These glimpses of unresolved yearning underscore the book's title, "Half in Love," and its sense of emotional limbo.

"And so we are mired in an emotional and legal limbo," she sighed.

All of Mr. Johnson's characters seem to be living in a kind of emotional limbo, in transit from one career or relationship to another.

The Serbs, waiting to see if their leadership can miraculously roll back the decision made in Ohio to remap Sarajevo, are now in emotional limbo.

The narrator of "The Hunters," the second novella in this volume, is also living in a kind of emotional limbo.

The entire city, not just downtown, is in the physical and emotional limbo of a frozen zone.

She had ten desperate families to contact, and many others who were still in emotional limbo.

Instead, exile has become for them a place in and of itself, a state of mind, an emotional limbo, a country neither here nor there.

Researchers pointed out the connections between compulsion, the last-resort mentality and the problem of children left in an emotional limbo.

Mr. Cole's piano and guitar undulate through every song, suggesting the stasis of a man in emotional limbo.