• Yeah, I'm a longing to tell you that ...(unintelligible) is shy.

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  • She reminded him of the young men who people Dostoevsky's novels, youths with a heightened sense of injustice and a longing to change the world.

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  • Since the teenagers' arrest, all the familiar theories have been rehearsed: broken homes, violent films and video games, easy access to firearms, a longing to catch the journalists' attention.

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  • He also irked his manager by claiming the prospect of early retirement had crossed his mind, by making fairly regular trips back to Argentina and by speaking of a longing to be with his family in his homeland.

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  • The hordes of journalists who have descended on Cyprus have found a country longing to be out of the media glare.

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  • What it made us realize, however, is that an Android phone is really better off with a keyboard, and we were longing to get back to the Droid a number of times while using this device.

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  • They should recognise the emotions on either side, from a longing for security to a craving for status.

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  • The ex-prime minister's campaign has hammered on the perceived lack of security, political instability and economic degradation that have left many Egyptians longing for a return to pre-revolutionary law and order.

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  • Even though Pollack ostensibly transitions from quasi-memoir to quasi-historical fiction, he approaches his narrative with the enthusiasm of a writer who has been longing to break free from the strictures of reality.

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  • And when Bush argues that his answers are part of a principled fight to clean up the process, he is appealing to a palpable national longing.

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  • That's precisely what so many have found in Kinkade's art: a powerfully nostalgic longing for the way it ought to be, a break from the daily grind and the thousand disappointments that drag us down.

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  • Salimi says the transplants were longing to feel a sense of identity, and some of the old songs his company sang would make them cry.

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  • Cain seemed like the perfect preacher playing to a congregation longing for a nation where individual initiative, not government, builds businesses, creates jobs and exemplifies American exceptionalism.

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  • MPs are torn between wanting to safeguard the supremacy of the Commons and longing to give a government many of them increasingly dislike (Iraq, university funding, the firemen) a good kicking.

    ECONOMIST: Constitutional reform

  • He said that almost all the barbers have moved out of Mingora and that although he can work in freedom in the camp and earns 100 rupees a day there, he is longing to return home and work there.

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  • Developed by men who had left their families behind to start a life in Argentina's bustling capital city, the dance expressed machismo, passion, longing and a fighting edge - and was set to an emerging sound rooted in Spanish and Italian melodies, criollo (Argentine-born) verse and Afro-Uruguayan candombe (a drum-based rhythm).

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  • Mr. MacAskill's decision was an affront to those who suffered this grisly fate and to a nation's longing for justice.

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  • Penny Morrison does a very pretty voile called Vilika that I am longing to use for lampshades.

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  • Longing for a simpler life, he settles down to sleep.

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  • She spoke to me of the letters her grandfather wrote to her grandmother longing for retirement, how he dreamed of returning to his family and putting aside a lifetime of public service.

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  • As far back as September, he was confiding to visitors that he was longing for a life of theological reflection and prayer nd weary of high ecclesiastical politics.

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  • So I know that vampires sparkle in the sun and are so sexy that when they walk into a room all heads turn to look upon them with longing.

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  • Listening to her speeches, with their longing for a lost, spit-shine world, one could sometimes mistake her, were it not for the emphasis on social justice, for a law-and-order Republican.

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  • Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke's longing for the spotlight--and desire to create a High Commissioner to administer the country--has made the mercurial Karzai even more resistant to advice.

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  • Norman Mailer, meeting him in 1968 at a fundraiser in Harvard, found him drooping and baggy-eyed, longing to be rescued.

    ECONOMIST: Eugene McCarthy

  • The series thus satisfies a secret or vicarious longing for elegance without imposing the hard work that's necessary to achieve it in reality.

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  • So I see the flurry of interest in this rumor as being more about our primal longing for leaders who appeal to our deeply-held sense of what a leader should be.

    FORBES: Pining for Bill Gates

  • Will local conservatism mix with the imported variety to forge a new style of Catholicism, girding for fresh battles with secularism and longing for a reversal of the Reformation?

    ECONOMIST: Catholics in Britain

  • In an interview with the Golf Channel on March 21, Woods expressed his longing for his father's guidance, a comment that now seems like it was made to tee up this commercial.

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  • At heart, Saavedra is just a simple man of the people, deeply concerned for the young son who lives with him and longing to be reconciled with his estranged wife.

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