Alice Walker

I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked away in ghettos and paid in very low wages but on the surface it was very bright and shiny and free and the rest of the world would look on it longingly.

American Author

Thomas Frank

In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

Nellie Bly

I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.

American Journalist

Laurie Helgoe

A shy kid might look longingly at other kids playing in the schoolyard, afraid and unsure about how to approach them, but an introvert is perfectly content on her own.

American Psychologist

Chris Borland

I enjoyed playing, and I've got a full and happy life now, so it's not like I'm looking back longingly at my time in football.

American Athlete

Conveys deep emotions, showing that someone wishes for something intensely and with feeling.

Emotional charge

Often paired with verbs related to looking, to emphasize the yearning expressed through someone's gaze.

Physical expression

Used figuratively to describe a deep wish or desire, not necessarily involving physical distance or touch.

Not literal

 every now and again you see lions and leopards looking up at vultures as they're flying because the vultures can attract them or guide them to food but you never I've never noticed any any animal kind of longingly looking into the sky thinking wow that looks like a cartoon character oh that looks like

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 business and how did you how did you sustain the change that these budgets then meant for kind of your work it just seems like you're describing and Manas that many governments would kind of aspire to longingly but not

Longingly

Emotional charge

Physical expression

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