yearning

• "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection," wrote French writer, Anaïs Nin, and one supposes that this yearning is ever-present in most people's desire to pen their memoirs. —  The Chronicle
• "It's a yearning, a yearning for something better, a yearning for wonder," said Adams, who plans his "I Am Waiting" to be part of a bigger work: "An American Landscape," featuring text by American poets. —  Aspen Times - Top Stories
• • The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were mistakes: Study Arab culture and Islamic history and you will not find a cheerful record of compromise or a long-term yearning for peace. —  The Union - All Categories
• The heart of Obama's campaign strategy must be to stoke the fires of that yearning, and to find ways of helping new constituencies contact their inner knowing of how dark the spirit of power in America has lately been.
• The inhabitants of Drizzle Plaza - a bleak and empty place, like a city where everyone has gone on vacation - are drowning in the seductive power of infatuation, yearning, and regret. —  NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Used in the Same Context

Word Family