The U.S., on the other hand, still has a growing population and entrepreneurial longings.

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To the romantic rationalism of Paris, he added the transcendental longings of Whitman and Emerson.

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He also showed a new tone of even-handedness by comparing the sufferings and the longings of the two peoples.

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Most of us Americans have our manic holiday traditions, and longings.

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For humans, Augustine observed, neither the turn fully inward nor the turn fully outward was ever enough to satisfy the longings and the frustrations of the soul.

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Igor Stravinsky's introductory music serves more as atmospheric soundtrack than as direct accompaniment when Ivan is bewildered and seemingly distracted by longings that twist and animate his body.

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Built as the ultimate expression of love, the Taj has become a site of pilgrimage, a place where visitors bring their dreams and joys and longings, transforming it into sacred space.

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His longings first surface in a silent, hauntingly lyrical black-and-white preface that shows a bustling New York long before he was born, as well as a smiling, nameless beauty from the same era who has somehow become his most precious memory.

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And Robert Perisic does his best to reveal them to us in all their jumpiness, their longings, their aspirations and desires, all against the backdrop of the recent war in Iraq, which we hear about in the doctored reports coming from cousin Boris.

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