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Redmayne plays a creep; Henry, a yearner; Keoghan, a simpleton.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2023

A natural ecstatic, he was also a chronic depressive: not a passive shut-down case, but a lamenter and yearner.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2010

But he is no fire-eater, no yearner after social regeneration by baptism of blood, no dreamer of new worlds to conquer, nor the revival of dying feuds in ghastly wars.

From English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters by O'Rell, Max

Jimmy says the butcher is a good yearner too, but he does it by going red in the face and trying to burst his collar with his neck.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

The Young Hungarian Nobleman, whose remittances have been stopped by the war, is reminiscent of the original yearner for the idyllic life.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir