0 in a way that is sad and shows someone is thinking about something that is impossible or in the past:
"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.
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