All 9 Uses of
yearn
in
The Bluest Eye
- But her voice was so sweet and her singing-eyes so melty I found myself longing for those hard times, yearning to be grown without "a thin di-i-ime to my name."†
Chpt 2yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- Concealed, veiled, eclipsed—peeping out from behind the shroud very seldom, and then only to yearn for the return of her mask.†
Chpt 2yearn = strongly desire
- "Sugar-coated whores," they called them, and did not yearn to be in their shoes.†
Chpt 2
- Standing a little apart from the choir, Ivy sang the dark sweetness that Pauline could not name; she the death-defying death that Pauline yearned for; she sang of the Stranger who knew ...Precious Lord take my hand Lead me on, let me stand I am tired, I am weak, I am worn.†
Chpt 4yearned = strongly desired
- Then, too, he had read several books and made the acquaintance of several great misanthropes of the ages, whose spiritual company soothed him and provided him with yardsticks for measuring his whims, his yearnings, and his antipathies.†
Chpt 4yearnings = strong desires
- Singly they found their way to his door, wrapped each in a shroud stitched with anger, yearning, pride, vengeance, loneliness, misery, defeat, and hunger.†
Chpt 4yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
- The most exquisite-looking ladies sat on toilets, and the most dreadful-looking had pure and holy yearnings.†
Chpt 4 *yearnings = strong desires
- A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment.†
Chpt 5yearns = strongly desires
- A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment.†
Chpt 5yearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
Definition:
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have