called “this great hit-and-miss republic,” Washington’s characters pivot between alienation and longing. ‘Lot’ Offers a Fictional Look at a Vibrant, Polyglot American City 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

It satisfies a longing that I think naturally exists in people. ‘The New Pope’ Looks a Lot Like John Malkovich 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

A showgirl “is an untouchable thing, that beauty and mystique. I do find myself longing for what it was.” The sad demise and curious afterlife of the Vegas showgirl 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

As tinged with longing as “Cost of Living” is, it’s also laugh-out-loud funny. Martyna Majok on Hoping for Magic, and Wishing for Ghosts 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z

"All good music is created from longing," Lykke Li says when asked what characterizes the pop music coming from her native Sweden. Lykke Li's second album blends youthful vulnerability and mature sound 2011-05-19T19:59:17Z

Full of tension and longing, it reveals the character’s state of mind: confused and anguished, yet also intrigued. How ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Brought Step to the Met 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Each setting had guests longing for Memorial Day and the season of picnics and outdoor feasts to come. Bronson van Wyck and Celerie Kemble’s Summer Tablescapes 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

There are supernatural elements in this series, but at its core are stories about human feelings and failings: frustration, longing, regret, pain and more. 5 Spooky Halloween Comics for Horror Fans 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z

She frequently cuts to spectators, returning to them again and again to show that our faces—with their twitches of longing, agony, and even boredom—can dance as much as our limbs. Dancing with Claire Denis 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The myth of the sasquatch, he added, “represents a longing to make sense of whatever it is that’s incomplete in us” — an urge palpable in all his films. ?Letters From the Big Man,? Starring Lily Rabe 2011-11-04T22:01:54Z

These are shot in a style that is at once straightforward — singers facing the camera as they belt out verses of longing and betrayal — and stylized, in a retro-MTV manner. | 'Passione': Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy 2011-06-21T22:19:30Z

It’s hard to imagine another actor pulling off Camille’s subtle shame and longing. Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Their portrait of Paris is surprisingly beautiful, touched less by the artists’ painful circumstances than by a longing for respite from bleak lives. For Homeless Photographers, Pride of Place in Paris 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Gray, balloon-like clouds hang over the city, blocking the sunlight and keeping the citizens longing for better days. Five Children’s Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Steady keyboard arpeggios and a moody backdrop of strings carry the album’s first single, “Breathe You in My Dreams,” a confession of solitary longing that crests in an urgent call and response. New Music: New Albums by Trixie Whitley and Kris Kristofferson 2013-01-28T22:36:50Z

The ache of both longing and fear to enter a pulsing, human world that feels tantalizingly distant pervaded not only the show’s title song but the production as a whole. Review: For Sondheim’s 90th Birthday, a Collage of Aching Voices 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

If Ms. Replansky’s work was suffused with loss and longing, it was also rarely devoid of hope. Naomi Replansky, Poet of Hopeful Struggle, Dies at 104 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

When one man abruptly walked away, a woman reached out slowly with her leg in a way that — ever so lightly — suggested the ache of longing. Jessica Lang Dance, Leila Josefowicz and the NSO, waltzing together onstage

They sustain a double vision of past and present, childhood reminiscences and grown-up reflections, alienation and longing, thoughts about the “modern kids” who “build it up just to burn it back down.” The Arcade Fire, a Thriving Throwback 2010-07-28T16:09:00Z

I don’t mean times I was alone—I mean times I felt loneliness swelling in my throat, felt longing on my skin like sunburn. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

This ghostly topography conjures up ideas about searching and longing, destruction and creation, presence and loss. In 'Making Mends' at BAM, works tell stories of loss and of healing 2012-05-17T20:00:12Z

I was especially moved by the spirituals when she sang with just the piano, like “City Called Heaven,” in which she conveyed a poignant mix of longing for the promised city, sadness and childlike innocence. Review: Kathleen Battle Returns to the Met After 22 Years. It Was Worth the Wait. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

These wedding artifacts and heirlooms are a testament to the creative, inventive and resourceful way women married during years marked by loss, uncertainty, fear and longing. The Disruption of Weddings, Then and Now 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Most of his songs were lyrical meditations on longing for personal happiness and paeans to socially minded utopias. Cuba singer Rodriguez wistful and polemical in U.S. show 2010-06-05T08:00:00Z

Pope Pius IX, driven by righteousness and paternal longing, takes Edgardo under his protection and raises him like a son. Music Review | Dicapo Opera Theater: Boy Is Ensnared in 19th-Century Papal Politics 2010-02-26T22:20:00Z

The album is technically well-managed and the songs pulse with a common sense of longing. Review: Zedd aces his freshman album test 2012-10-08T16:32:12Z

“Last time,” she said, “I danced four pieces I would never normally do together. They were all on the sad side, about longing. Normally this would just be too much, too much intensity.” In India, a Dance Haven Shuts Out the World 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

Regardless of one’s opinion of what went on, Dev’s heartache and longing were palpable. Aziz Ansari Is Still Searching 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

It's just really, really torchy, a ballad of loss and longing. The rise of Adele, new gay icon 2011-02-25T21:40:00Z

Brazil, the country of carnival, football and nuts, has a word for the absence of happiness: saudade, used to describe the feeling of longing for happiness that once was. Uncovering the secret to collective happiness | Helen Russell 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

Lily King isn’t afraid of big emotional subjects: desire and grief, longing and love, growth and self-acceptance. Review | Lily King’s ‘Five Tuesdays in Winter’ is as beautiful and tender as ‘Writers & Lovers’ 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

But others hold their shape and summon an elusive mood of longing within the sonic wonderment. Playlist: New Work From White Rabbits and Magic Youth 2012-03-11T03:09:07Z

But it’s also the essence of cultural nostalgia: the longing to find some “this” that reproduces the cherished pleasures of some long-ago “that.” ‘The Get Down’ and ‘Stranger Things’ Feed Nostalgia With a Historical Remix 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

The film, which features keyframe animated computer graphic characters and digitally printed backgrounds consists of a series of vignettes from around the world about couples, longing, and loneliness. A guide to watching the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, from cheeky birds to grisly torture 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z

Having honed a real talent for dialogue toughened by unspeakable longing, Johnston imbues with tenderness even moments of utter desecration, as in the opening story, which concludes with spitting into a grave. Review | In ‘Rites,’ Savannah Johnston portrays the aching, farcical nature of existence with stunning clarity 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

They barely make it through the winter, their bodies and stifled longings all cramped together in a mud cave. New Books: ?Irma Voth,? ?Boxer, Beetle,? ?Cabin,? ?Headhunters? 2011-09-14T22:31:31Z

An underlying subject of all three films is longing and bodily shame. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Hope,’ the Third Film in Ulrich Seidl’s Unblinking Trilogy 2013-12-16T22:48:24Z

There’s this soulful longing that stirs something in me and makes me want to feel. B.A. Parker Can’t Get Enough of K-Dramas 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

A subset of this grief arises from longing for connection, albeit connection — is he so different from the rest of us in this way? — on his own terms. This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

The reference — a rare topical mention in Maxwell’s lyrics — came from the same place as most of his writing: an intense longing, and lingering anxiety, about finding that forever love. Maxwell Is on His Own Timetable 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Luke, meanwhile, is still sort of around, unwilling to let go of Lola entirely and thus feeding her longing to get back together with him. Movie Review: Daryl Wein’s ‘Lola Versus’ With Greta Gerwig 2012-06-07T22:39:20Z

Take, for example, the war in Iraq, which Mr. Robin argues was less about oil than the neoconservative longing for a project of national greatness more noble than simply making money. Corey Robin?s ?Reactionary Mind? Stirs Internet Debate 2012-01-18T23:05:28Z

The deep motive is a longing to arrest and reverse the movement of time, to recover some of the ardor and bewilderment of youth. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

In planning the fascinating series of six concerts at Zankel Hall that concluded on Tuesday night, the composer explored the various approaches composers have taken to relate tales of adventure, love, longing and spiritual questing. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z

As Mary is prone to fiery impetuosity, Bouchard's Protestant Queen Elizabeth is a cooler, more regally circumspect Virgin Queen — yet also a woman of flesh and blood, longings and regrets. At ACT, a tale of 2 queens, 1 throne 2011-09-16T19:59:04Z

Get some help if this might apply to you; otherwise, you may spend a lifetime imbued with longing. I love my boyfriend but he only likes rough sex 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

"Pencil Full of Lead" is a Carry On rock'n'roll parody of sexual longing, featuring a tuba. Paolo Nutini 2010-04-10T23:08:00Z

When we meet Sophie, it’s about 10 years into their marriage, and she is struggling with her identity as a mother and a wife, and how that is affecting her longing to be a writer. She Went Viral Mocking Trump. Now Sarah Cooper Is Taking on a New Role. 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

Each time the actors begun to sing, it introduces a wholly new dimension, their layered voices lovely and suffused with longing. Review: ‘Sehnsucht’ Navigates the Inexact Science of Nostalgia 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

I understand Arnold's longing – and I recognize that a transracial, transnational adoption entails complications that I, as a white American-born baby adopted by white American parents, never had to contend with. 23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

When that didn’t cure Brinton of his same-sex longings, Sam says that the therapist attempted “physical aversion therapy,” burning or freezing the child’s hands when pictures of men touching other men were displayed. Conversion therapy is “torture”: LGBT survivors are fighting to ban “pray the gay away” camps 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Moviegoers have to choose between presence and distance, between living in the moment and longing to learn more about what’s far away. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

The range of rockers’ tattoos, expressing friendship, longing, sentiments, politics, and sheer delight in oneself, illustrated the range of emotions that had as many as 20 million Americans tattooed by 1995. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

It was the quality of her voice—economical, confident, tinged with a bit of plaintive longing. The Melancholy Pop Idol Who Haunts China 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

I think I was really longing for something new to really test me and make me nervous again and get that adrenaline. "I'm actually not freezing my eggs": Nikki Glaser opens up about comedy, fertility and oversharing 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

They are often infused with longing for an aesthetic and philosophical ideal that seems always to be vanishing, like fragrant smoke. An American in Japan, Leading a Zen Koan of a Life 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

All four convey heartbreak, longing, love and laughter with ease. In MetroStage’s ‘Shake Loose,’ nothing’s left unsung 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Laser’s wide-eyed fascination at the sight of Clay rough-housing with his father registers curiosity and barely articulated longing. | 'The Kids Are All Right': Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and the Sperm Donor 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z

The smoky texture of the images led me to think of her technique as a kind of sfumato: shading in and out of moods of presence, absence and longing. ‘Faya Dayi’ Review: A Dream State 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Given the vastness of our apparent disconnect, how could I tell him the truth of my longing? Modern Love: Wearing Your Heart on Your Skin 2011-07-08T19:05:31Z

But she also registers the tremors of longing that Callie has repressed but cannot shake. Review: Moving power of love in 'Stop Kiss' confronts brutality

We also see the Creature's yearning for companionship, his longing for love, his aching need for a female counterpart. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z

Yet underneath her perfectly styled wardrobe, visits with her potential child and distant yet cordial relationship with husband David, there is a longing for sensation and connection. In her novel 'The Expatriates', Janice Y.K. Lee explores contemporary lives in Hong Kong 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The work is shown as part of the larger concept of the group show at the New Museum called “Ostalgia”  — a German expression that describes a longing for life during the era of communist rule. Ostalgia the New Museum: Simon Starling's Polski Fiat 2011-09-25T02:41:32Z

Or did he become sociopathic because she was temperamentally unsuited to mothering, longing for the freedom of her previous life? What Do Novels About Evil Children Say About Us? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

Sally’s “Losing My Mind” is another ode to longing worthy of her heart-melting voice. Casting a ‘Follies’ of the Future, With Beyoncé and Ben Platt 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Once, however, Taprobane had been a place that fulfilled his longing for extremes. In Sri Lanka, an Island of Detachment and Desire 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Even today, just looking back at the rolling reams of tracklisting fills me with a kind of bittersweet longing, of joys remembered and heartaches overcome. My favourite album: 69 Love Songs by Magnetic Fields 2011-08-25T14:38:00Z

With a backward glance so ardent it seems full of longing, “The Way I See It” offers, if nothing else, a more pleasant view. ‘The Way I See It’ Review: Hailing Days Not Too Far Past 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Cumberbatch is playing a repressed homosexual, who overcompensates for his longings by acting tough. Benedict Cumberbatch is intimidating in Jane Campion's exquisite and potent "Power of the Dog" 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

“I’m longing for the day where there’s a piece that is the entirety of her abilities.” Laura Benanti Takes On 54 Below and Her Career 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

In that sense, "Notes to a Future Lover" is a book about loss — not nostalgia so much as longing, wistfulness. Ander Monson's 'Letter to a Future Lover' and the lives of books 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

