During the team's several escapades, Bane reveals both a deep respect for his onetime adversary and a painful yearning to assume the mantle of Batman, telling a trio of rescued citizens to tell people that it was the Batman who saved them.

He glanced anxiously over at Lianne, whose eyes were still closed-and he allowed himself to acknowledge the deep and painful yearning for Felouen he intentionally ignored, the one that came roaring back to life every time he saw her.

The Governor's shock at learning that I was Jamie's wife was now at least partially explained; that one glimpse of unguarded, painful yearning had told me exactly how matters stood on his side.

Polly's crooked smile masked a stab of painful yearning.

Attached to the fear and the painful yearning was an overlay of desperation and frustration, numbing and endless, a desperation that had built up through eon after eon until it was at least as intolerable as Kremastor's twenty thousand years of helpless, terror-filled isolation.

Shortly after this a love-sick detective pulls his car up to the residence, suffering from a painful bullet wound and an equally painful yearning to track down Laura, his long-missing beloved.

It throbbed strangely with the painful yearning of his heart.

A powerful, painful yearning brought a rush of tears to Nicole's eyes.

There is an almost painful yearning in American musical life for a healthy operatic tradition, one that would combine the energy of the Broadway musical with the ambitions of European opera, one that would merge vernacular styles and a cultivated esthetic.

The painful yearning of an exile for a land no longer hers.