The experience of unrequited love - not just a minor crush, but an intense, passionate yearning - is virtually universal at some point in life.

She was thinking of that intense yearning for love and fulfillment which seemed to be bred into her very bones.

Never with this intense yearning for more.

And the orchestra, as fine as the chorus, "spoke" the words, too, investing every line with meaning: in those pleas for peace, a quality of intense yearning.

The succeeding scenes were crafted to depict the intense yearning of the children to get away from the commanding presence of their father.

One must have intense yearning for the Lord!

Like the Bach, the Gubaidulina piece combines mathematical playfulness with intense spiritual yearning.

Half a century of intense yearning has imbued those objects with tremendous power.

Nicole felt a brief but intense yearning for those days of her youth.

For one thing, many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death-more than they experience, say, denial.