Then, she loved him with the desperate yearning of the ignored.

More common are feelings of depression or emotional suffering, which, if not addressed by doctors, psychiatrists and social workers, could lead to desperate yearnings.

At the root of Nicole's desire to know the answer was a desperate yearning to prove for certain that his death had not been her fault.

She was almost afraid to say it, to even breathe, for fear it had been naught but the desperate yearning held deep in her being.

A desperate yearning stirred, clawing at her from deep inside, and she swayed toward him, fingers closing over his forearm.

Her eyes were wet and shone with horror and a desperate yearning that caught at his throat.

She curled closer, a desperate yearning seeping deeper than she understood.

The song that keeps running through your head when the show is over is a comic version of that desperate yearning to be noticed.

"There is a desperate yearning almost everywhere in the country, but certainly here, for some middle position."

She couldn't see his face for the shadows, but his desperate yearning crossed the distance between them.