She looked as if there were a spell upon her, keeping her motionless and hindering her from unclasping her hands, while some intense, grave yearning was imprisoned within her eyes.

I feel a yearning for the university.

Tom yearns to live in the country.

I yearn for the university.

I yearned to eat a real pretzel.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Algerians yearn for more freedom.

At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning - his dream - required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West.

Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

Better not to yearn for impossible dreams.