yearning desire

yearning desire

A deep longing. I want to see as much as I can on my trip to England because I've always had a yearning desire to go there.
See also: desire, yearning
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (one's) heart's desire
  • your heart's desire
  • desire
  • finger itches to, one's/my
  • feel like
  • feel like doing
  • feel like oneself
  • feel like something/like doing something
  • be jonesing for (something)
  • a friend at court
References in classic literature
Yearning desire had been transformed to hope; and hope, long cherished, had become like certainty, that, obscurely as he journeyed now, a glory was to beam on all his pathway,--though not, perhaps, while he was treading it.
At last it seemed as if, in her yearning desire to reclaim the lost sheep, she could not be satisfied by addressing her hearers as a body.
The story moves through delicious accounts of her affinity with all creatures great and small, her delight in learning from the estate workers the intricacies of the plantations of which she is now the custodian to her yearning desire to unravel the mysteries surrounding the conflicting stories of her mother.
Now, Sissoko is not even trying to disguise his yearning desire to depart.
"So if you do feel like that, it's good to break that routine and go away and do something else so that you've got this yearning desire to go back in the studio and on the road and make music with these guys who are your best mates.
whose combination of heart and brain is delightful and rare." (3) Rabe's Rosalind gracefully vacillated between her strong-willed, proactive role as pursuer and her gentle, yearning desire to be pursued--"her smoothness, / Her very silence, and her patience / [Spoke] to the people" (1.3.80-2).
In her final months, she was surrounded by loving family and friends, a true testament to how she lived her life with a deep caring and concern for others as well as a yearning desire to get the most out of life, while doing her very best.
The 75-year-old Hemmings, who was Lancashire born and lives on the Isle Of Man, finally quelled a yearning desire to win the National in 2005 through the Irish-trained Hedgehunter.
Third, is a yearning desire to be independent and work with many different options in order to deliver custom solutions for their clients.
And deep inside, he carries a yearning desire for Powhattan's favorite daughter, Pocahontas.
Bollow has written a spellbinding story filled with yearning desire and heart-wrenching loss.
They have a yearning desire to move on to better things.
It might be some years on from when Keegan created the entertainers just up the road at St James' Park, but this is still a manager with a yearning desire to score goals.
Juninho's agent Gianni Paladini has revealed he "would be more than happy to talk to Leeds if they want to talk to us" given the unsettled Brazilian's still yearning desire to leave Atletico Madrid.
For many it's just a matter of time waiting for such special moments - but for the mum of four it's a yearning desire to retain what precious little sight she has left.