yearning
noun
deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness.
yearningly
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a word derived from
yearning.
Example Sentences
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The earlier 1990s records had been more yearningly odd and exploratory, but the five Magnetic Fields albums that followed 69 Love Songs inevitably fell under its elongated shadow.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2017
She vomited that news out, mockingly, yearningly, with a shrug or with a finger pointed at the audience.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015
Exhibitions and installations by international stars round out the permanent collection, which includes Anselm Kiefer’s yearningly beautiful Seven Heavenly Palaces, produced for the 2004 opening.
From Forbes ● Sep. 20, 2014
Many believe him the best of all film composers, as adept at the yearningly romantic as he was at the outright terror of Psycho.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2012
Siddhartha thought yearningly and bitterly about his son, nursed his love and feeling of tenderness for him, let the pain gnaw at him, underwent all the follies of love.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
