Sentence examples for slightly wistful from inspiring English sources
Hirst looks slightly wistful at the idea.
But throughout the conversation, his tone was slightly wistful, which had always been his character.
A delicate, slightly wistful dreamer, Miss McKerrow's Giselle had a touch of mischief, too.
His laughter over his wife's concern was fond and slightly wistful.
"But," he says, with a slightly wistful expression, "now there's a different person in the middle of it.
A slightly wistful version of Irving Berlin's "Always" sits comfortably beside two winsome McCartney originals, "My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts".
Initially, she was somewhat wistful.
There's a slightly dreamy, wistful note to his words, as he lounges on a black couch in a back office, here in his present-tense Hollywood Hills post-production suite.
Containing 12 nostalgically-titled tracks (examples include "We Don't Have Many Days" and "It's Just a Burning Memory") of just slightly fuzzy, wistful ballroom music that sound like a dusty, decades-old vinyl picked up and given a spin, it's described as the series' "most lucid," as future editions will supposedly erode as they progress.
Rick has also had several one-night (or one-day) stands, even a casual threesome, and the movie flickers, intermittently, with his brief recollection of sexual pleasure and the sensual, visual pleasure that goes with it — albeit with an inhibited man's wistful, slightly self-satirizing detachment mingling delight and regret.
