The word wistful is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use the word when you want to express a feeling of yearning or longing. Example sentence: His wistful gaze out the window suggested he was missing someone special.
This third collection by the Irish poet is full of luminous imagery and sometimes a gentle, almost wistful, touch, as in "Brigie": "When you smile in your sleep / I think of the seal's tail / whispering above the waves, / slipping back again into the deep".
In fact, he is bouncing on his bed to the wistful sounds of Marc Bolan, but the tone is set.
Entitled Headbanging in the Mirror, it's wistful lounge music, serene and sunlit; and generally in keeping with all of Real Estate's sedate, suburban aesthetics.
Co-written by Jamie-Lynn Spears (sister of Britney), the wistful ballad looks back on a high-school relationship that burned hot and then went awry.
It is blunt, harsh in parts, compassionate, wistful, sarcastic.
Angus Robertson, the SNP's leader in Westminster, is a little wistful: "The backgrounds to the cause of nationalism in Scotland and Catalonia are significantly different, especially given the Catalans' recent experience of living under a fascist dictatorship in Spain.
"You have to peer at the plaque closely to see whether the object in front of you is Han dynasty or 21st century," in the wistful words of one recent visitor.Short of an outright delisting, UNESCO can put sites on a "danger list".
The reader is left with a wistful, orphaned feeling at the end.
But when a story is capably carried on small shoulders a Huck Finn, say, or a Scout Finch the result can be a fine mix of guilelessness and something wistful.
The robber seeks refuge and is wistful for the education he lacked.
Following "The Descendants", a knockabout Hawaii-set comedy starring Mr Clooney, "Nebraska" is a modest, wistful indie film which maroons its characters in the unglamorous Midwest.
