wistfulness

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Examples of wistfulness

  • A wistfulness crept into the conversation as he reflected on his summers at Hancock Point.

  • He tells the story matter-of-factly, without any wistfulness.

  • Shops don't need gimmicks to create a wistfulness for yesterday.

  • There is a wistfulness and an urgency to the recovery of these narratives, and their editors have adopted a spectrum of approaches.

  • And the eyebrows can register, almost single-handedly, wonder, pity, fright, pain, cynicism, concentration, wistfulness, displeasure, and expectation, in infinite variations and combinations.

  • His narrator is trapped in an angry masculine wistfulness which is awful to behold in its masturbatory disconnection from the world's real possibilities and pleasures.

  • This was an era of wistfulness for the young man, who later described himself as pure at that time.

  • A reduction that can not be produced, no matter the tool nor the wistfulness.

  • The effect of the whole is of appropriate simplicity and wistfulness, and seems to ask for delicacy of instrumentation.

  • The chic wistfulness comes to a climax in the films final party scene.

  • The elements of wistfulness and even light sadness, as if bidding farewell to something destined to extinction, became more and more prominent.

  • The tree-man gazes outwards beyond the viewer, his conspiratorial expression a mix of wistfulness and resignation.

  • For example, a woman may experience a sense of depression and this feeling can range from mild homesickness or wistfulness to more intense feelings of hopelessness and self-loathing.

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