He looked so wistful as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own.
Yet Athenians were also saying, with wistful smiles, that, for the past ten years or so, it had been a good party.
Brown can also be sad and wistful.
Spain had its Ebro scheme, involving 830km of waterways, now abandoned, though some Spaniards remain wistful.
perhaps the struggling journalist invokes the saint with a faint, wistful hope that he too will be as useful to his scribbling descendants in a couple of generations.
His voice is wistful, as soft as velvet.
He shook his head and smiled, as though with wistful amusement at the ignorance of his younger self.
Pigs have small, rather weak eyes and appear to be squinting, as if they are trying to get a better take on the world. They seem often to wear a wistful look.
“America needs heroes, ” it is sometimes said, a phrase that’s often uttered in a wistful tone, almost cooingly, as if we were talking about a lonely child.
"Coca brought lots of easy money... mucho dinero," says Angulo with a wistful smile.
She was a wonderful antidote to my unrelenting anxieties: wise, wistful, and kind.
But as it stands it also provides a contemplative, wistful and sometimes disturbing view of England.
On that day in 1985, Minh looked up at Tiernan with a hint of a wistful smile and held out a flower he had fashioned from the aluminum wrapper in a pack of cigarettes.
When in childhood I was confined to the house, I offered my heart in my wistful gaze to outside nature in all its variety through the openings in the parapet of our inner roof-terrace.
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