Examples of wistful

• When the tune finally emerges, wistful and lyrical, it's like the embrace of an old friend.

• Amid the wafting paragraphs of the finale, the music relaxes for a tellingly wistful passage.

• The keyboard also deflects to the submediant at the vocal persona's wistful fermata on 1 at 'becomes' (bar 42).

• This is music of prolonged reflection, wistful longing and delicate piquancy.

• Its mercurial changes of mood, wistful humour and spontaneity make it ideally accessible, and it is not at all tiring.

• But the tone is at times wistful, betraying a rather naive desire that subcultures like hip-hop would simply go away.

• His absolutist refusal to countenance any foggy compromises made him alien to a generation of wistful survivors.

• Not all the site-specific text is wistful and nostalgic, however.