She has direct access to the midnight gods of torch songs, neon signs, tap beer at a reasonable price, cigarettes and untrammeled longing. Review: Sarah Hepola’s ‘Blackout,’ on the Darkness That Took Over Her Life 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

But the typical atmosphere in such an establishment isn’t one of arousal and longing, the kind that reliably fills the air in a female strip club. Male strippers: Please, just leave it on 2012-06-29T00:00:00Z

From movies to literature to video games, the bleak aftermath of either a natural or man-made global holocaust easily plays into both our worst fears and inner longing for adventure. Review: 'Metro: Last Light' a can't-miss shooter 2013-05-16T14:41:10Z

In this production, the actors are playing characters trapped by predatory birds and longing to escape. Review: ‘The Birds’: Less-Than-Fierce-Feathered Nature in Revolt 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

There are real feelings, heartaches and longings and dreams, but there is no opposition between funny and serious, nor between Nature and Art. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

The longing I have for a drink on Thanksgiving, just like any time I have a longing for a drink, isn't really about that drink, in the same way that Thanksgiving isn't really about family. Drinking is a huge part of Thanksgiving — here's why I'm avoiding it 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Her distinctive sound, warm and sumptuous with a dusky cast, and her raw intensity combined to convey the longing and fear embedded in every phrase. Review: An Absent Baritone Looms Over the Met Opera’s ‘Onegin’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

But later he described to me the dual nature of this character’s longing for an unattainable coolness, finding that ridiculous, impossible, but still hoping it’s not. This Brand Could Be Your Life: David Shapiro’s “Supremacist” 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

“And still they try. … A kind of ethos emerges from the urban cacophony: We are all connected in our disconnection, our solitude, our heartache, our longing. We are united by the city.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Fighting for a client or leaning in to Matt with barely suppressed longing, she transmutes a comic-book tale into real, trembling life. In ‘Daredevil,’ on Netflix, the Punisher Stirs Up the Gangs 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

We may have some childlike longing for instant praise and success. How to work with an illustrator 2013-02-15T01:00:00Z

The final stanzas invite the recipient to sing the songs “without hollowness or embellishment, / knowing only longing.” Opera Over the Phone Offers Passion in a Pandemic 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

Ripley's Caroline, the eldest child, is a more complex creation than the brothers, a beautiful middle-aged mess who resents both her parents, for different reasons, while longing for her mother's approval. 'Delicious' delivers a tart tale of a dying salty matriarch 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

"Behind his furrowed brow and tendency to complain roil new and exciting storms, which may tilt the tale away from love and longing and back to adventure," echoed Los Angeles Times critic Mary McNamara. Thumbs up for Capaldi's Doctor 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

In his teens, Smith studied fashion magazines and slasher flicks, longing to re-create their imagery. A Photographer’s Elaborate Transformations in His Childhood Bedroom 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Unlike Gauguin, who worked with bright, lively colors evoking a sense of sometimes problematic exoticism, Lüpertz uses colors that are dark and weighty and suggest a sense of longing. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Comprising multiple, loosely interwoven plot threads united as much by the characters’ lyrical speech patterns as their end-of-life longings, “Ray Meets Helen” has a wistful, whimsical sophistication that has all but disappeared from movies. Review: Lonely in Los Angeles, Until ‘Ray Meets Helen’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

In “Fellow Travelers,” Nyswaner expands on the themes that define much of his film work — the ways in which longing, sex and secrets intersect with the law. To Make ‘Fellow Travelers,’ Ron Nyswaner Had to Fall in Love 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z

Instead, and sometimes despite itself, it’s a reflection on aging and memory, on longing and mortality. New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z

Nothing so obvious as motivations are offered for the sisters’ gruesome destinies, as Coppola renders their story as a fable of heightened adolescent longing and desire. Sofia Coppola on making The Virgin Suicides: 'When I saw the rough cut I thought: Oh no, what have I done?' 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Sadness and longing haunt the films of the French director Julie Bertuccelli, whose gorgeous second feature, “The Tree,” is set in Queensland, Australia, on the outskirts of Brisbane. | 'The Tree': A Tree That Shelters Animal Life and Maybe Even a Dead Parent 2011-07-14T23:23:22Z

Besides, critics longing for a silverback alpha male to declare the leader of the pack are never going to glance at the distaff side. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z

Being trapped inside a cell for so long forced me to suppress my innate longing for nature and all the memories attached to it. My pandemic epiphany: nothing compares to the natural beauty of Texas 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

After Cole's studio debut "The Sideline Story" and "Born Sinner," many hip hop fans found themselves longing for Cole’s mixtapes. Top 10 rap albums of the decade 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

What would it mean to portray the cheerleader as she is — with all her attendant ambition, anger, longing and fearlessness? Megan Abbott on Cheerleaders in Pop Culture 2012-07-27T15:27:38Z

But mostly these are songs of barely disguised pain and a longing for freedom and normalcy. Music Review: ?The Music of Terezin? at 92nd Street Y 2012-01-20T23:54:05Z

‘E.T.’ is as contemporary as laser-beam technology, but it’s full of the timeless longings expressed in children’s literature of all eras.” Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

A fiery solo for Green could be the same — though here, she seems to seethe with longing for another person, or maybe with the grief of losing someone. ‘Are You in Your Feelings?’ Review: The Ups and Downs of Love 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Like many of Shreve’s protagonists, Grace is filled with inchoate longing. ‘The Stars Are Fire,’ by Anita Shreve, ignites history 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

She herself succumbs on occasion to nostalgia for the era of her parent’s youth, a longing that starts with the clothes. Katherine Waterston of ‘Inherent Vice’ Shyly Captivates the Fashion World 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

This scenario could create satisfaction for him, but resentment and longing for you. My partner says our relationship is the sexiest he's had. For me, it's the least. Can it be saved? 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Jered Standing, 40, who owns Standing’s Butchery in Los Angeles, never stopped longing for meat during the five years he was a vegetarian. The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The building itself evolves and reshapes, reacting to William’s moods and preternatural state of grief, loneliness and longing. Hell House 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

That helps me get through the longing and loneliness when she’s not here. Two Decades Filled With Laughter and Pastry 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

There's a longing to see a kind of veiled feminism in her music. Loretta Lynn's music: That's how the Republican women I grew up with talked (behind men's backs) 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Mr Hovey's longing, misread glances towards the musical accompanist, his inability to hold the signage the right way around, the air of desperation – all are played to ingenious and often comic effect. The Devil and Mister Punch ? review 2012-02-10T18:16:09Z

An old photograph of a city, like the Albert Kahn images of Paris, is at once old enough to provoke longing and sufficiently familiar to reinforce a sense of continuity, grounding the viewer in history. Our old-timey addiction: Why we can’t get enough of century-old images 2013-12-14T23:00:00Z

In a blog for The American Scholar in 2015, Goetsch wrote about how she “longed daily to be a woman,” a longing she had suppressed since childhood. 17 New Nonfiction Books to Read This Season 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

It’s “a thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Disappearance’ and ‘True Life: We Are Orlando’ 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

It received an excellent performance from the silvery-voiced soprano Susanna Phillips, who captured the cycle’s varied moods, from erotic longing to dark comedy. Music Review: A Celebration of the Song Recital, and of the Potential of 4 Young Voices 2011-01-24T23:20:10Z

“To the Lighthouse” encapsulates Woolf’s love and longing for her mother — as well as her conflicted view of her mother’s vision of Victorian womanhood. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

The kids play along with him as he pretends to satisfy their fast-food longings. 'Biutiful': Javier Bardem is striking as a dying father in the slums of Barcelona 2011-02-03T20:19:07Z

Here there is a nostalgic longing for an imaginary past. Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

Inspired by the rich architectural mix of Budapest and the mountains and folklore of Transylvania, it's a work that plays between emotional and physical opposites: love and shame, fear and longing, freedom and punishment. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-07-06T23:05:28Z

“But when you see the play as a whole, it’s impossible not to understand that the characters are deeply human and longing to be loved.” Lucas Hedges Moves From ‘Manchester’ to the Stage 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

But I think it was more than just the longing bred from loneliness and isolation. Driving 2,130 Miles for a Haircut 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Its limits, made for both innuendo and artful elision, align with passionate longing: You fall in love with what isn’t there. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

The song draws on classical Arabic poetry’s ancient reserve of melancholic longing, considering the possibilities that emerge by slowing down and immersing oneself in desolation. 15 Songs We Almost Missed This Year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Ali’s longing looks, Dargis points out, are “more forceful than mere admiration” and get incredibly “close to a visceral sense of desire.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Hellboy’ and ‘Burlesque’ 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

They all added up to "an interesting new breed of warrior princesses," said the New York Times' AO Scott, "whose ascendance reflects the convergence of commercial calculations and cultural longings." Brits in Spandex and girl power: movie trends that will keep us talking in 2013 2013-01-03T16:35:05Z

Mohseni’s line readings feel, at first, presentational, but her gaze is astonishing in its ability to convey longing and a mask of contentedness. ‘See You Then’ Review: The More Things Stay the Same 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Enter the impossibly beautiful 73-year-old Redgrave, who takes the most ethereal of scripts and infuses her character with abundant heartache, longing and hope. "Letters to Juliet": Predictable, but easy to love 2010-05-14T00:20:00Z

These are numbers that throb, delicately but persistently, with the longing and regret inspired by life’s illusions and evasions. Michael Friedman, a Man of Many Voices and a Gift for Prophecy 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Or longing for some apple carts to be upset? 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Do We Really Want Anything to Change? 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

The solution to Hazel’s murder may lie forever beyond our grasp, but it’s our longing for answers that makes her story — and the story of Laura Palmer — so seductive. Hazel’s brutal murder was all but forgotten. Until she inspired ‘Twin Peaks.’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Before my dibling appeared, I had been longing for connection, halfheartedly dating a widower I met online. A Stranger Looked Like My Twin. That Was Just the Beginning. 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

The longing to be anointed, once and for all, as “the real deal” is a fundamentally hopeless desire. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

Its nine stories sketch a world of hidden histories, of longings past and present, and of a culture carving its way out of historical trauma. From Anthony Veasna So, Glimpses of Cambodian Life in California 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

From a two-channel video on display, the longing voices of a man and woman singing a kwv txhiaj, a traditional Hmong tonal poem, fill the room. A Minnesota Exhibit Framed Around Longing for Home 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

One of our biggest rock stars, Springsteen has written a new canon of rock songs that deeply integrate his own desire, trouble and longing with the larger story of America. The 10 most important books of 2016 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

But Ms. Zollar cautioned against “a longing to keep Africa in the same unchanged silo.” In Africa, a Village of Mind, a World of Styles 2010-05-21T22:37:00Z

There was always something a little weird about Barrie’s cloying depiction of Wendy as the object of the Lost Boys’ maternal longings. Review | This charming new version of J.M. Barrie’s timeless play is all about girl power 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

He signed his pots “Dave” and added witty couplets that sometimes praised the very “noble jar” on which they were inscribed or expressed his longing to see the stars or lost family members. Antiques: Pottery by David Drake, a Slave Craftsman in Edgefield, S.C. 2012-08-30T21:17:32Z

Manohla Dargis wrote in her review for The New York Times that the movie is “serious, beautiful, wise to the absurdity of life and in the embrace of a piercing longing.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind’ and ‘The Widow’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

But — as she proposes on the new album’s ode to an artist’s muse, “Bright Star” — sometimes longing and distance can bear unexpected fruit. After 16 Years in ‘Hadestown,’ Anaïs Mitchell Emerges With a New Album 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

Arthur is a sweet, harmless guy who claims to be the son of God; things begin to happen when he finds an emotional connection with a professional woman longing to become pregnant. The Insatiable Moon ? review 2011-03-03T22:25:01Z

The authors weave the magical beings into their own cultures, some taking heavy hints from “The Arabian Nights,” others using djinn as an abstract, heavy longing to belong or as a haunting presence on Mars. Best science-fiction and fantasy books to read in March 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Olsson sings about falling in and out of love, about bliss and longing. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z

“When I found out the Mancini house was available, I had a longing to spruce it up.” Kelsey Grammer 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m longing to know more about the amazing ecosystem of a forest canopy. How Books Led a Young Jane Goodall to Live Among the Chimps 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The main character, Mars, is gender-fluid, and they have developed a keen awareness of threats and subtle aggressions, and a longing to have somewhere they can be accepted. 7 Terrifying Horror Novels Perfect for Teens 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

By that, I mean Ms. Silverman’s sense of how a stark and lonely landscape might indeed be a fertile petri dish for enterprising imaginations, turned in on themselves and longing for connection. Review: In ‘The Moors,’ Where Heathcliff Fears to Tread 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The latest restriction is that we can only go outside if walking a dog or for urgent supplies, so we are longing to run free in the countryside again. Lockdown escapes: where I’ll visit when this is over 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

