What is "yearnings"

Usage examples of "yearnings".

He knew now that Priestess Poogli was indeed a throwback, because stirring inside that asteroidic hulk were procreative yearnings that at odd moments overpowered even the insatiable greed.

Your slavish yearnings seem disgusting and truly insolent, and you show a gracelessness in bruiting them about.

The air between them seemed to quiver with the memory of a thousand adventures: griefs and delights, romantic yearnings and dreadful deeds, treacheries by night and gallantries by day.

And she danced in the Kipuka Club, bringing to its small stage the incandescent sensual yearnings that Tahitian dances expressed so vividly.

There was resentment and challenge, generated by his abraded self-esteem, but other more subtle yearnings had brought him queer little pangs whenever she walked past unseeing.

One drop brings yearnings to every nook and cranny the female soul and encourages prodigies of sexual valor in every male.

She was very much a stranger to the growing yearnings that assailed her and more than a little cautious of the desires that enflamed her.

Her thoughts whirled in a reeling eddy, and evoked all the yearnings she had experienced once upon a time in his bed.

His arms wrapped tightly about her, fitting her close against his hardened, near-naked frame, and a searing heat began to build in the depth of her body, arousing yearnings that were completely foreign to her.

Their voices were soft and hushed, the pace leisured as they shared the same pillow and spoke of a thousand different things: their hopes, their dreams, their yearnings, their past, present, and future.

He considered that a monk-scholar had a right to know everything the library contained, he uttered words of fire against the Council of Soissons, which had con­demned Abelard, and while he spoke we realized that this monk was still young, that he delighted in rhetoric, was stirred by yearnings toward freedom, and was having a hard time accepting the limitations the discip­line of the abbey set on his intellectual curiosity.

She had spent a restless night filled with dreams and yearnings she couldn’t express in words.

Perhaps beyond the mere physical manifestations there were psychological yearnings and needs which might one day be permitted again to flower.

What he craved wasn't the exercise of unbridled power, or any of the other unfeasible yearnings which a telepathist had to retreat into fugue to let loose.

His intense masculinity had reached parts of her that she hadn't known existed, bringing to life dormant yearnings and emotions.