His eyes, sick with a hungry yearning, dominated his face.

In his moral arrogance he could not understand that Melissa was speaking of neither politics nor society but of something quite different: the hungry yearning felt by many Greeks for a stem moral structure to accompany their exquisite sense of artistic and philosophic beauty.

He knew only grief for the loss of Kiche, hope for her return, and a hungry yearning for the free life that had been his.

Then she played and sang to him, while he gazed with hungry yearning at her, drinking in her loveliness and marvelling that there should not be a hundred suitors listening there and longing for her as he listened and longed.

But instead of the raw sensuality and hungry yearning Lady Day and her descendants brought to their songs, Ms. Peyroux projects an ethereal, abstracted wistfulness.

Conway saw the two Kelgians placed with a group of their own species, then with a look of hungry yearning toward the Senior's enclosure he hurried out again to take care of the Creppelian.

A dart went through her, of hopeless, hungry yearning.

The haunted, hungry yearning crossed Lytol's face.

But there are times--and in her eyes smoldered up that hungry yearning I've mentioned--'there are times when I wish most awful bad for that Thoreau man to happen along.'