yearn

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• In the sense that many people are out of a job and yearning for a sense of security agencies can’t give them.

• Perhaps I had become irredeemably out of control because the direction and encouragement I yearned for at home was absent.

• Weary of the disruptions, students yearn to return to the classroom.

• If you yearn for tranquility, you’ll spend your life in turmoil because that’s not what life is like.

• It’s the kind of experience that makes one yearn for a simple life.

• Over 2,000 people graduate from university each year in Bhutan, and they yearn for professional work.

• We may yearn for them but they are unreachable now, left in a past that seems almost to belong to a distant planet.

• It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the Octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.

• Fine—many (though not all) transgender people yearn to take on their felt gender role.

• I yearn for an America where people in positions of leadership actually take actual responsibility for their actual failures.

• I yearn for one now, but will not endeavour to procure one, I wish to be a father, yet refuse to be a husband or enact his part.'

• Your 'gift,' your genius, is yourself, and it's because it's yourself that I for you.