yearning

Converse of object

• huddle: Send me your poor, huddled masses yearning to pay me rent.
• satisfy: They don't satisfy the yearning of your soul and there's no joy.
• feel: You can begin to feel the yearning in a blade of grass.

Preposition: for

• peace: There is a great yearning for peace around this world.
• adventure: The Bangkok to Hanoi journey is a one-of-a-kind experience for those with a yearning for true overland adventure.
• freedom: Living in a village forty miles west of Dublin, Tansy's family find her yearning for freedom hard to understand.
• love: His life had been clouded from infancy by an ardent yearning for the maternal love he had never known.
• something: Or a fair way down the path, but yearning for something fresh and vital?
• past: New technology mixes with a Romantic yearning for the past.

Adjective modifier

• wistful: They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
• nostalgic: City comedy tho is predicated not on a nostalgic yearning for past ideal states but on the ' reality ' of urban life.
• romantic: New technology mixes with a Romantic yearning for the past.
• intense: Among many champions of cyberspace also we see an intense yearning for transcendence over the limitations of the body.
• spiritual: No politics, little religion, no deep spiritual yearnings, no rage.
• deep: The numbness may be replaced by a deep yearning for the person who has died.

Modifies a noun

• melody: The balance between yearning melodies, experimentation and noise defines a new level of perfection in his work.
• vocal: It is SUCH a good song, yearning vocals, wonderful singing, actually.
• heart: O yearning heart, that never can be still!

Noun used with modifier

• mass: Send me your poor, huddled masses yearning to pay me rent.