I think there's so much pressure, people spend so much time commuting, I think that the episode reflects a very universal longing.

Lewis continues: "A universal longing is expressed and, but for the language, the lines might have been written in any age:

It bears repeating: the appeal of the simple story is based in human nature and in the universal longing for security, certainty and predictability.

This universal longing for freedom is truly one of the distinguishing marks of our time.

Somehow or other (Cathcart's explanations seemed too simple now) the universal longing of the older generations that things might be different for their children had borne fruit.

It's something we can relate to...a universal longing.

Instead, the song was presented as a tale of universal longing.

In the end "Pill Hill" articulates a universal longing to step up on the social ladder.

There's something compelling and finally attractive about someone so genuinely sheltered, because it feeds the universal longing for a happy ending.

To see them first, and then to hear them, such was the universal longing.