Yearns

Where Valentin yearns to "discuss ideas, to perfect my very soul" at the knee of the great author, the puckish Tolstoy dismisses some of his doctrine's key tenets – like celibacy – much to the puzzlement of his earnest acolyte. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But will they ever be more, as Colin yearns to be more? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Obama said the country "yearns" for the sense of solidarity that followed the 9/11 attacks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And then there's another part of me that kind of yearns for it, but tries to control it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And given that "Yankee Ingenuity" is one of the cornerstones of America, and the very thing that the Tea Party yearns for, the time has come for someone to point out this contradiction that Mr. Paul is propagating. ❋ Randy Olson (2011)

He yearns toward you as the bee yearns toward the light. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even that's not the end of the act, since as I said Follies truly yearns to be a gentle show. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

James MacArthur plays a young Swiss lad who yearns to climb the same dangerous mountain peak his father died on, in this colorful Disney adventure. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And she yearns for them to hold it—to not let it pass away. ❋ Christina Meldrum (2011)

An American jobs march could be the largest such event in American political history because it would speak for a gigantic swath of America that hungers and yearns for American jobs, and does not believe its voice is heard in Washington. ❋ Brent Budowsky (2011)

The tension ratchets as Gayford yearns for the sittings to come to an end and Freud grows jumpier at the prospect. ❋ Laura Cumming (2010)

This is for the writer — no matter how much hack-work he is turning out just now — who cherishes ambitions and ideals, and yearns for the time when agriculture newspapers and home magazines no more may occupy the major portion of his visiting list. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree, by WB Yeats The poet yearns for an island sequestered by a lake. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Transforming Birdland from a nightclub into something like a chamber-music recital hall, the trio offers jazz at its most serious one yearns for a Jon Faddis type to crack a few jokes between tunes, but more than rewards close listening. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

The child's thinking has the very verbal sophistication that he briefly regrets as he yearns for his younger brother's wordless bond with his mother. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gil is a bit of a goofball, but he is also, without knowing it, the genuine artist he yearns to be. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

She yearns for her children, Mélanie and Lorenzo, who grow older without her with each day she spends in the jungle. ❋ Janine Di Giovanni (2010)