Even the Devil, as Mr. Smith reminds us, has a human longing to be loved. Theater Review: ?The Witch of Edmonton?: A Supernatural Subject with Human Urges 2011-02-04T17:00:53Z

“I Wanna Be Sedated” is an “I’m sick of being on the road” song that’s hilarious where it could have been self-indulgent, mostly because nobody had ever sung so earnestly about longing for tranquilizers. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

It’s the longing for a homeland I left behind decades ago, one that I never got to know. Inspiration Information: 'The Last Illusion' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Few remember Elizabeth Akers Allen, but all adults recognize the longing she captures in just two lines: “Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight,/ Make me a child again just for tonight.” Perspective | In a time of crisis, poetry can help focus our fears and transform ‘noise into music’ 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

“What is our relation to longing for a past that is always past?” she said recently in an interview in New York. ‘Vertigo,’ Through Two Artists’ Eyes 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The popularity of such pictures well into the 20th century proves that they were not just a Victorian curio, but appealed to profound imaginative longings. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z

His time in Étretat was a transition, born of frustration and longing. Seattle Art Museum has a new Monet exhibition. Is it needed? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Writing my latest novel, I found myself going back to those topics and themes, that hunger to explore faith, doubt, spiritual longing — despite the equally powerful alarm bells ringing inside me about doing just this. Is Any Topic Off Limits When You Write for Teenagers? Maybe Just One 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

The would-be lovers in “Breathe In” exchange longing glances but no ravenous kisses. Movie Review: ‘Breathe In,’ a Tense Marital Drama 2014-03-27T22:54:05Z

Like much of the body art that dancers exposed for this article, they hint at a longing for stability and uplift, desires that reflect the realities of an unpredictable, competitive profession shaped by subjective standards. How ballet dancers flaunt — and hide — their tattoos on stage 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

“Tristan” — which is known for musical chromaticism and for a painfully stretched-out sense of longing — is also notorious for exhausting its musicians to the point of collapse and, in some cases, death. Books of The Times: To Wagner, With Love and Morbidity 2010-12-27T23:09:40Z

After an hour or so, I was overcome by a wistful longing – a desire to return to the places in his pictures, as if I actually knew them myself. Frieze 2012: my big art inspiration 2012-10-10T17:20:01Z

Their perseverative cycles of longing sound like the pressured speech of people driven mad by oppression. Review: In ‘The Last of the Love Letters,’ Passion Is Inescapable 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Talk with him about your deepest fears and deepest longings. Obsessed with high-school love 2013-03-06T01:00:00Z

He allows his thoughts to drift from desperation to longing, but he knows it all amounts to this “dreadful, gorgeous life.” In Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Thomas Murphy,’ a poet refuses to go quietly 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Little also alludes to mass-media saturation; a virtual-reality distancing between a soldier’s actions and their results; and jingoistic longing for military dominance. Music Review: ‘Soldier Songs’ at Pace University 2013-01-14T22:39:57Z

If you find yourself longing for a return to a time of grift and scandal, you could do worse than “Tammany Hall,” an immersive theatrical event at SoHo Playhouse. Review: ‘Tammany Hall’ Votes the Party Line 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

There are no evolving relationships, there’s no subtext about climate change or longing. From Minnesota, the sure, swift footing of ‘Stripe Tease’ 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

We need to sense some joy between them, as well as companionability and shared longing. My lover, my client 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

In each, Howe imbues her investigations of fragment and snippet with such longing that it is hard not to yearn, from one’s own desk, for deep encounter. A Poet of Found Language Who Finds Her Language in Archives 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

The reader is left in little doubt that the illness is psychogenic, the product of a lifetime's internal conflict – of longing for the freedoms his family raised him to despise. In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge – review 2013-07-06T08:01:07Z

But the film's purpose is not to revel in Abe's disillusionment or ridicule his longings. Don't underestimate this 'Dark Horse' 2012-08-02T20:12:04Z

What links Héctor with de la Cruz is a lurid story of passion, betrayal and longing. Review: ‘Coco’ Brings the Pixar Touch to Death 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Knowing the truth about what you believe and longing for the time before you knew it are not mutually exclusive states of being. “Woody Allen is a genius. Woody Allen is a predator”: Why Mariel Hemingway’s new revelation matters 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

It may appear that I’m disillusioned by my time in the commune, but the truth is I’m actually missing it and longing for it. ‘Everything was torn apart’: How director Thomas Vinterberg had to start his life all over again 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

There are many such moments of despair, longing and extraordinary beauty in Schubert’s final three sonatas, brooding and dramatic masterpieces written during the last few months of his life. Mitsuko Uchida and Schubert Sonatas at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-24T20:08:03Z

On the popular online message board Doll Forum, one man writes that, for him, sex dolls tap into his longing for being with “a woman who loves me for me”. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

A great deal of the best writing here is about the “longing and beauty and gloom” of popular music. Review: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Four’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

“You’ve never seen true longing until you’ve seen a theater of young girls gaze upon the opening moments of The Nutcracker.” Review | Lies, secrets and ‘The Nutcracker’: Megan Abbott’s suspense novel plumbs the dark side of dance 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

The cycle of choreography diffuses and grows with a similar reliability; just in time for a sharp contortion, a dancer’s longing transforms into something more ferocious. Dance Review | Stefanie Nelson Dance Group: ?Proximity Spiral? Seeks Fun With Numbers 2010-03-19T21:59:00Z

Vibeke’s sensual longing is a hunger that might offer deeper wisdom: “He’s a man for me, she thinks. … The insight is physical. The body can be trusted.” Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

We're reminded that we are watching great thea-tuh, staged by a prestigious company, rather than being titillated or moved by the longing and anguish and bile that courses through the play's triangle. Press views: Weisz and Craig in Betrayal 2013-11-04T11:37:56Z

Nostalgia was also always part of the deal, Ferry's wistful longing for the lost world of early Hollywood glamour a key facet of his lyrics. Roxy Music ? review 2011-01-26T18:55:26Z

This story covers one traumatic year in the life of the city, which is portrayed as a tacky, dead-end beach resort, from which everyone is longing to escape. Movie Review: Schizophrenia in Dustin Lance Black?s Film ?Virginia? 2012-05-17T23:03:55Z

He imagined these works as sensual material portals to faraway seas, calling them “a contemporary form of idolatry, a bulwark against longing.” Ashley Bickerton, Unflinchingly Honest About His Work and Illness 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

So it's a surprise when she talks so candidly about her longing for children – although when she does so, she's also talking about the imposed narrative of female identity. Playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz: 'I had evil thoughts as a child' 2013-01-20T19:59:01Z

I kept longing for some stillness, moments of quiet clarity. Oedipus ? review 2011-03-03T21:30:00Z

Even if the show remains evasive about Christ's divinity, the production taps into our residual memories of the New Testament and uses secular rhythms to awaken spiritual longings. Canadian theatre comes into its own 2011-08-01T15:35:18Z

But Ms. Leigh, an Australian novelist directing her first film, pays particular attention to the gap between Lucy’s status as an object of lust and the state of her own longing. | 'Sleeping Beauty': Julia Leigh?s ?Sleeping Beauty? - Review 2011-12-02T00:02:07Z

And seeing the list of Oscar nominees on Monday, I felt a stirring of wistful longing and curiosity in a place that's been dormant. This was the year of not watching any Oscar bait ... but hey, at least "Eurovision" was fun 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Yachine pines wistfully for an attractive neighborhood girl who notices him but is careful not to meet his longing looks for more than half a second. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

“We’ve really been longing just to see it on its feet to see what we have,” Crow says. Barry Levinson sings a new tune as ‘Diner’ heads to the stage 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

But she doesn’t quite understand the intense emotion — the longing, the meaning, the sense of identity — that Aksel attaches to memories of an earlier style of consumption. Shelf Life: Our Collections and the Passage of Time 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

In the unsent letters she writes to James during this embargo, Maggie struggles to find a theological framework for her longing and her pain. Jamie Quatro’s First Novel Centers on Religious and Sexual Passion 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Nothing else happened — except for Glazunov’s music lavishly conjuring all the longing between them and our view of a Provençal courtly garden at twilight. Review: Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Raymonda,’ Searching About for a Perfect Suitor 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Still longing to perform, he would frequent piano bars like Marie’s Crisis and the Monster after work. Seth Sikes Channels Judy Garland in Cabaret Act 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Clinton’s longing for an oral history conducted by Blair owed in part to her view that the people working for her husband were “just not good enough,” Blair wrote. From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

I'd sneak longing looks at people at other tables, eating shrimp. We'll always have Geneva: A tale of two sauces 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z

So a longing suffuses the festival, a sense among natives that they are re-embracing the progeny of people who departed long ago, often under duress. Who’s Irish Now? 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

From “Croz,” which was his return to making solo albums after 20 years, “Holding On to Nothing” meditates on time, longing, depression and persistence, feeling like “a stranger just passing through.” David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Instead of being contemptuous and sardonic, the portrait of inchoate adolescent longing in is poignant. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Hope,’ the Third Film in Ulrich Seidl’s Unblinking Trilogy 2013-12-16T22:48:24Z

Sex and the longing to have more of it. Review: In ‘10.000 km,’ Lovers an Ocean Apart Struggle to Connect 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

She delivers her first number — “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” — very quietly and with an intense longing that digs beneath its surface charm to find its stillness and steel. Review: Whose ‘Fair Lady’? This Time, Eliza’s in Charge 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Row is excellent throughout this book on the combined power and pathos of first-world longings. Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine,’ a Novel About Changing Race 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The best thing about 11/22/63 is King’s warm, precise portrait of the 1950’s, for which he clearly feels a powerful longing. In Stephen King?s Latest, Trying to Stop Lee Harvey Oswald 2011-11-02T15:57:51Z

I remember longing for a cage to sleep in. Gloria Steinem: ‘Go too far, or you’re not going far enough’ 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

The plea “What’ll I do with just a photograph to tell my troubles to?” inserted a note of anguished finality to a standard expression of romantic longing. Review: Maxine Linehan Transforms the Popular Into the Personal 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

Before she died, Byrne asked her about her life and used their conversations to help bring her, and what he called “her secret life of longing and yearning,” alive in his writing. This Time, He Stars In His Own Story 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

These punctuation marks continue through the day, and each time a similar sort of longing flares up in me. Drinking is a huge part of Thanksgiving — here's why I'm avoiding it 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Poor Spiel's letters were sometimes a wail of longing for lost happiness. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z

O’Hara is such a constant presence in “Love and Other Poems” that it’s hard to figure out whether Dimitrov’s tribute represents an act of longing or impersonation. To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York City 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

But a new myth inevitably takes its place, involving Cobain’s longing for a family and his despair when life with Love and their daughter, Frances, seemed untenable. Kim Gordon, Kurt Cobain, and Punk Myth-Making 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

A superior score by Dustin O’Halloran bridges the gap between classical and standard film music to sustain a mood of anxious longing. Movie Review: ‘Breathe In,’ a Tense Marital Drama 2014-03-27T22:54:05Z

The aesthetics of indie: the longing for a golden age, the melancholy, poverty chic, and the overall values of simplicity, autonomy and austerity. Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

Their cheeks and lips were naked, and something else in their faces was even nakeder, some longing and some fulfillment lying skin to skin and side by side. A Childhood in the Pro-Life Movement 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

He celebrated unabashed hedonism, sang of broken hearts and spiritual longing and had a mysterious personal identity that defied easy definition. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

But it also functions as a kind of self-help manual, forcing readers to examine their own longings, failings and assumptions about love. 2010-01-28T07:20:00Z

He dwells in an anxious limbo where the harsh realities of big-city life coincide with a childlike longing for a magical escape. Review: In ‘Kicks,’ the Promise (and Perils) of Those Air Jordans 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Over longing piano chords and Thorn's beautiful shrug of a voice first single, Oh! New music: Tracey Thorn ? You Are A Lover (Clock Opera Remix) 2011-03-21T16:55:02Z

She captured Elizabeth’s dignity, longing and regret in artful details, like a pristinely painful diminuendo on the words “Oh, rimembranza!” Mariella Devia Returns to New York in ‘Roberto Devereux’ 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Learning the arts of “evasion and deception” as survival tools when he was a boy and longing to belong to some legitimate, larger family, the young David Cornwell was a natural recruit as a spy. Le Carré, the Con Man’s Son: Writer, Liar, Survivor, Spy 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

“We are alive for such a short time,” Margo thinks, “and we spend it so unsatisfied, longing for what we can never have.” Francine Prose’s ‘Mister Monkey’ takes on the bananas world of children’s theater 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

The kiss transformed into something full of desperation and longing. Ben Daniels: the best performance I've ever seen 2011-07-09T23:05:55Z

Her hybrid, impressionistic style leaves details fuzzy and leans too easily on sentiment; yet it also understands immigrant longing as more complex and elusive than economic imperative. ‘I Carry You with Me’ Review: When You Can’t Go Home Again 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

