Sentence examples for rather wistful from inspiring English sources

It is at first a rather wistful occasion.

"If only you could talk to these creatures," he wrote, in a rather wistful conclusion.

Facing the chill of the real world upon exiting the theater, it is hard not to feel rather wistful.

"Nah," he says, sounding rather wistful, despite his evidently devoted marriage to wife No 3, Penny Lancaster-Stewart.

Before that arrives, though, there is plenty of taxing solo writing – especially in a main allegro section haunted by Scotch-snap rhythms – as well as a rather wistful slow section, both managed with suave ease by Ashkenazy.

Otherwise I thought it wasn't like her at all; this was a rather wistful, dreamy young woman, all soft edges, and my mother wasn't like that; she was practical, busy.

I don't think the piece is a mad rush but rather a wistful, deftly accented and, above all, slightly slower bit of nostalgia.

And her cover of "I Told You So," a late-'80s hit by Randy Travis, is a surprisingly effective melodramatization; compared with his rather quiet, wistful version, hers is downright operatic.

But Obama was determined to focus on the long-term future rather than a wistful farewell.

But Erpenbeck's last-minute rescues are wistful rather than very probable.

The second movement, for example, begins rather like a wistful lied in ambling triple meter, with a simple tune and a stately accompaniment.