But a calculus of human longing is also at work.

Much subject matter in literature can be seen as an expression of human longing for the irrational.

So far as one can tell, the only stakes are the human longings of one family.

For the first time I heard a note of human longing in his voice.

In the shadow of all this grand political change we see that everything is governed by the basic human longing for companionship.

The film deals with one of the oldest human longings - the desire for freedom, the desire to live in a better, more just place.

Of course, it's easy to see the connection between the two, and within it the human longing to find some redeeming significance in luxury.

Nothing contemporary seems to fulfill human longing as have the dozens of styles created in the generations before 1945.

It is hard to imagine a medication that could alter the human longing for deep pleasure or oblivion.

In the increasingly depersonalized world of medicine, the deep human longing for a name, a face and a touch behind medical care endures.