• Within the modernistically shattered framework of conventional melodrama, Philippe Garrel conveys an extravagant, heartfelt blend of tenderness, pain, and longing.

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  • They are outsiders, uneasy in their own skin and longing to escape.

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  • Their strange, folk-informed narratives of love, loss and longing has been united those who have ever been afflicted by one of nature most cruelly divine forces, Love.

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  • 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?

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  • "It shows us that a fairy tale can also be about the darker aspects of life, and for me it highlights the pain and longing in the piece, " he continued.

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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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  • 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.

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  • She started her musical career at age 18 in the distortion-heavy band Eric's Trip (named for a Sonic Youth song), and in the dozen years since she began to put out solo records, she's found ways to use instrumentation to explore the frayed edges of heartache and longing.

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  • This beautifully written book is powerfully evocative of the human cost of war and the longing for love that, despite the shooting and shelling, never fades.

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  • She believed in pinching pennies, as she put it, and my longing for a Jenny Adams wardrobe was useless against her rules about clothes.

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  • Also the hermits of third-century Egypt, the so-called daemon meridianus, when their prayers were stultified by pointlessness and tedium and a longing for violent death.

    NEWYORKER: Wiggle Room

  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: Anastasia Baburova

  • As the days went by, the combination of workout and diet left me both charley-horsed and starving, longing for the satiation that only sugar and grease provide.

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  • The renegade mindset, historically so much a part of Lone Star culture, once led Texas artists to avoid the influence of New York and Los Angeles (while longing for the exposure) and draw largely on local tradition.

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  • Leaders who give us hope and address our longing for community bring out the best in us.

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  • Through these extracts the reader can almost smell the longing and the willpower.

    ECONOMIST: Russia

  • His book begins strongly, even finely, with lyrical descriptions of the absence of water and the universal longing for it.

    ECONOMIST: Travels in the desert

  • Did the emergence of the realtime, social web offer a cure for a generation suffering from pent up longing and loneliness?

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  • Ms. Meyer, who is Mormon, captures the temptation, the mix of longing and self-discipline, felt by passion-swept young people trying to make the right choices for the right reasons.

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  • The music on Hombre Lobo is full of emotional longing and delicate sentiments, but also a more primal element something Everett says is missing from much of indie rock.

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  • Longing and regret, artistic frustration and new hope, self-revelation and self-loathing arise from loopy coincidences, tough reunions, and urban street poetry in this delicate romantic comedy by the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo.

    NEWYORKER: The Day He Arrives

  • 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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  • Longing and the burden of your hopes.

    NEWYORKER: Naima

  • 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).

    BBC: Anyone for tango?

  • It's easy to see why the material spoke to the director: With his painterly filmmaking style, his characteristic interest in the intersection between longing and restraint, and his ongoing fascination with the early postwar England of his own childhood, Davies has been able to shape the stage play to his strengths, telling the story from Hester's point of view.

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  • 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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  • The cold temperatures and miserable mixture of snow and rain had people longing for more agreeable weather.

    WSJ: Storm blasts East with snow, cold; warmer Tuesday

  • Ensuing years were marked by such songs as "Things Have Gone to Pieces" and "A Good Year for the Roses, " which highlighted broken or thwarted romance and the kind of longing that suggests late, lonely nights in bars.

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  • And Moby did that best in his 1999 masterpiece "Play, " a record filled with wistful longing, playful sampling and--What else?

    NPR: Moby Checks in with 'Hotel'

  • 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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