yearnful

The mother is yearnful of older times when the family used to live in a better house, but she bears her suffering quietly, for the most part.

Devoted mainly to the buying, selling, trading, collecting and repairing of fountain pens, and to epic schmoozing about them, the show also included much uninhibited ogling, coveting and yearnful caressing of said pens.

But as a senior he had picked up the glorified illusion that certain men were set aside for "service" and, going into the world, were to accomplish a vague yearnful something which would react either in eternal reward or, at the least, in the personal satisfaction of having striven for the greatest good of the greatest number.