The modifier "When it is peace" recurs at the end of the second sentence, heightening the sense of longing, with the "if" haunting the "when". Poem of the week: To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley 2012-11-14T10:20:03Z

"Hallelujah," after all, is at its heart about sexual vulnerability and longing. The criminal overuse of "Hallelujah" 2011-09-19T21:01:00Z

“It comes down to a longing for human contact,” she said. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

There's no longing for her old life, at least not yet. The eternal sadness of the child vampire 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

When a transmission like the one described in the poem happens in pop music, particularly fertile ground for intense longing of all kinds, we might hear a fan say, “That song saved my life.” The Art of Rock: Four Museums Explore How We Connect to Music 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

It professed a longing for no governments, no religion and no ownership of land or things. Archuleta's 'Imagine' performed well, but why must he change the lyric? 2010-04-11T20:31:00Z

But at their core, many of them urge people to become aware, without judgment, of the physical signals of hunger, environmental cues and emotional longings that prompt the thought “I want to eat.” How post-workout food rewards can sabotage your goals 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Illuminated in the blue glow of bubbling water and artificial light, the two women slowly registered each other with puzzlement, hostility and abject longing. Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer Lay ‘Killing Eve’ to Rest 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

In his own misty, grooving music, Mr. Turner exudes both composure and longing. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

There isn’t a plot, but there certainly is a story, as Rand enacts the patient’s frustration, the deadening and ineffective regimen of medication, the hope and fear and longing. Review | Opera needs to change. Prototype festival shows one new path. 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Denial and fear and excitement are transformed, in this story, into a tale of supernatural longing and horror. Don't Look Now and Roeg's red coat 2011-01-18T20:30:03Z

His poetry is self-searching, uneasy, shot through with his longing for love and his attempt to understand his own art, which he writes about almost as if someone else created it. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z

Whenever she returns from her spiritual, political and environmental disquisitions to the medical and personal heart of the story, the wet feeling of longing for significance that sometimes swamps the narrative dries right up. Review: Eve Ensler Goes Deep ‘In the Body of the World’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

"This Nearly was Mine," is a song of loss, of longing ... Broadway vet Brian Stokes Mitchell jazzes up SSO pops 2012-05-24T20:27:06Z

Every time I took it thereafter was a desperate attempt to recreate that first experience; a longing that met with ever-decreasing success. Patrick Melrose captures heroin addiction perfectly – my memories flooded back | John Crace 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Actually, it creates a stunning and chilling effect; when the fog eventually clears and you’re left with two bickering speakers, you can’t help longing for a little more theatrical magic. Dance Review: No Moving to Speak of, but Plenty of Speaking 2010-12-17T22:40:02Z

There is a longing for sun and southern climates. Stepping Out of Character and Starting a New Story 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Memories and recollections of skies – from my hometown Vancouver, from my travels, from films, photographs and paintings, historic and contemporary, including my own – were distilled into singular mental images that captured a feeling of longing. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z

This is no longer just about assimilation, it’s about longing and belonging, about being everything your parents are not, about not being your parents. Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z

Within these quick squalls of movement are flashes of anger, remorse, resignation and longing. Dance Review: Ending Up All Alone, and Making It Beautiful 2011-07-22T22:01:27Z

Klam’s fiction is rife with humanity, with people full of longing. “Wiggly meats”: Feminism, “transgressive sex” and the fiction of Matthew Klam 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

Ariel, Belle, and Jasmine were more demure in their longings, and sang in a register of English more readily amenable to translation. Translating 'Frozen' Into Arabic 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

And don’t forget to analyse your own part in this; for some people the state of longing – even over long periods – is delicious and sustainable. My partner refuses to have sex with me 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

The first, which she called reflective nostalgia, centers, she wrote, on “longing and loss, the imperfect process of remembrance.” Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a balm, a longing eye and a soft smile, a confident embrace. The Year in Music Videos 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

If films like “Reflections in a Golden Eye” and “Suddenly Last Summer” intimated their characters unspoken longings, television would struggle to make those desires overt. Pop culture still fails queer people: Sanitizing LGBT romance is a tradition Hollywood can’t seem to break 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

"It's a very vulnerable partnership. But in this, in every single scene, I only see her longing, like she's out of her body, her longing to be somewhere else; it just kills me." Reese Witherspoon has a lot invested in 'Wild' 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

Roy, particularly, shifts erratically from strained jokes to naked expressions of longing: Review | An African American couple torn apart by the justice system 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

The music quickly shifts between tenderness, longing, frustration and thwarted desire, undergirded by the earthiness of a Czech folk song. Momenta String Quartet shines in demanding program at National Gallery 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

A long, rich, expressive Varnam solo demonstrated a woman’s amorous longing for the god Shiva. Utsav, a Festival of Indian Dance and Music 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

“Lions” by Ski Marley plays over scenes of people protesting, police officers barricading, Jenner longing to join and, of course, everyone drinking Pepsi. “New level of wokeness to understand this”: New Pepsi, Kendall Jenner commercial leaves bad taste 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

When I’m abroad, I must always stop by an Asian grocery store to satisfy my longing for homey food. Works for the Now, by Queer Artists of Color 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

And yet, as capable as it turned out to be, “Star Trek: Discovery” has only satisfied part of the deeper longing. Perspective | TV needs a really great space saga. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ comes close, but the longing remains. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

As drifting and dreamy as its searching heroine, “My Friend Victoria” takes a graceful but unsatisfying stroll through the life and longings of a young black woman in contemporary Paris. Review: An Exploration of Race and Class in ‘My Friend Victoria’ 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

And when he does, what begins as a child’s plaintive longing becomes a double haunting, with resentments on both sides. Review: In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Son Takes the Stage 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

But perhaps no film encapsulates that longing to escape quite like "The Wizard of Oz." Why "A League of Their Own" goes over the rainbow 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

I was just about to express my disapproval when I realized I was actually leaning into the radio, longing helplessly for what came next. ‘The Song Machine’ review: How music studios have hooked us into listening 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

In all performing arts, but in dance especially, present performances of past works often fail to measure up to contemporaneous accounts, the memories of those who there or the longing of those who missed out. The Best Dance of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Ms. Barrio begins between the two singers, Carmina Cortes and Mayte Maya, who wail her longing as she mimes chores and dejection. Dance Review: Soledad Barrio & Noche Flamenca at the Joyce Theater 2013-12-09T21:15:18Z

Perhaps our respective wounds — the loss of a child, a father-shaped longing, the distinctive timbre suicide adds to grief — had found familiar counterparts. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

Michael Korie’s libretto could have been significantly culled; among other things, the subplot of Micòl’s brother, a closeted gay man longing for his former roommate as his health fails, could have been easily excised. Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

The ironically named Marie-Angèle has the makings of a bourgeois hypocrite of the purest type, and yet, like her friend, she is a child, powerless, swept by tides of feeling, devoured by curiosity and longing. Ignorance by Michèle Roberts - review 2012-05-25T21:55:01Z

There’s a persistent longing that threads through this book — not so much for the consumerist dream represented by Sherman Oaks, but for the secure relationships she saw her wealthy, white classmates taking for granted. Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Some days I find myself longing for the innocent friendships of yore. My friend told me not to freeze my eggs and now I'm childless 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Spurred by nostalgia, regret, longing and anger, each woman examines her memories. Interpreting the Interpreter: Who Was Lafcadio Hearn? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

It's all getting a bit much for our hero Tyler/Ricky/Brent/Hugo: his secret longings, his stubborn parents, that boy in the swimming team, the imminent school poetry contest. The top 10 gay movie cliches 2013-03-25T19:40:00Z

I’m tempted to dismiss my growing obsession with books about silence as a frivolous longing for “chicken soup for an angsty soul.” Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

“Your feelings of longing or melancholy are often battling ambient sounds,” she said. An Invisible Artwork Reminds Austria of Its Nazi Past 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Yet he is acutely sensual in his longings as he dreams of resting in his lover's arms, or of being the prisoner of an armed knight – a pun on the name Cavalieri. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z

As the eldest of four siblings who grew up in a cramped house, I was familiar with Henry's longing for freedom. How we made: Horrid Henry 2013-06-17T18:00:00Z

Hygge may be quintessentially Danish, but there is something utterly British about the nostalgic longing for the simple accoutrements of an earlier time – especially if it can be bought. The hygge conspiracy | Charlotte Higgins 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

The result is to draw out the song's sense of longing and escapism while simultaneously sounding close to defeat. Ane Brun – Feeling Good: New music 2013-05-21T06:00:00Z

Even as our politicians continue to recite the mantra of individual choice, the continued popularity of Christmas telly points to this longing for a collective life. One nation Christmas television 2010-12-20T22:00:01Z

"Do not the dark longings of Wagner's music instil a stirring in your nether regions?" Digested classic: Ann Veronica by HG Wells 2010-03-26T14:06:00Z

Her longing for home—for the South—is countered by her powerful, bitter and visceral feelings of repulsion. Reading Harper Lee in the wake of Charleston: Shame, defeat and the real tragedy of “Go Set a Watchman” 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Far from the madding crowd, within the realm of nature, the hero discovers the otherworldly heroine who satisfies his longing as the women of his own milieu do not. Dance Review: Vail Dance Festival Has an International Evening 2013-08-06T22:05:19Z

This is a band who speak of the longing for children, of the market crash, of houses falling down. Arcade Fire sound a funereal note in The Suburbs 2011-02-21T14:17:57Z

Using texts from an anthology of Iberian folk songs and poems translated into German, he created miniatures that are exquisitely charged with sensuality, longing and fin-de-siècle angst. Music Review: Angelika Kirchschlager and Ian Bostridge at Lincoln Center 2013-02-05T22:13:38Z

It’s a different kind of delving, this self-examination that must come with describing the feelings, longings and heartache that are part of my own experience. Diane Rehm on stepping away from the mic for her book: ‘I just had to write.’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Across selections from Chausson, Debussy, Poulenc, Mendelssohn, Richard Strauss and Alban Berg, Piau conjured a rarefied emotional world, suffused with wistful longing and serene melancholy, and leavened by a sense of wry detachment. French soprano’s serene concert at UDC is the stuff of dreams 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

Whatever we’re going through, if we’re going through hard times, people are desperate to still be loved and longing to be loved and liked. Five actors from wildly different TV comedies compare notes 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Nemo’s flight from the nest answers the primal childhood longing for autonomy, while Marlin’s panicked pursuit embodies the deepest anxieties of parenthood. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z

I was talking to somebody yesterday, and they just said the word “Williamsburg,” and I got such a pang of longing to be in Williamsburg. Jerry Seinfeld Is Making Peace With Nothing: He’s ‘Post-Show Business’ 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Ironically, longing for something seems to shrink its duration in the mind's eye. Why vacations feel like they’re over before they even start 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z

Registering the artifice in Hopper’s limpid art may free us to see a link between hotel rooms and painting itself: Both magnetize desire and a longing to escape. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Both “Pictures from Home” and “The Valley” probe the narrative possibilities and limitations of photography, and the longing summoned by a presiding American Dream. Sex and Longing in Larry Sultan’s California Suburbs 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

That Christmas left a strong impression and is responsible for my longing to escape for the holiday. Where Jonathan Adler, Simon Doonan, Lauren Graham, and Peter Som go to get away from it all 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

A once happily married couple find themselves longing to understand each other in the wake of a tragedy. The Fall Movie Preview list of films 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The problem with the ready availability of this old stuff — don’t even get me started on Internet streaming — is that it forces us into a wistful but abstract longing for what was. A Case of Retro TV Overload 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

In this particular song, Krishna expresses his longing for Radha, who refuses to see him. A Great Odissi Dancer Conjures Gods and Demons Alone 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

It's no wonder that longing and regret weigh on every scene. "Terriers": One of this fall's only gems 2010-10-27T18:45:00Z

Trump understands this longing for the hard hand of the despot. Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Her early recordings are her most radiant ones, steeped in the pensive, nostalgic longing that Brazilians call saudade. Astrud Gilberto: 6 Essential Songs 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

Now I am longing for the days when you merely had to sell your soul to appease commercial demands. Weingarten: Going native

The title alone says a lot: it is from the German word “ostalgie,” which represents a mood of regretful longing for the former, more stable order of things. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z

In “Courage,” which suggests bossa nova in both its melodic turns and its sense of longing, she is “Lost and overcome by the memory/Of everything we were but will never be.” Lianne La Havas Traces the Arc of a Romance 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

This is a pretty creative take on the simple, plaintive song on loving and longing. Rob Delaney's new releases review 2013-04-22T05:00:00Z

Instead, “Awkward” is a wry show about longing — for love, certainly, but also for consistency, that great intangible in the ever-morphing world of high school life. | 'Awkward': Teenager?s High-Five Is Plastered in Place 2011-07-18T22:00:24Z

