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How to use wistfulness in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word wistfulness? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
It begins with a short, tentative introduction of Bohemian wistfulness before launching on a vigorous sonata-form Allegro con brio.
And while he tried to stage a graceful exit from the presidential race, there remained an abiding sense of wistfulness.
Suddenly the coyness was gone from her voice, replaced by genuine wistfulness.
A seasonal wistfulness follows as I remember the faces and places of the Christmases of the past.
My flirting with him represents some wistfulness, nostalgia and regret of those years past.
In contrast to the wistfulness associated with nostalgia, however, the feeling here was one of nervousness, and even desperation.
And now here is a book which is mostly poetry, or at least a kind of elegiac wistfulness.
But he took his hand away, and she thought she saw his eyes shadow a bit with a hint of wistfulness.
Scientists used to be highly regarded in such surveys, he says with some wistfulness.
The youngster would be forgiven a touch of wistfulness as he observed his near-contemporaries in action.
A delicate wing, gauzy and transparent, spread in her hands, spanning her fingers, its lacy intricacy provoking a thoughtful quietness, a sad wistfulness.
That gave last night's dinner with Ahmadinejad an air of wistfulness tinged with growing fear.
When she mentions that she will head back to St Petersburg in August, it is not without wistfulness.
I will not conceal the fact that I am also overcome by a certain wistfulness.
A captivatingly beautiful young Polish voice, accompanied by a seasoned pianist, conductor, and teacher. An hour of escape exuding a gentle melancholy wistfulness.
So, with 50 weeks of the year still to go, perhaps the Brighton ensemble's blend of wistfulness, poise, and radiant beauty could still be nominated as a sound that will enrapture audiences in the coming months.
In sum, Long Way Gone is an oddly anodyne account of horrific events, except for the wistfulness and regret at the loss of Beah's happy boyhood in Mogbwemo.
Each person having read those lines has to know that only his spiritual guide, under the form of an inner voice or wistfulness, can take him to that one who can help him.
The landscape's serene calm returns, mixed with wistfulness.
But manned space flight in America is now in mothballs, and in these dispirited times even the pride visitors take in the dam is mingled with wistfulness.
Examples from Classical Literature
In the dusk the wistfulness which hid behind a smile in daylight looked forth fully and broodingly.
A new wistfulness was in her face, but it was not the wistfulness of hunger.
He thought, with an achy wistfulness, of a small hero-worshipping girl named Jennie Harper, at Serene.
There was a new atmosphere of wistfulness about the girl that made his heart ache.
Into his eyes leaped a wistfulness and a yearning as promptly as the yearning leaps into the eyes of a starving man at sight of food.
They smiled, but in Lauretta's smile there was a tender wistfulness.
It was the secret of the soft wistfulness in Cornelia's eyes.
The laughter had gone from her eyes, and left a dewy wistfulness.
It still regarded them with the merciless wistfulness of hunger.
His own voice was low and eager, with its undernote of wistfulness.
There was a wistfulness about Tillie's mouth that set him wondering.
He shook his head, and his face grew overcast and softened by wistfulness.
There had been a wistfulness, so rarely in Martin's voice, that Rose had detected it instantly.
Just now some secret sorrow seemed to be troubling her, for on her forehead were wrinkles and in her eyes a look of wistfulness.
There was an expression of wistfulness in her beautiful eyes, and a pathetic droop at the corners of her mouth.
Vere smiled as she listened, but there was a wistfulness in her heart.
I arranged my hair with a curl over the forehead, and threw an air of tender wistfulness into my expression, mingled with a touch of cynicism, which I am told suits me.
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