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He shook his head and smiled, as though with wistful amusement at the ignorance of his younger self.

Halfway through reciting the entrees, I glanced up and saw Mom looking at me, a wistful smile on her lips.

Far from giving Ella the sack, she had developed some wistful respect for her.

He looked so wistful as he went away, hearing the frolic and evidently having none of his own.

Would you folks mind rescuing me? -Can all be well, thanks to Cliff's wistful wish? -That's easy for you to say.

Trundling chromaticism has the music roll up to a fortissimo, the orchestra still proclaiming the originally wistful piano-theme.

the President will push himself back from the table, pause for a moment, and then in a tone both wistful and strong, say. . .

Jastrow blows phantom kisses like neutrinos across the chasm between science and religion , seeming almost wistful to make a connection .

Mr. Walters served seven presidents, and moving day, he said, is invariably a wistful time.

His wistful eyes gazing at the shop made this this whole meeting of men so pitiful.

Many fond, wistful stories are told of carpets we "used to have" and the wonderful, wholesome adventures of long ago.

His wistful eyes gazing at the shop made this whole meeting of men so pitiful.

The poor mother has wistful reminiscences of her lost youth.

"When I mention Tuscany to outsiders, the response is usually a wistful sigh, " he writes.

Yet Athenians were also saying, with wistful smiles, that, for the past ten years or so, it had been a good party.

Twilight is short, and the unseen birds of twilight wistful , catching the heart.

Drawings need to be (wistful) is the only way I can describe - the story will feed you ideas. . .

Full moons bring endings, and sometimes those endings make us a bit wistful and sentimental.

As paper receipts disintegrate, some people are a bit wistful.

The experience will fill you with fond memories and perhaps make you a bit wistful for days gone by.

While most of us are content to live our lives with little more thana wistful gaze toward the heavens, others have bolder ambitions.

Willow-herb, tender and wistful, like a pink sunset cloud, was not slow to follow.

She had a last wistful look round the flat.

I ran upstairs to my parents bed and laid down with some wistful hope that I could wait out this storm.

"Coca brought lots of easy money . . . mucho dinero, " says Angulo with a wistful smile.

Their grief manifests as a wistful melancholy, their pleasure as a soft smile, and their anger as a simmering glare.

She was a little wistful or sad, and even a little bitter .

Girl in a fairy costume with a wistful facial expression .

Although a little wistful, Grandpa didn't seem overly upset by this state of affairs.

Yet, on screen, he is irresistible, with the wistful innocence of great screen comedians like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

I had forgotten. I do not believe admiration and wistful thoughts are against the societal norm.

He played a good game of table tennis, and a "wistful" game of basketball.

All green and fair the summer lies, just budded from the bud of spring, with tender blue of wistful skies, and winds that softly sing.

But as it stands it also provides a contemplative, wistful and sometimes disturbing view of England.

Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

If you are Lady Burnewilke by now, take my letter as a wistful farewell compliment to an unlikely and wonderful love.

Her wistful face haunts my reams like the rain at night.

In the new journey of my life, I am wistful and confident to recommend myself to you.

Through the veil of night, I see your wistful look, your pensive smile, and your glinting but evasive eyes.

TYPICAL USE: A child stood looking with wistful eyes at the toys in the shop window.

These wistful asides are only part of the story, for him and others.

He turned to meet the eyes of Ione- earnest , wistful, fearful.

'I hope the community can recognize that my skills are there, ' he says, with a wistful note.

A child stood looking with wistful eyes at the toys in the shop window.

We could see them 3 kilometers off in the distance, and it was kind of a wistful feeling.

Some Japanese elites are wistful for those demands.

They have not contented themselves with wistful pleas formore democracy or civil rights.

hope for a better future cannotjust be a wistful ''wouldn't it be nice if . .

Wide o'er the foaming billows She cast a wistful look.

The boy looks with wistful eyes AT the toy on display.

His voice is wistful, as soft as velvet.

We dare not look at her wistful eyes.

At best a wistful memory, at worst a dangerous enemy who is in possession of many of your deepest secrets.

Alas, there is a logical difficulty in this wistful hope, which is insuperable.

To affect a wistful or languid air , especially in order to gain sympathy .

If the plan in the morning, can make as far as possible when dress with wistful off its consciousness.

There's a wistful and amused lilt to his conversation, Peering south toward Central Park from his office on 125th Street

And round above were the wistful stars

Our wistful little star was far too high