Expect cutting-edge work in photography, video, sculpture and drawing, with an emphasis on themes of “belonging, longing or displacement.” Art exhibitions to check out in Seattle this fall 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The beauty conjured feelings of deep rapture, but also a simultaneous ache of longing. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Such projects may offer an alternative to blockbuster art, but they seem more an expression of longing for the days when nifty, mass-produced cultural artifacts were available at any neighborhood book or record store. In the galleries: A painter’s progress revealed 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Around this triangle of unrequited longing, the forest is alive with werewolves and the ghosts of the dead, their antics adding a Monty Python-esque lunacy that amuses and appalls in equal measure. Review: An Estonian Folk Tale Unfolds in ‘November’ 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

And the TWA Hotel still conveys that dormant, vestigial longing for better things. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

Most of us know what it’s like – the desperation, the longing. ‘I just knew he loved me. I could see it in his eyes’: can a psychologist cure lovesickness? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

The penultimate movement, “O Albion,” is a lush, longing hymn that evokes both Elgar and the aching Cavatina in Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13, Op. Music Review: Calder Quartet and Mostly Mozart Orchestra at Lincoln Center 2013-08-04T20:19:01Z

Accordingly, “Last Days in the Desert” works both as a timeless narrative about fathers and sons and as a deeply felt interpretation of obedience, self-sacrifice and longing for God’s voice. The rise of Christian movies for the rest of us 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

In Rolling Stone, Will Hermes calls it “one of the grimmest, loneliest LPs ever made. There are songs about shame and death, about violent longing, with melodies sometimes fragile, sometimes shattered.” John Cale’s new society: “There’s much more sophistication in hip-hop than in regular rock ‘n’ roll” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

Maybe he could see I was longing to make sense of things. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z

Mr. Hosokawa’s dreamy and unsettling opera, about two sisters who, long after their deaths, continue to be tormented by longing for the lover they once shared, is a work of subtlety and mystery. Music Review: ‘Matsukaze,’ an Opera of Love and Mourning 2013-07-19T20:26:39Z

But Ms. Plunkett’s marvelously open face lets us read every nuance of her character’s pain and longing. Review: In ‘What Did You Expect?,’ a Potluck of Election-Year Anxiety 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Doré replies, and we hear four decades of a mother’s longing in her words. Review: Naomi Wallace’s ‘Night Is a Room’ Unfurls a Complex Reunion 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z

“Krypton was a lost paradise, a wonderland of vast science, firefalls and jewel mountains. Superman was always longing to return to his home world.” Superman Turns 80. The Red Trunks Still Fit. 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Green’s sensibility—wispy longing, self-deprecating charm—finds its proper correlative in mini-books. Are Tiny Books a Sign of the Twee-ification of Literary Culture? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The latter was the night’s peak, the sound of nerves frayed to raw from the repeated pull of longing, rendered in tortured whisper. Sufjan Stevens, a haunting presence at Constitution Hall 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

And in his pursuit of the monster, he does what I have been longing for him to do: He whips out his cellphone camera. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10, Episode 3: Mulder Rediscovers His Monster Mojo 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Her piano-driven “Originals” consists of emotional, intimate soul tunes oozing with love and longing, while “Unlocked” showcases upbeat, more clubby pop versions of the same tracks. Pop superstar Alicia Keys unveils new album ‘Keys’ in Dubai 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

A wistful longing for something that may never return. How I learned to cope with chronic pain 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

“The Band’s Visit,” a gentle show about longing, loneliness and the Middle East, triumphed over three much better-known productions to win the Tony Award for best new musical Sunday night. Tony Awards 2018: ‘The Band’s Visit’ and ‘Harry Potter’ Prevail 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

Maybe it was that this longing for home — a core sentiment of Shadid's memoir — seems such a mystery to me. 'House of Stone': a vagabond reporter's longing for home 2012-03-01T00:10:04Z

In this exhibition, ideas around longing, memory, and exile resonate and subvert traditional notions of a singular place of origin. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z

In my office, I cried alone, first in anger at him for leaving us, and then out of a long-quashed longing. Hearing His Voice Changed Everything 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adams was singing about travels and separations, about love giving way to loneliness, about longings and failings: perpetual estrangement amid rare moments of comfort. Music Review: Ryan Adams at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-07T22:57:44Z

Contrast these seasoned pros with their nominated younger compatriots and you'll find an acting style that is less conscious of the audience and more hermetically attuned to a character's longings and ambitions. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

In Act 2, the mood turns, engendering earnest songs of longing and regret. At Village, ‘The Tutor’ makes music of literary, familial angst 2014-03-26T00:49:46Z

Back in the kitchen, grandma would freeze excess berries for the winter days when we'd be longing for summer again. The bourbon-infused blueberry compote on this airy no-bake cheesecake is a star in its own right 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

“In all the good times, I find myself longing for change,” they both sing in the refrain. Shallow: How Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper made the defining song of 2018 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

But what does that matter as long as it creates great literature, quivering with ambivalence, full of longing for meaning, which, if none is found, it creates itself? Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

It is sad, loving, lonely, longing and strong. The artists' artist: children's authors 2011-07-06T21:30:01Z

As you pass by the familiar chain stores and well-heeled gentry, beware: a longing may set in for the raw and pulsating Naples to the east. Elena Ferrante's Naples – a photo essay 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

"I still have a weird and slightly confusing longing for Matt Smith, but I've accepted he's gone, and Capaldi is resplendently terrifying and entertaining," he said. Doctor Who: How was Peter Capaldi's debut series? 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

During the event’s most escapist moments, anyone longing for a dose of reality would have had more luck finding it in the virtual world. Cold war experiments and storybook monsters - back to Venice's VR island 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

In that work, which ranges meditatively over philosophy, history, art, literature and the experience of displaced persons, she explored the web of memory and mythologizing that underpins the human longing for vanished worlds. Svetlana Boym, 56, Scholar of Myth and Memory, Dies 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

But by the movie's end, you realize that his desperation veils a rush of longing. Pattinson Packs a Punch In Good Time 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

So there's the answer, for those of you longing to escape your lives of urban squalor. "The Fabulous Beekman Boys": Can farming cure a midlife crisis? 2010-06-16T12:01:00Z

Late in life and widowed, Dad’s wanderlust became wistful longing. How I broke our family’s road-trip tradition and ventured west of the Mississippi 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

In “Piano Phase,” the two women periodically pull up short, and their swinging limbs, slowing as they fight momentum, suggest something like longing. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Reprises Her ‘Fase’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

“He had begun to feel the first stirrings of it,” he writes of Green as a teenager, “the longing to transform himself into someone new, that special American itch for the future.” This Novel Revisits a Power Broker Who Trod Lightly and Left a Big Footprint 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Suárez suffers with a dignity reminiscent of Bette Davis and other great screen heroines of the past, even as she surrenders to a longing that borders on mania. Review: Another Woman on the Verge in Almodóvar’s ‘Julieta’ 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

Is she longing for more, or worried about it being too much? The Playlist: Britney Spears Puts on a Show and Tove Lo Plays it Cool 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Michael Kiwanuka’s second album, “Love & Hate,” is a sustained, stylized plunge into despair: plaints of isolation, doubt, lovelessness, racial injustice, longing, hopelessness and a certain resolve despite it all, often set to mournful minor chords. Michael Kiwanuka’s ‘Love & Hate’ Plunges Into Despair, With a Retro Feel 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

An ache of unending solitude — and a longing for connection — infused every movement in their “Menagerie.” ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stark Vampire Love Story 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Things work best when Ms. Williams takes the lead — as on “Midnight Highway,” a gem of bittersweet longing, written with Julie Miller. Review: New Albums From Midnight Ramble Veterans, Including Amy Helm 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

Would unquestioning obedience really answer your deepest longings? Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z

"I was longing for my Texas roots. I think that's where that came from ... finding a way to bring country back into the mix, or realizing that it had been there all along." "Come Away With Me" at 20: Norah Jones reflects on "hopeful, romantic" record but won't call it jazz 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

In our doomed dance, Philip saw this longing and gallantly tried to become that Baba-figure for me. Divorce from my best friend 2013-02-12T01:00:00Z

But I felt starved for affection, and was stifling a longing for him to hold and kiss me again. The Man in Xinjiang: A Frightening Experience in Rural China 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

I think it’s that they understand this other language Philip and I shared, the language of pain, of homesickness and divorce, the language of unexpected longing. Divorce from my best friend 2013-02-12T01:00:00Z

He’s on his way to a moral awakening in a story laced with Oedipal overtones and giddy with longing and smut. | 'Cedar Rapids': An Innocent Abroad, at a Convention in Iowa 2011-02-10T22:17:34Z

Bissinger seems unsure what it might look like, especially since his aims and desires, unlike what is presented as Jenner’s unidirectional longing for transition, are multifarious. The Soul-Searching of Buzz Bissinger 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

The show’s fair-to-middling quality is ultimately part and parcel of its value as a collective expression of aesthetic longing. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z

Within all that composure is the testimony of a man longing for a far kinder world and for the familiar places he had left behind. Playlist: Psychedelia of Many Colors, Doo-Wop in Bluesy Shades 2011-08-06T20:30:28Z

But there is surely something a little unusual about longing, at the age of 17, to sew up the mouths of dead people. Why Prince Charles has to keep his views to himself 2010-10-08T06:00:00Z

Through all its convolutions “The Getty Address” conveyed a paradoxical longing for something natural: not necessarily simple but eternal. Music Review | Dirty Projectors: Indie-Rock on a Quest, With Woodwinds, Brass and Strings 2010-02-22T05:52:00Z

I find myself longing for something like “It was nice and nothing changed.” William Goldman’s Strange, Sad, Captivating Children’s Book About a Girl and Her Blanket 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

More often they move with calculated tentativeness, in reaching gestures that summon infinite, thwarted longing. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z

It wasn't Warsaw, or Hamburg; but the overwhelming experience for most of its inhabitants must have been deprivation and dread – a longing for the horror to finish, so that real life could begin again. The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War – review 2013-01-18T09:00:02Z

This track also expresses the feelings of longing experienced by Doom, or rather Dumile, an ocean away from his wife. Doom: 'It's all new, all fun' 2012-08-16T13:35:39Z

After eight weeks locked down in Valley Stream, L.I., he was longing for home. Don’t Ask Shaggy to Touch the Mic at a Wedding 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

"It's a very vulnerable partnership, and in every single scene I only see her longing to be somewhere else, like she's out of her body, it just kills me." Director Jean-Marc Vallee is on a 'Wild' ride in Hollywood 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

The evening began promisingly enough, as the men entered in dresses and wigs, spreading tinsel from bowls and singing about being in one place while longing to be in another. ‘Stardust’ Makes Debut at Queer New York Arts Festival 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Though both Olive and Henry surrender to longing and contemplate disruption, their love is real. Deceptively simple 'Olive Kitteridge' unfolds as work of art 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The story closes with his longing for a day when they can pass back and forth between countries the way he can. Picturing the Power of Community 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

There’s something about Ferrari DNA that communicates a longing — for me that translates to wondering about the engine note that’s rumored to be as dramatic as a Verdi opera on the race track. 2013 Ferrari F12 Berlinetta : Precious Metal 2012-08-24T18:33:10Z

Learning the plot of “Allied” inspired in me an only half-sarcastic longing for the era when the United States actually fought against Nazis, rather than forming a government with their support. In “Allied,” Empty Nostalgia for American Heroes 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

The energy and anger of youth-oriented cinema was in stark contrast to the lush melodramas, saturated with longing and Technicolor, which were popular elsewhere. From Godzilla to Some Like it Hot – why the 1950s is my favourite film decade 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

I searched and searched until the searching broke me open with longing. My obsessive quest to solve the mystery of a missing Virgin Mary 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

The New York hotel was a perfect place for anyone longing for a new identity or reality. The Robert Mapplethorpe photo you haven't seen: The one he took of me 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Irwin Shaw captured its wispy allure in his classic short story, “The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,” using the dress to conjure a mood of diffuse urban longing. Keeping Cool, Fashionably 2011-07-20T21:59:08Z

Intense emotion, unsurprisingly, suffuses these writings, as does longing for our prior, unthinking ease of connection and closeness. Review | Ninety writers offer their thoughts on life during a pandemic 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

Knowing where we come from is a deep human longing. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

The spare poems of the Therigatha, with their longing for transcendence and their glimpses of ordinary life, may travel easily across the millenniums. Murty Classical Library Catalogs Indian Literature 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Moments of fervor also offered glimpses into the deep longing that a singer must also convey with this character. Review: Anna Netrebko Rings in the Year With a Met Gala 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

