I catch hints of a religious yearning when people start pleading for copies of the 'Mrin'.
Under the satiric surface, there's a genuine religious yearning (Johnson).
The impulse doubtless begins with a religious yearning for the Jerusalem of ancient times.
I do not think Harrison was the first to use genres associated with sexual yearings to represent religious yearnings.
He became Christian out of a "religious yearning", and his protest songs got a Christian tinge.
But Mr. Kececiler does feel that Turkey should be more sensitive to religious yearnings.
The later people, unlike the more brutish early ones, had religious yearnings, and they longed for gods.
All the time she walked in a confused heat of religious yearning.
"That lies behind many of humanity's religious yearnings," the woman picked up.
Did you think I was having religious yearnings?