“The insatiable yearning to know more makes each day exciting and each discovery a gem.”

“I couldn't recognise the yearner of the poems in this woman of sass and spirit.”

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

“However, old-school soul yearner Tears Always Win and the lovely Emeli Sandé co-write 101 sound genuinely intimate.”

“But life has never been kind to these devoted companions, whose romantic yearnings flounder and remain unrequited.”

“My yearnings for the taste of meat are becoming almost animalistic in their fervour.”

“The Great Depression temporarily slowed the outward migration, but it didn't change the yearnings of Americans.”

“Yearners are their own worst critics says Mr Phipps, always expecting great results.”

“Yearners are also described as slow decision-makers but, once the choice is made, they stick to it.”