Also one of the most beautiful: a simulated-reality fairytale loaded with longing and despair, but in which love eventually overcomes loneliness. Charlie Brooker: 'Happy? I have my moments' 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Sex includes shame and humiliation and fantasies and longing. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z

A childish reaction, but perhaps it caught something of the expedition's own longing for treats. Rewatching a film 50 years on showed me something about modern memories 2012-12-28T16:45:01Z

Its central, compelling puzzle is Brennan-Jobs’s continuing need to justify not just her father’s behavior but her longing for his love. “Small Fry,” Reviewed: Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s Mesmerizing, Discomfiting Memoir 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

The piercing cries of “Jerusalem!” seem to express both a longing for escape and the messianic tendencies in Benjamin’s unorthodox thought. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

The voices of these two fine artists blended affectingly as they conveyed the hesitant longing of this lovely duet, supplely conducted by Fabio Luisi, who drew a crisp and stylish overall performance from the orchestra. Opera Review: DiDonato and Camarena Shine in ‘La Cenerentola’ at the Met 2014-04-22T09:30:43Z

Home and distance, longing and mortality are the polarities in the lyrics. Review: The Lumineers Return, Weary and Disillusioned 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

She is a Sad Girl, claiming our sympathy, but her longing contains something malignant, even deranged. In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Their idealism can be defined as a simple longing for the opportunity to live a creative, fulfilled life. Isabel Toledo’s inauguration wardrobe for Michelle Obama exuded the optimism of a historic moment 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

She gets the structure and pacing just right, but throughout this book I found myself longing for a narrator with more artistry — someone with greater eloquence, more tonal sophistication, a lighter touch. Review: ‘Becoming Nicole,’ a Young Boy’s Journey Into Girlhood 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

“I’m really interested in this longing for the idolized American dream; this longing to go back home to a land that isn’t ours, that is a home that was never ours,” Ms. Her said. A Minnesota Exhibit Framed Around Longing for Home 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

This longing for before always saddens me because it makes the present seem even worse. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

All those em dashes in her verses — do they represent a breathless rush to be heard? — or a longing for the silences that fall between words? ‘Dickinson’ Is an Offbeat Literary Origin Story, Written in Fire 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

So longing are the shows for their crowds that they have grasped for imitations. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

“Scruples” contains so many delicious descriptions of garments that you may find yourself longing to pet its pages. Revisiting Judith Krantz’s “Scruples,” a Novel with a Passion for Clothes 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

For all their variety, many of the pieces sing in a similar key, in the note of orphanhood, of complicated longing. A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Fado, the Portuguese tradition of elegant, emotive songs filled with tragedy and longing, was named to Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in late November. Music Review: Caman? Sings Fado at BAM in Next Wave Festival - Review 2011-12-04T23:16:02Z

When Ms. Roden talks about her childhood, you can hear the longing in her voice, not just for the food but for the entire way of life. Traveling the World for Recipes, but Always Looking for Home 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

“He felt an irresistible longing for lightness — it was a quality, he realized only now, that had been alien to him all his life.” Is Nicole Krauss’s new novel an act of literary revenge? 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Focus on the longing, let your mind contemplate the flavour, the smell, the sweet jolt of dark liquid energy. Jittery, anxious, fatigued? You could have ‘caffeine use disorder’ 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Immediately after Donald Trump is elected president, Jarecki’s camera gazes for the first time out of the back window, throwing a longing look at the landscape, as though bidding farewell to the US. Wheel life: the strange power of films set inside cars 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

I feel something that I haven’t for a while: an electricity, a fizzing in the bones, that longing to see someone. 'The clock of his life was counting down' – loving and losing my ex 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

I do not judge, but I show how people behave in their longing for happiness. Ulrich Seidl: 'Those who say I despise people do not understand me' 2013-06-13T13:00:02Z

The regret and longing are moving at first, then things take a more comical turn. 'I had this image of my husband making love to a tree': directors on filming shorts for Netflix's Homemade 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Around the same time, a teenage Kim Gordon was living in comparatively suburban west L.A., longing for life in the canyons where the music “represented this very free and dreamy lifestyle,” she says. Kim Gordon Talks About Her Favorite Song 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Was all this refinement, all this decadence, this misanthropy and disillusionment, were all these religious agonies and scruples merely the sublimation of a longing for the sedate pleasures of a bourgeois life? Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Submission’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Even in fairly tranquil mother-daughter bonds there are flourishes of longing, resentment and tenderness that no sensible person would ever try to chart. Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel – review 2012-05-24T08:00:02Z

In their softer mode, they caress the soul with the bittersweet longing known as saudade. Stacey Kent Performs With Marcos Valle at Birdland 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Muster the money troubles, the love troubles, the antic clowning, the bone-crushing despair, the inchoate longings for art or truth or just a trip to Moscow. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

"I'm not a religious man, but it's a longing." Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z

These fictional scenarios are utterly convincing and fill us with as much confusion, fear and longing as they do Amy. The Multiverse Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be in ‘Come With Me’ 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

The production opens up a hollow void between throbbing bass tones and just enough single notes to sketch the rhythm and harmony; Thorn’s voice fills it with melancholy longing. Everything But the Girl’s Long-Awaited Return, and 12 More New Songs 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

The layers of Candace’s distinctive personal history are peeled away slowly, imitating the tentativeness and ambivalence with which many second-generation immigrants reveal themselves, caught between the desire to belong and the longing to be known. Ling Ma’s “Severance” Captures the Bleak, Fatalistic Mood of 2018 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

The actress performs a gorgeous rendition of “New York, New York” as a plaintive ballad not of ambition but of longing, and like her co-star, she’s on full-frontal view here. Shame: Michael Fassbender's Naked Launch 2011-12-01T09:55:12Z

She urges artists to own the taint of their artifice, which, she writes, expresses “something deeply authentic—the longing to glorify, to immortalize, to preserve.” Leslie Jamison and the Anxiety of Authorship 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Although van Gogh traveled far to discover the right effects, the right light and the right subjects for his paintings, all the while he was longing for a sense of home. Touring Europe in the Footsteps of van Gogh 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

But he was particularly fine when passions calm for a while and the two lovers sink into Wagner’s nocturne, longing to be eternally united in death. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Takes a Big Step Toward ‘Tristan’ 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

This was another way I was able to connect with her—through our longing for a world that no longer exists. This Week in Fiction: Victor Lodato on the Short Story as a Fling 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Kwon's precise command of her story's unfolding into what we know from the beginning will end in flames keeps the pages turning, while her devastating language makes even the quietest moments flicker with intense longing. What to read next: 5 recommended books for back to school season 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

This novel’s cast grows epic, but McCracken is always most impressive when she works small, when she is describing movie kisses or corsets or simply loneliness and longing. Elizabeth McCracken’s First Novel in 18 Years Has Whimsy to Spare 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Slowly, we also get the intimate details of their life together that the director is longing for. ‘Next Life Might Be Kinder’: Howard Norman’s riveting exploration of grief, loss and truth

Shuya is the evil genius of the duo, a budding sociopath driven by a desperate, misguided longing for attention stemming from an unhappy childhood. Kanae Minato's 'Confessions' hits its mark with a vengeance 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

It's studded with original detail, like the moment when, as they reach for some defining statement of longing, Nuñez places her hand over Pennefather's mouth, initiating a long, reverberant stillness. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z

The lead singer Greg Barnett sings of the king he once was — “Lost in a picture frame/The way my body used to behave” — with both longing and residual verve. The Playlist: Barack Obama’s Summery Playlists and Green Day’s Fiery Return 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Perhaps this piece was about longing after all. From Minnesota, the sure, swift footing of ‘Stripe Tease’ 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

“Up from Under” is a gentle, acoustic song from “Breach,” which found Dylan exploring some of his enduring imagery and storytelling by way of a longing melody. Jakob Dylan has always been part cowboy-troubadour, part rabbi 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

They register each other’s presence almost exclusively in imagined interludes, and yet the communion of their longing is palpable. Theater Review: ‘Marry Me a Little,’ Sondheim Songs, at Clurman Theater 2012-10-04T20:43:21Z

As interpreted by the composer and director, the plays explore spirituality as a kind of longing, almost a love affair, between mortal and spirit beings. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

The direction is uniformly creamy, lacking the stilled fury and terrifying resonance of the empty eternity that the story depends on, devoid of the frustrated longing and existential horror that Jennie bears. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Oh, about “longing looks back”: I have the same gene as every composer EVER, and I need to write an Orpheus opera. The Emails Behind the Opera ‘Eurydice’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Even the grueling agony of "Breaking Bad" and the dark wit of "Dexter" have nothing on Matthew Weiner's exquisitely rendered portrait of fragile souls trapped in the lives of repressed longing. The Emmys: Who should win? 2010-08-28T00:20:00Z

That longing isn't evident in Hoffer's diva showiness, which seems more suited to the drag rock musical "Hedwig and the Angry Itch" than the world of "Spring Awakening." 'Spring Awakening': powerful passion at Balagan 2012-01-09T22:37:03Z

Yet the real agony, which Mirza plumbs with such heartbreaking sympathy, is Amar’s incurable longing for the balm of belief and the embrace of his devout parents. Review | Sarah Jessica Parker thinks she knows what you should read. She’s right. 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

As young ballet stars they show a longing to push past the point of comfort in their roles, especially those as fraught with history and emotion as Romeo and Juliet. Dance Review: Natalia Osipova as Ballet Theater?s Juliet at the Met 2010-07-11T21:59:00Z

Below it unfolds a springtime scene of delicious desire and longing. SAM’s ‘Peacock in the Desert’ opens the doors of our perception to the marvelous 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

And there’s this enduring longing to relieve myself of the weight of my silence, my slow-burning despair. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

“Ben-Hur” wasn’t the first time directors skirted censorship in order to suggest the unspoken longings between two characters. The straight-washing of “Ben-Hur”: Remake of the ’59 epic drops gay subtext — and beefs up religious themes 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

It is a longing bound to be frustrated. Walt Whitman and the Essence of Opera 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

This combination of the idea of support, or magical lack of support, with a longing for sustenance, may have something to do with thoughts of home, where we are raised up and nourished. Yasuo Kuniyoshi retrospective a testament to artist’s vision 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The repetitions here acquire an emotional resonance, and the geometric forms, stretched, gain a new tone: longing. Review: Wendy Whelan and Maya Beiser’s Meditation on 9/11 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

From Eliot’s letters, we can’t help but imagine what kind of emotional kindling his unfulfilled longing for Hale might have provided for some of his best work, written during a bad marriage. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

A combination of hormones and friends brought us together, and after nearly six months I feel a glow when I’m with my crush, and a longing when she is gone. 'Painful, exhilarating, overrated': 16-year-olds on being in love 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Aside from longing for better distribution, Cuban producers are anxious for regulations that would let them establish private production companies and seek permits without going through the film institute, whose bureaucracy eats into meager budgets. Digital Technology Is Making Its Mark in Cuba 2013-01-05T00:24:27Z

The novella's strength is in its precise rendering of decaying bodies — both heavenly and corporeal — while maintaining a sense of ever-present longing. Sarah Gerard's debut, 'Binary Star,' radiates beauty 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The producers underlined the song’s mood of loneliness and longing by shooting Ms. Lucas silhouetted against the Radio City Music Hall audience. Critic’s Notebook: The Tonys Show Celebrates the Stage Without Any Real Theater 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

As technology becomes obsolete, it becomes nostalgic too: longing – not exactly for a device, but for a time. RIP Apple iPod: As technology becomes obsolete, it becomes nostalgic 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

And the emotional fuel for Don's sudden decision arises out of displaced longing for Anna, his only friend, whom he didn't even see before she died. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z

There is no longing like the look in Max's eyes, stung with the knowledge that she's better than the other women but it will not matter due to the segregated teams. Why "A League of Their Own" goes over the rainbow 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

The “dark” and “shameful” desire to which Heti admits is the longing to be treated — for a short time, and only during sex — as a sex object by a man she finds attractive. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

Arms rise and frame the face to show longing, headiness, joy or despair. Dance Review: A ?Requiem? Unwraps Stillness Swathed in Silk 2011-02-16T22:54:59Z

Offutt’s experience was more fraught than most, but nonetheless there is a touching universality to his tale and its mix of longing and despair. ‘My Father, the Pornographer’: A literary detective story 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

It's rich and dense, but never less than compelling in a revival that boasts some fine performances, particularly from Kate Abrahams, whose grave Mrs Snelgrave seethes with quiet longing. One Flea Spare ? review 2011-04-06T17:58:40Z

Reduced to those longings, are any of us so dissimilar? A Girl Goes Missing. A Loner Takes Her Place. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

For a moment, there was silence in the hall, as everyone understood the pain and suffering of South Africa and the longing for the return of the man imprisoned on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela. Paul Simon on Mandela’s Role in ‘Graceland’ 2013-12-13T22:42:19Z

