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- The love of this atmosphere comes, no doubt, from the days of my childhood, and a secret yearning I have for something homelike drives me, though with little hope, to follow the same old stupid road.†
yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- I like to step across the threshold of my room where all this suddenly stops; where, instead, cigar ash and wine bottles lie among the heaped-up books and there is nothing but disorder and neglect; and where everything—books, manuscript, thoughts—is marked and saturated with the plight of lonely men, with the problem of existence and with the yearning after a new orientation for an age that has lost its bearings.†
- The old books of the monks, softly illumined with their miniatures, and the books of the German poets of two hundred and a hundred years ago whom their own folk have forgotten, all the thumbed and damp-stained volumes, and the works in print and manuscripts of the old composers, the stout and yellowing music sheets dreaming their music through a winter sleep—who heard their spirited, their roguish and yearning tones, who carried through a world estranged from them a heart full of their spirit and their charm?†
- And yet a part of me began play-acting again, calling the professor a sympathetic fellow, yearning after a little talk and intercourse with my fellow men, reminding me of the professor's pretty wife, prompting me to believe that an evening spent with my pleasant host and hostess would be in reality positively cheering, helping me to clap some court plaster to my chin, to put on my clothes and tie my tie well, and gently putting me, in fact, far from my genuine desire of staying at home.†
- Then on again in mortal dread and an intense yearning for life.†
- Yearning and Valencia are recalled every night by many a lonely dreamer.†
- I don't grudge all those lonely persons their mute music, whether it's Yearning or the Magic Flute or Valencia.†
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- Yet all was a progress to one longed-for goal, the summons of a new yearning for one and one only.†
- A new dance, a fox trot, with the title "Yearning," had swept the world that winter.†
- From this elevation he blew with all his might, while at the same time his whole body, and his instrument with it, swayed to the tune of "Yearning."†
- All the excited couples round us clapped, stamped, cried out and urged the exhausted orchestra to play "Yearning" over again.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(yearn) have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)