Translation for "queriendo creer" to english

Queriendo creer

• wanting to believe

Translation examples

wanting to believe

– Y toda la vida queriendo creer en algo -dice Santiago-.
“And my whole life spent wanting to believe in something,” Santiago says.

Seguía queriendo creer que William estaba vivo y que algún día regresaría.
She still wanted to believe that William was alive, and might return.

La imaginó, calata, burlándose del Teniente, el robusto cuerpo vibrando mientras accionaba, y al oficial, alelado, no queriendo creer lo que oía y veía.
He imagined her naked, mocking the lieutenant, her robust body shaking, and the lieutenant bewildered, not wanting to believe what he was hearing and seeing.

—¿Qué sueños? —preguntó Sue débilmente, queriendo creer en él otra vez, deseando olvidar su oportunismo, su falta de fiabilidad, su infidelidad, pero diciéndose también que sería una estúpida si lo hiciera.
‘What dreams?’ she asked wearily, wanting to believe in him again, wanting to forget his opportunism, his unreliability, his infidelity, but telling herself she would be a fool to.

«Quise decir, su puesta de largo», replicó Saybrook igual de extrañada.) Mi padre, mientras se miraba las uñas, se comía con los ojos a los Steinfeld y a Eli, no queriendo creer que lo veía.
“I mean her coming-out party,” said Saybrook, just as baffled.) My father studying his fingernails a lot, staring hard at the Steinfelds and at Eli, not wanting to believe any of this.

Rebecca, contenta por ver a su hija mayor y queriendo creer que atravesarían juntas la tormenta actual, observó a las personas detrás de Twyla, atenta por si alguien parecía demasiado interesado en ella.
Gladdened by the sight of her older daughter and wanting to believe they would together navigate the current storm, Rebecca nevertheless scrutinized the people who followed in Twyla’s wake, alert for someone who seemed unduly interested in her.

Aunque había hecho todo lo posible para ayudar a sus dos hermanos a mantenerse a flote, queriendo creer que con un poco de apoyo podrían cambiar sus destinos, Tariq sabía que era un hombre limitado, como Adem y Jalil.
Though he had done his best to help his two brothers keep their heads above water, wanting to believe that with some support they could change their destinies, Tariq knew that he was a limited man, and so were Adem and Khalil.

Los curtidores, los aparceros, los curanderos, los mercachifles, las lavanderas, las comadronas y las mendigas que habían llegado hasta Canudos después de muchos días y noches de viaje, con sus bienes en un carromato o en el lomo de un asno, y que estaban ahora allí, agazapados en la sombra, escuchando y queriendo creer, sentían humedecérseles los ojos.
The tanners, the sharecroppers, the healers, the peddlers, the laundresses, the midwives, and the beggar women who had reached Canudos after many days and nights of journeying, with their worldly goods in a canvas-covered cart or on the back of a burro, and who were there now, squatting in the dark, listening and wanting to believe, felt their eyes grow damp.

Kiin se quita impulsivamente el hiyab y la shuka, primero una prenda y luego la otra, como decidiendo despojarse de un estorbo que le impedía acceder a zonas más íntimas de sí misma, queriendo creer acaso que vuelve a ser la persona que ha sido la mayor parte de su vida: una mujer musulmana, también una mujer somalí.
It is then that Kiin removes her khimaar and her shukka in a flash, as if on impulse, peeling off one, then the other, consciously ridding herself of an encumberance keeping her from accessing a more intimate aspect of her self. Maybe Kiin wants to believe that she is returning to the person she has been for much of her life: a Muslim woman and a Somali one at that.