yearning
ਉਮੰਗ
definition
verb
she yearned for a glimpse of him
have an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from.
noun
he felt a yearning for the mountains
a feeling of intense longing for something.
adjective
a yearning hope
involving or expressing yearning.
example
He had something of a hungry, 'yearning' look to his face.
She gazed directly at Ryan with 'yearning' eyes, and Ryan felt like she was speaking specifically of him, which made him feel good.
What is the suppressed focus, the 'yearning' urge in our species to be so neccessarily linked?
Throughout these films and now in Goddess, Law betrays a 'yearning' passion to mine the inner worlds of her characters, to find out what it is that makes them cry, laugh, dance and desire.
In all the 'yearning' literature this place has spawned, the only indigenous characters are servants and bearers and extras - and that's shaming.
She gave a bright and curious performance in the film but it was the emotional vibrato of her rendition of ‘Over the Rainbow’ which set the 'yearning' tone of her career.
Then, with one 'yearning' look toward her uncle Deane's house, that lay farther down the river, she took to both her oars, and rowed with all her might across the watery fields back toward the Mill.
The accompanying soundtrack has the 'yearning' vocal of one José González.
Instinct kicked in and I slowly bent my head towards hers, leaning down to press my 'yearning' lips against her innocent ones.
Is there no unhappy David to whom I can sing the 'yearning' psalms of love?
Martha's self-titled debut shows that raspy, 'yearning' voice to good effect, along with a remarkably-developed songwriting talent all her own.
Then he slowed the sound to a soft, 'yearning' beat.
Its tranquil moments convey a nostalgic 'yearning' common to Japanese folk music.
But then he wants a car with a powerful engine and the 'yearning' returns.
Taking his cues from such veterans as David Byrne, Moore uses his latest release as a vehicle for exploring the heart of an artist given over to 'yearning' love and crusading anger.
It allows 'yearning' singles to evaluate what a persons' personality is like even before they get an opportunity to make awkward eye contact.
This 'yearning' goes beyond the simple need for an anthropomorphic father - figure; rather, it goes to the very core of our being.
There's a mixture of trepidation and euphoria to this song as it timidly climbs: the 'yearning' sound of the violin constantly clawing over the quickening beat.
There's an, Oh, such a hungry 'yearning' burning inside of me.
Running through the film is a 'yearning' nostalgia for the social unity of the war years, remembered fondly as Britain's ‘finest hour’.
The tenderest, most 'yearning' word in Fleming's lexicon is ‘cruel’.
John Savage's 'yearning' flute sound, with the band closing around him like shadows in moonlight, is exquisite on Faded Beauty.
The veil was lifted and the eyes moved in close, so close that I imagined I could see clear into her twenty-something spinster soul and the lonely 'yearning' girl beyond.
An occasional soul, defying all these constrains, wants to realize this truth and overcome illusion, and such a 'yearning' soul is a fit person to become a disciple.
By the end of the series, only one couple had succeeded in turning their parental 'yearnings' into bundles of joy (twins, as it happened).
My 'yearnings' for the taste of meat are becoming almost animalistic in their fervour.
But even in these cases, there is sometimes a lingering sense of kinship with another America, the America of unrequited 'yearnings' .
As the novel unreels at a pace fitting for a neighbourhood of fly fishers, Gary's adolescent 'yearnings' and religious fears become the frame for a deeper story.
Young girl in a baseball cap, one more of the travelling performers who ask for money, stands beside us for a long time, looking 'yearningly' at our son's crayons and colouring book.
The feelings evoked; the longings unleashed; the 'yearnings' induced; the awe inspired.
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