She had a vague longing for younger companionship, and of the kind naturally most interesting to her.

We'll be like those generic new buildings: Mirrors reflecting other mirrors, filled with unfulfilled vague longings.

Michael Havel looked into the fire, lost in thought-though also conscious of a vague longing for a cup of coffee.

The vague longing in him to explore his own strange, unpredictable power frightened him.

His striving for utmost unity is more intense than the vague longing of the frustrated for an escape from an untenable self.

But there is also a palpable sense of desire in their grappling - a vague longing, if not necessarily for each other, then for something or someone.

He had never really liked them, yet they filled him with a vague longing, an odd uneasiness -- just the sort that filled him now.

As one reader wrote, "He infused that rush of words with some vague and indescribable longing."

The historical background is precise, realistic, and never romanticised; this is not a writer's escape from the modern age into vague longings for the past.

Full of a vague, wild longing, he instinctively stretched out his arms, .