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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Already my body was beginning to feel restless: demanding reunification with the object of its yearning .
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Call it yearning , or more realistically call it leching or lusting.
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How could she feel her whole body yearning for him, when logic and reason told her that it shouldn't be?
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It was a yearning far more powerful than any yearning of the senses.
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This is a yearning which mankind insists shall be fulfilled and it has a specialised organ for doing this.
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We now look at the gothic exaggeration and moody drama of Victorian landscapes and we learn of their romantic yearnings.
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Yet despite the vibrant colours Modigliani captured something of the wistful yearning of his nature.