Voorbeelden van wanly

• Layla and Claire looked on wanly, speechless with exhaustion.

• Anna smiled wanly, wishing she did not feel such pain.

• The sun was peering wanly through her kitchen window.

• Yet if opera, and certainly grand tragic opera in the traditional sense, is to be anything, this is surely what it must, however vainly or wanly, attempt.

• I still hope, somewhat wanly, that it will be.