wistfully Значение & определение

Примери за wistfully

• "Maybe everyone will move out and we can move back," she says wistfully.

• "I wish," he said wistfully, "Beatrix Potter was still around."

• Stuck in the classroom, he gazes wistfully through the window at the boys playing soccer outside.

• Using a highly selective approach to the evidence, these writers wistfully describe an idyllic society whose innocence we have lost.

• Above all, they will share many of the sentiments expressed, and many will marvel, somewhat wistfully, at the rap star's ability to sing the unspeakable in such clear, melodic tones.

• Many of the other matters that have been referred to wistfully today were considered unlikely to be so lucrative.

• I listen to the ringing of the till and think wistfully of my previous incarnation as a retailer.

• The older and middle generations may indeed yearn wistfully for the old currencies, but the younger generation will regard the euro as their currency.