Ambition gnaws away at the insides, turns others into ciphers for the yearned-for end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monday Poem: Ambition] Reference

Hence the perfect match: a candidate who yearns for a father becomes the yearned-for father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justin Frank: Politics on the Couch: Splitting and Reparation Two] Reference

Mugnet: The new yearned-for Style Invitational prize for Losers who keep misplacing their coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Week 888: Make up a word based on someone's name] Reference

It must be played — in went the yearned-for seasoning — thus favoured, I played it with relish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

The yearned-for attacks not just of one winter but of thunder and lightning spread no mutinous luminescence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry Monday: Jhamak Kumari Ghimire] Reference

But one can project positive feelings to protect against anxiety about separation from good parents or yearned-for protectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justin Frank: Politics on the Couch: Projection] Reference

Meanwhile, I found the yearned-for yarn online at Ram Wools in Winnipeg and I calculated how much it would cost me to knit the vest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knitting Mafia and Collective Bargaining « knitnut.net] Reference

His much yearned-for and keenly plugged face-to-face with Prime Minister Tony Blair on Radio 4's Today programme has just faded from the hi-fi in my office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let me put this to you...] Reference

Daughter Tamara Winn and her husband are in contract to buy the duplex that belonged to the late Mosler Safe heiress Janet Coleman at 740 Park Avenue, probably the most yearned-for building in New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Deal! Big-Hearted Baron Ira Rennert Buys Daughters Spreads in 740 Park, 778 Park for $60 M.-Plus] Reference

Over the course of American history, the populist instinct, now resurgent in the Tea Party movement, has oscillated between a desire to transform, and so create a new order of things, and a desire to restore a yearned-for (or imagined) old order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Fraser: History's Mad Hatters: The Strange Career of Tea Party Populism] Reference

Some of the most painful, anguish-filled moments for any mom or dad is watching their child not receive that longed-for invitation to the party, not get that desperately yearned-for role in the play, not make the team or not be invited into that coveted club or social circle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leslie King, LCSW: Confront Your Own Memories To Help Your Child Cope] Reference

Above new Georgian brick and older palm-thatched adobe loomed St. Jago's whitewashed steeple, framed against the Blue Mountains that rose skyward into storm haze, but the wind was from the opposite direction, carrying the salt tang of the unseen and no longer much yearned-for sea, twenty miles down the Rio Cobre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Jonathan Raban does finally get to Juneau and Jean and Julia do come, at which time Mr. Raban relearns an old, bitter truth, which is that the more intensely and particularly one anticipates a certain happiness the more likely it is that life will deny one exactly that happiness, in the yearned-for and anticipated form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Voyager] Reference

Long missed, oft yearned-for, well-nigh forfeited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English.] Reference

Oh, in those happier days now fondly yearned-for, ye heroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference

His gifts too were not as rich as those bestowed on that yearned-for widow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference

The armistice deal signed on 11 November 1918 brought yearned-for relief to Western Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

It must be played -- in went the yearned-for seasoning -- thus favoured, I played it with relish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

Even if a much yearned-for recovery is under way by then, income tax revenues may not reflect it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freep.com - RSS] Reference

There is no new thing under the sun, not even that yearned-for bauble of feeble souls -- immortality.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Barleycorn] Reference

It knows that the yearned-for liberation will not happen until there is a dismantling of imperial definitions of reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [NextReformation] Reference

The yearned-for strangers did not come; the familiar faces of the morning service all turned up in their accustomed places every evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Damnation of Theron Ware] Reference

Range through the course of this prayer, and see how the salvation of the world emerges as the yearned-for product of all His saving ministry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brooks by the Traveller's Way] Reference

Powderhorn closes March 28 - a shame because there's plenty of great turns to be had, including some accessed by the yearned-for West End Lift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

Last night's extraordinary breakthrough and the abrupt freeing of the two reporters will bring their distraught families joy and much yearned-for relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

He seems afraid to breath or move, lest he should waste the failing oil or snuff out the dying flame ere he reaches his yearned-for home – the Flowery Kingdom – the Celestial Empire!.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World] Reference

If her wishes could have been transformed into fact, the yearned-for wave might have been spared any trouble; a swifter and more withering death would have been the Tyro's immediate portion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage] Reference

All my life was turned towards the progress of the people, the helping of man, and it leaped forward to meet the stronger hope, the lofty ideal of social brotherhood, the rendering possible to all of freer life; so long had I been striving thitherward, and here there opened up a path to the yearned-for goal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography]

But the big news -- the scoop of the century -- the yearned-for headline, "Bat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bat] Reference

With the new year approaching fast and with it, perhaps, the consciousness of another year’s having slipped by without landing that yearned-for agent and/or book contract, the temptation to say, “Oh, the heck with it — I’ll start writing again in January!” can become downright overwhelming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » 2007 » November] Reference

With the new year approaching swiftly and with it, perhaps, the consciousness of another year’s having slipped by without landing that yearned-for agent and/or book contract, the temptation to turn off the computer and cry, “Oh, the heck with it — I’ll start writing again in January!” can become downright overwhelming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Great gifts for writers with great gifts, part IX: desirable alterations of the space-time continuum] Reference

Tenfold death would be to me yearned-for bliss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference

The long yearned-for meeting took place at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Combed Out] Reference

'Twixt your lip and the yearned-for American Cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 24, 1887] Reference