Murugan traces the entire life of his little goat — her despair, her small acts of heroism, her longing — with Chekhovian clarity. One of India’s Most Original and Controversial Novelists Returns With a Powerful Parable 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Mary’s self-disgust and her longing for parental love are channelled in the monster’s anguished plea to its creator for compassion and care—a plea that Victor Frankenstein rejects. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Ah yes, that old longing for the 9 to 5. Working 9 to 5 2011-07-30T23:04:05Z

Most opera composers would jump into action at a line like this, letting the orchestra surge with all the character’s half-understood fears, memories and longings. Review: ‘Appomattox’ at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

"Masters" was frank and funny and quite sincere in the way it looked at human longing and the need for connection. Early Emmy drama odds breaking 'Breaking Bad's' way 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Norman is less interested in generating page-turning suspense than he is in investigating and re-creating the comfort, longing and nostalgia that detective fiction provides for its consumers. An attack on a World War II photograph leads to revelations in ‘My Darling Detective’ 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

“I guess I would say I’m hoping for it, I’m longing for it,” Shuzhen said. Best Supporting Grandma? For ‘The Farewell,’ an Oscar Campaign Begins 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z

"She took that longing for a safe, secure, loving family and did the extreme." "Flowers in the Attic" writer on "The Origin" ending, whose story needs telling and that swan bed 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Murugan traces her entire life: her despair, her longing, her love affairs. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

It's a subtle, old-fashioned drama with comedic undertones, revealing repressed longings among the uneasy staff of a small British aluminum import firm during a terrible economy. Review: The wolf is at the door in 'Cornelius' 2013-06-12T22:22:08Z

The effect is remarkable in that we’re introduced to all the strange and cool differences of your invented world while we're simultaneously longing for it as something irretrievably gone. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

The story is simple to the point of foolish, but the belief in love is in the way it's lit and filmed and in the intense longing of the performances. The films that time forgot 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z

They harmonize in breathy voices, singing calmly analytical lyrics about romance, longing and separation. Week Ahead: May 30 ? June 5 2010-05-28T15:11:00Z

In an interview here, Ms. Miller said she remembered hearing the big bands from the fire escape window every night and longing to be inside the club. From Harlem to Herrang: An Original Lindy Hopper Blooms in Sweden 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

His voice is tired and fried with longing. Thom Yorke’s “Anima” Is His Best Solo Album 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

Roth’s smash hit, “Portnoy’s Complaint,” published 10 years later, features a young Jewish bachelor, Alexander Portnoy, who is consumed with sexual longing and frustration. Philip Roth’s journey from “enemy of the Jews” to great Jewish-American novelist 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

The moralistic conclusion of the film contains its subversive antithesis, its politically unacceptable longing for the past. What “Neighbors” and “Chef” can teach us about white male privilege 2014-05-10T16:30:00Z

As the diurnal cycle completed, I found myself longing for a different story. ‘Tejas Luminous,’ Featuring Malini Srinivasan 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

Though the production is cleaner and more minimal than on her previous albums, these songs are grounded in deeply felt loneliness and longing. Best albums of 2016: 10 fantastic artists create an unusually lush and diverse selection of important music 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

I think it’s a longing for the days when they would freely travel to the U.S. Ray Magliozzi of ‘Car Talk’ Takes to the Road in Cuba 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

After learning about so many works being made by artists in different places, curator Darling began to notice thematic threads that run through the work: freedom, longing, loss, desire and alienation. Art preview: SAM's Kurt Cobain show traces the global influence wielded by a native son 2010-05-05T22:14:00Z

On that knife edge of yearning and longing is this whole film balanced. Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin?s Russia 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

Beyond that point, you may need poetry or the equivalent to map a territory so ambivalent and contradictory and full of longing. Greg Jackson on the Dialogue Between Myth and Reality 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Still, Judis would surely wave aside these objections as typical liberal fastidiousness, untuned to the more elemental, raw longings of national identity that liberals need to accommodate fast. Explaining Trump, Brexit and Other Expressions of Nationalism 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

These two books express those simple frustrated longings that felt like the two halves of my deepest self with honesty, poignancy, and not a false note. Amid depression, bleak stories can be as consoling as self-help 2013-02-04T14:39:32Z

Its sense of longing for home and memories of the land and people left behind mean the song has strongly resonated with Irish emigrants throughout the century. Danny Boy at 100 2013-11-10T21:39:11Z

He writes that Republicans are better at fighting to win, and there is a wistfulness to his unstated longing for a similar sense of tribal loyalty on the left. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

How much do they have to do with her longing for Catholic community? Review: In ‘Scissoring,’ Visits From Ghosts of a Closeted Past 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

The teenagers in “The Myth of the American Sleepover,” David Robert Mitchell’s lovely debut feature, are linked in a great chain of liking, which is their euphemism for longing. | 'The Myth of the American Sleepover': The Night Belongs to Teenage Yearning 2011-07-21T22:06:02Z

Drake described gender dysphoria as a “deep longing to be comfortable”. 'I just want to see the person I always saw in my head': the story of a face 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

By the time my friend Mary Beth Edelson, an artist, asked me this question, my husband, Heinz, and I had been married for seven years, hoping, then longing, to be parents. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

Singles stared absently into the eyes of strangers on Zoom, longing to be touched. My Choice Isn’t Marriage or Loneliness 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

The novel is infused with longing and rich with detail about the social reforms of the Victorian era, the quest for rights and freedom for women and slaves, for the disabled and the poor. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman

Rather, they sublimate themes from earlier Rautavaara vocal works, weaving a web of memory and longing. A Composer’s Notes Echo After His Death 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

You keep longing for an adaptation by somebody such as Polly Teale or Helen Edmundson, with a matching production that would not just do justice to the narrative but also to its imaginative theatrical possibilities. Goodnight Mister Tom - review 2011-02-06T18:06:26Z

I found myself longing for a few more unsettling spikes of intellect and feeling. Books of The Times: ?The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,? by Stephen Greenblatt 2011-09-27T21:00:22Z

I know he was longing to come back and work here again.  Corin Redgrave: a tribute 2010-04-07T15:44:00Z

But the Mason marriage also suggests an allegory of the West itself, which Stegner saw as perpetually and fatally rived between a destructive, antisocial individualism and a too often stymied longing for stability and community. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

During the Madwoman’s aching aria of longing for her son, Mr. Bell slowly circles the flutist as their quivering music intertwines. Critic’s Notebook: Mark Morris Directing Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2013-07-30T20:59:50Z

Dear Heloise: Now that the holidays are over, many of us are longing for spring and planting our gardens. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Time to ponder your garden 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

There is a unifying spirit in the songs, a spirit that conjures senses of longing, melancholy and hope. Review: Idan Raichel Project builds global unity 2013-06-04T16:54:11Z

It's chillwave disco, shinily produced but with a nostalgic patina to convey a longing for a musical past and a sense of regret that a genre's heyday is over. New band of the day – Poindexter (No 1,393) 2012-11-12T17:17:50Z

Glances of longing and sweetness turn tedious; there’s too much acted emotion and not enough action. Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Known as the Screaming Eagle of Soul for his serrated cries of pain and longing, Mr. Bradley released his first album, “No Time for Dreaming,” in 2011 at the age of 62. Charles Bradley, a Late-in-Life Soul Music Star, Dies at 68 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

In his review in The New York Times, A. O. Scott called it “a thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song.” What’s on TV Thursday: The Critics’ Choice Awards and ‘S.W.A.T.’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The song has no bridge; instead, Berlin travels up the scale during each verse and then immediately repeats it to enhance the feeling of longing. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

A movie is the thing we used to go to, a now-forbidden destination — discrete and self-contained — we remember with longing. Perspective | What is a movie? With theaters shuttering, the question gets real. 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

This was the same land I’ve now seen for decades through car windows, yet it looked wholly unfamiliar, a place longing to be explored. Can you plan a 2017 vacation with a 40-year-old travel guide? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Then there’s a third group, which gazes at the day with an uncomfortable blend of longing and impatience. Cultural Studies: Helping a Gay Child to Come Out 2012-10-05T20:07:11Z

He's kind of spiky and edgy, but filled with this desperate longing to connect with another human being. How "Endeavour" dries out the heroic drunk detective myth 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

His poems are laden with longing for the sights and smells of the land his parents left behind. Richard Blanco, 2013 Inaugural Poet 2013-01-09T04:13:30Z

The poems were funny and bitter, some fizzed with anger, others ached with longing and hurt. Tom Bidwell survived cancer at 15. Can he now win an Oscar? 2011-02-24T20:30:00Z

In it, Job speaks of both longing for God and being terrified of Him. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

“In the thousands of comments, people seem to be yearning and longing for their own lost childhoods, and the childhoods of their children, which are so dominated by screens,” Welsh told the Guardian. Learning curve: video of children sliding into mud at pre-school goes viral 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

It may help you understand your own suffering and longing. I never got over my first love 2012-07-26T00:00:00Z

In these relationships, God will keep alive the world's longing to be "very good". The Book of Genesis, part 4: The problem and the answer 2011-01-03T10:00:02Z

But the novel never feels anything less than captivating because Winman creates such a flawless illusion of spontaneity, an atmosphere capable of sustaining these characters’ macabre wit, comedy of manners and poignant longing. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

The last line of “The Great Gatsby” describes the current carrying ships ceaselessly into the past, but I wouldn’t let Caleb drag me back into those old struggles and adolescent longings. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

Still, I found myself longing for a theory that harmonized the ideas of informality, irony, variety, and emotion. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

This second collaboration by the award-winning team of Lê and Santat touches that sweet spot between children’s “anywhere but here” longings and the everyday joys and heartaches of sibling rivalry. 8 Picture Books That Let Young Minds Wonder and Wander on Their Own 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

This misguided longing to be a king who is more than a symbol throws Parliament and the country it governs into anarchy. ‘King Charles III’ and ‘The Ruling Class’ in London 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

And throughout the production, this sterling actress offers plenty of affecting clues as to the apprehension and longing that lurk beneath Queenie’s gilded gowns and satin lingerie. Review: ‘The Wild Party,’ With Sutton Foster as a Louche Jazz Baby 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

And I loved when the barely verbal Quasimodo, overcome with longing for pretty Esmeralda, says to an ugly cathedral gargoyle, “Why was I not made of stone like thee?” Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XI 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Ayckbourn is prized on both sides of the Atlantic as an ingenious master of modern comedy, attuned to the longings and foibles of modern British suburbanites. Ayckbourn to direct 'Sugar Daddies' at Seattle's ACT in 2013 2012-07-09T23:18:05Z

A quality of strangled desire is boiled down to the longing to "put a hand on the shoulder of a woman whose back reminds us of a long-lost friend." Books of The Times: ‘All Men Are Liars,’ a Novel by Alberto Manguel 2012-06-21T21:51:49Z

“Smile” is the first Marcovicci show I’ve seen that lacks a torch song in which she wallows in heartbreak and longing. Andrea Marcovicci at the Café Carlyle 2012-10-09T21:01:11Z

It’s a haunting and vulnerable refrain, filled with loss and longing and absent the hooks and jaw-dropping rhymes that marked her last full-length LP, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Watch Nicki Minaj Update Alice in Wonderland for Pills N Potions 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

When they attended the 2012 competition, they “felt really palpably” that the contestants “were really longing for their lives to completely change,” Wilner said. They cooked up a play about the only man to win the Pillsbury Bake-Off. But they didn’t tell him. 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, wrote, the novel swells “with wisdom about the self-destructive longing for paternal approval and the devastating consequences of clinging to rotten models of masculinity.” Paperback Row 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

For those longing to get lost in a strange, wondrous, digital world of lights and colors that is not unlike the high-pitched energy of Manhattan or any world city — yes. The Cruise Issue: On the World?s Largest Cruise Ship, the Sea Is an Afterthought 2011-02-14T16:19:28Z

What else but the loose lines of our love and longing, the connections, familial or otherwise, to which we hew? Hard-won wisdom in Abigail Thomas' 'What Comes Next and How to Like It' 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

Meaningful glances full of longing and awkward social interactions in school hallways live side-by-side with scenes of ghouls raging in graveyards, vampires erasing their victims’ memories and monster hunters sparring in the garden. In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

He finds himself missing her dreadfully, and misinterprets that sadness and loneliness as a passionate longing for Megan. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z

Both products of Vienna, more than a century apart, they nevertheless share a quiet intensity, as well as expressiveness shaded by longing and melancholy. Review: The Unaffected Excellence of the Cleveland Orchestra 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

I don't look at Bergman and go "yummy" and then look at Grant and go "shame about him."  Such is the heat of the movie screen that every grain and pixel is suffused with longing. Magic Mike turned me gay! 2012-07-06T13:00:00Z

Now the old man spends his free time cutting out pictures of flowers, as if collecting blooms for a bouquet that will convey the longing and regret he can no longer express to his wife. At the Cannes Film Festival, Some Gems Midway Through 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

