Sentence examples for a touch wistful from inspiring English sources

"My father wanted me to become a doctor, like Bernard," says Toledano, a touch wistful.

Barbara, his wife of 50 years, says she likes it, too, though she sounds a touch wistful about the couple's old two-wheel days.

It's funny to think that it's 25 years since the original, before hip-hop was a global phenomenon – and Nas is a touch wistful, reminiscing about local legends such as Marley Marl, MC Shan, and Roxanne Shanté.

Some are a touch wistful, others maybe a bit jealous -- and many others believe I altogether don't work at all.

Yet a touch of wistful sweetness in his singing made the miller seem already unstable, someone convincing himself that he's content to keep moving, like the babbling brook that enchants him.

Sure enough, Bronzino's finished portraits are smoothly done, allowing at best a touch of wistful interrogation to come through, as in his famous picture of a tailor at work, scissors in hand and raising his head to look at the viewer.

Natasha Parry's Olga is wistful and beguiling, sometimes a touch too delicate for the actress's gutsy egotism.

A delicate, slightly wistful dreamer, Miss McKerrow's Giselle had a touch of mischief, too.

If the title is a touch ponderous, what distinguishes Gorbachev from other statesmen entering their wistful winters is that he never grew complacent.

Though "Take Care of This House," a wistful piece sung by Abigail Adams, may be a touch saccharine, it has won a place in the song-recital repertory.

A wistful ballad brought to life by LA singer, Kidä, "Home" is a touch of the familiar and a taste of the unknown all rolled into one.