Tenorio’s insistence on the specificity of his characters’ dreams and longings is its own kind of argument for their right to be here. How Do You Tell Your Child He Is Undocumented? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

As a child immersed in 12-step teachings, I learned the roots of addiction disease lay in emptiness, escape and longing. The sobering truth about quitting my job: I was addicted to high-stress, nonprofit work 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

A lot of the songs on IRM are tinted with sadness and longing. 2010-01-27T17:25:00Z

He’s more like a one-man battlefield, whose dreams of peace — the “repose” and “safety” promised in those titles — express the longings of a tectonically divided civilization. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

This works smoothly, as when a saxophone aptly depicts Malcolm’s new life in big-city Boston, or when a wailing, longing trumpet accompanies prayer in Mecca. Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z

The lyrics don't say much, but Love imbues them with information all her own on conflicted longings, aching regret and tragic misfortune. The cult persona of Courtney Love in 'Kansas City Choir Boy,' more concert than musical 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Even before she begins to read minds, her consciousness, as the reader experiences it, is one long, desperate longing for privacy. In Connie Willis' 'Crosstalk,' sci-fi meets romance in an overcommunication age 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Small, singular places created from an obsession, a longing and the particularity of one person’s vision. | Sentimental Journey 2014-03-21T21:21:20Z

Her Snow White is part of an interesting new breed of warrior princesses — Katniss Everdeen is their current leader — whose ascendance reflects the convergence of commercial calculations and cultural longings. Movie Review: ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ With Kristen Stewart 2012-05-31T17:47:53Z

Like that work, “Venus” considers how a so-called freak became a mirror for the fears, sins and longings of a repressed society. Review: ‘Venus’ Recalls a Woman’s Fortune, and Her Ruin 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a world that exists outside one man’s longings, and won’t be eclipsed by them. Review: In Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool,’ Patient Perfectionism 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

And it's going to be your comfort zone ,and it's going to be your zone when you're longing for something. Chef Lidia Bastianich reveals why she cooks: "Food is comfort, food is memory, it communicates" 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Collyer has written a clever examination of sex, longing, memory, gender roles and violence. Review: In ‘The Good Girl,’ a Sexbot Gets Weepy 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

But the music’s confidence utterly belies the raw longing in the lyrics. Mitski Steps Back Into the Darkness 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Watching “The Good Fight,” I found myself longing for the days when the world seemed like a moral gray zone. Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Fleeting joys, longing for the past, lingering regrets and a struggle for optimism fill the album. Review: Brian Wilson’s Nostalgic, Reflective ‘No Pier Pressure’ 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

Perhaps, then, I have not been so infatuated with the people themselves, but with the act of longing. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

It awakens other appetites, longings that are too often neglected: for beauty, for strangeness, for the delirious, heedless pursuit of perfection. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

“Food is about memory and tradition and identity and longing. If my grandmother was still alive and could make her chicken soup with the lab meat, many lives would be better.” The New Secret Chicken Recipe? Animal Cells. 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

In it, time travel becomes a potent metaphor for the transience of even the most permanent relationship, of love, loss, absence and longing, of the fragility and complications of our connections. Gotta get back in time: The current explosion of time travel novels goes beyond sci-fi and fantasy 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

In the bland animated adventure “Over the Moon,” a girl’s longing for her late mother inspires her journey to the moon. ‘Over the Moon’ Review: After Loss, a Lunar Adventure 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

Moreover, with his youthful, handsome physique, he made a compellingly human figure of the knight of the Holy Grail, capturing both Lohengrin's otherworldliness and his romantic longing. SF Opera: A whale, a swan and 2 lovers 2012-10-21T20:33:09Z

Maybe it was just a longing for warmer climes and spring’s arrival, but Fox’s “Rio” had a killer opening overseas. | 'Rio': Macaw Finds His Wings, and Much More, in Brazil 2011-04-15T00:54:07Z

The theme is longing for perfection, Nevins writes in a gallery note. Review | In the galleries: Transfer lettering becomes a medium with a message 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

It is the voice of your species and all your ancestors and potential descendants expressing their longing for being and immortality. I can’t turn off my thoughts 2013-02-01T01:00:00Z

It is, like all coming-of-age tales, a story of deep longing. A Devastating Tale of War, a Tender Story of Love 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

This utopian longing is perhaps most powerfully realized in a book that Olsen didn’t write. Tillie Olsen Captured the Toll of Women’s Labor — on Their Lives and Art 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Just a few days into the era of hearts, Manish Vij, a technology entrepreneur, was already longing for the good old days. Twitter Fans Speak Out Against the Heart 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

Even in the solo cello's most rhetorically longing paragraphs, the orchestra was always a benign but discreet companion, the soloist's unconscious mind perhaps, which deepened the reflectiveness of the concerto even further. LSO/Sado – review 2013-01-15T18:29:01Z

For once I had met someone who I thought would be a fantastic father, which released some of the longing kept shut behind that heavy door. The agony and ecstasy of becoming an older mother 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

These dancers, wallowing in the pain of love and longing, never break your heart. Review: Exposing the Heart in a Brutal Dance of Love 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

The history of spirituals, originally created by enslaved people in America, imbued the piece with pain, longing and — by the work’s joyful end — a feeling of catharsis. Alvin Ailey’s ‘Revelations’ still dances into audiences’ hearts 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

“It’s so strange because it’s in major. But there’s lots of smiling through the tears in it, a lot of longing.” Martin Frost Explores the Soul of the Clarinet 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

As Luke Cage, the source of Jessica’s bittersweet longing, Mr. Colter played his superhero brooding and tender, shackled by the memory of his dead wife and enraged when he discovered the truth of her demise. ‘Marvel’s Luke Cage’ Sweeps From Barbershop to Neighborhood Battle 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Still, she brought tenderness, longing and shimmering warmth to her somewhat cautious but affecting performance of the challenging “Liebestod.” Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

The other problem was, of course, incompleteness: single acts and extracts of Wagner, when done this well, leave you longing to hear the whole work. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – review 2013-02-13T17:17:51Z

Here is what I think about time travel, and the longing for it: The only real time machines are our own bodies, carrying through from the past to the future. Perspective | Inauguration Day was a milestone, but it’s not the destination 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Although one might argue that lyricism creates an atmosphere of mystery and longing, two clear themes elucidated here, I kept wishing Badkhen would dial back the poetic language and funky syntax. Hitting the trail with African herders in 'Walking With Abel' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

At the next stall, my husband gazed with longing at the barrels filled with spices, nuts, coffee and dried fruits of all kinds — figs, dates, apricots, lemons. Visiting modern-day Nazareth, no longer in biblical times 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

There are references to early sideshow banners, commemorative wreaths, needlepoint samplers, teen longing, and American heartthrobs. And the Blue Ribbon Goes to ... Anissa Mack 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Mixing authorial longing and losses with accounts of the life-or-death struggles of homeless people on a calamitous scale is, of course, aesthetically and morally risky. The Life-or-Death Struggle of Refugees Braving the Mediterranean Crossing 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Seek poetically, even magnificently, explores every facet of her loss, but her immense longing and regret never transform her in any significant way. Amy Seek's 'Confessions of a Birth Mother' explores meanings of motherhood 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

A vocal straight from the Terence Trent D'Arby book of infernal longing, and the kind of swearing you just don't get enough in songs designed to make drunk people think they're really good at shagging. This week's new tracks 2012-11-10T00:06:00Z

Souren Balakian, a lonely Armenian émigré longing for a sense of connection with his new home, stages disturbingly unconventional puppet shows in the Luxembourg Gardens. A Novel That Unfolds in a Day, and Other Historical Fiction 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

The result is a portrait of the soldier as sleepwalker, caught in a no man’s land between patriotism and private longing. David Lang’s ‘Battle Hymns’ Are Performed on the Intrepid 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

A longing it most certainly is, but a longing for what?” he wrote about his travels in his Antarctic book, “End of the Earth.” Childbirth is my extreme sport 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z

The subjects she sang about were, for the most part, longing, death and tears. Review: A Molten Song Recital, Without Comic Relief 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

Our longing to see these vanished creatures for real drives an endless industry of re-creation in which intense visual imagination is brought to bear on the dead stone traces of the antediluvians. Drawing with dinosaurs: in praise of the artist's impression 2011-02-17T15:29:34Z

But the moment he texts or calls, I am infused with longing. Addicted to a younger man 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There’s a longing for connection in the familiar musical tropes as well as the lyrics, a guileless attempt at kinship. Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z

Placed in the care of their half-sister, Dora, the orphaned sisters move to a house by the sea, where they can witness with longing the ships that set sail for England: Shirley Hazzard in The New Yorker 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

You fall in love, and the day the mystery and longing go away, it's over. "What's Love Got to Do With It?" director on dating today, from apps to setups: "Love is a mystery" 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

“The reader comes to understand Molly’s worldview, and to sympathize with her longing to be accepted — a quest that gives ‘The Maid’ real emotional heft.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

“We shouldn’t have longings for something that is past, that is a jersey or a moment, that is to the detriment of living people,” he said, referring to Native American communities. What Happens Now to All That Washington N.F.L. Merchandise? 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Isis, by contrast, has spent all this time stalking vermin and lying round in drafty hallways and wagging her tail on cue – not to mention absorbing and filtering the human toxins of longing, loneliness, rage. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: Prayers for Isis 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

And presuming it's within your price range, will it satisfy your longing for arts and culture? Neighborhood watch: Riverside at the ready 2011-02-03T23:41:12Z

In these ways and more, it was the female parts of an interlude that, in my eyes, came to stand for the whole of what longing in America looks like. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Phillips came back strong with his last performance, singing Bob Seger’s “We’ve Got Tonight” in a way that imputed a tender loneliness and sexual longing to the song’s narrator. ArtsBeat: Joshua Ledet Is Voted Off 'American Idol' 2012-05-18T03:17:55Z

That image, now in the Guggenheim’s permanent collection, nods to the queer B.D.S.M. scene in which Opie found community in the ’90s, while capturing the painful longing she felt for a family of her own. From Catherine Opie, a Visual Diary of the Recent Past 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Ash Wednesday is on many islands a solemn day, ushering in a whole year of what Trinidadians call tabanca: irrepressible melancholy and longing induced by the conclusion of Carnival. On Dominica, a Carnival Celebration as It Was Meant to Be 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

While Patty’s unreliable narration about her propensity to eat too much and murder becomes old hat after a while, Bob’s insatiable longings are actually pretty thrilling. Insatiable: has Netflix's controversial 'fat-shaming' show fixed itself? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

Her movement, scored to a string motif overlaid with schoolyard taunts, is agitated, suggesting depths of interior hurt and longing. | A Bronx Schoolyard Rivalry, Told Through Dance 2014-01-15T23:24:40Z

Accidents of birth, geography and landscape shape us as much as our private longings and desires. I Heart Peterborough – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T17:00:10Z

Its direct arrangements and haunting melodies hark back to Stevens’s earlier work, while themes of memory, loss, disease and unrequited longing underpin every turn of phrase. Sufjan Stevens, a haunting presence at Constitution Hall 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

Likewise, I’ve sought to fulfill my longing for something bigger than myself — something, for the sake of simplicity, I will call a higher power — through a particular feeling. Life Without Longing 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

It felt like Jeffrey Eugenides, the writer, really understood the experience of being a teenager: the longing, the melancholy, the mystery between boys and girls. Sofia Coppola on making The Virgin Suicides: 'When I saw the rough cut I thought: Oh no, what have I done?' 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

Nearly all of the lyrics are, in some way, about longing. Alone in the Studio in 1983, Prince Is Revealed 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Coveting real estate is as close to a common genetic trait as New Yorkers have, a shared longing and lust for neighbors’ square footage and floor plans, wood-burning fireplaces and full river views. Living Rooms: Onstage Spaces to Lust For 2010-04-29T21:42:00Z

It could seem as if Frank threw his Leica into the world and let it catch what it could, which happened, without fail, to be something exciting—fascination, pain, hilarity, disgust, longing. The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

And the only thing more horrifying than Rebecca Black's terrible "Friday" is the sad, easily exploited longing for fame she represents. What's behind the "worst music video ever"? 2011-03-14T15:15:00Z

On a wintry day, she surrenders to her students’ collective longing and gives them a two-minute break to stare out the windows as fat snowflakes tumble from the sky. Katherine Heiny Shows Readers How to Pay Attention to the Little Things 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Reading Chayka’s book put me in mind of a longing for less stuff, and a longing for more support. ‘The Longing for Less’ Gets at the Big Appeal of Minimalism 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

“He was simultaneously an Englishman suffused with longing for the ordinary patterns of joy and solace denied him as a child and young man.” New ‘Revelations’ in the Life of Francis Bacon, a Master of Darkness and Distortion 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z