Sentence examples for wistful air from inspiring English sources

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"Leading at the Edge" has a wistful air.

"Still the biggest gig of my life," reflects Cook with a wistful air.

Lamenting ostinatos and mournful cries bracket the more upbeat episodes, giving them a wistful air.

Both are about firm resolve in reaching for goals that appear unattainable, and both are delivered with a wistful air.

Staring out at the world with a steady, unsmiling gaze, she has the faintly wistful air of a woman familiar with romantic disappointment but not so embittered that she has completely given up hope of finding love.

Mr. MacDonald, who gives Christopher the wistful air of a proud son at a memorial service, spends most of the time seated on one side of the stage or another, engaging the audience rather than Mr. Lane.

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The music of the show incorporates wistful airs by Nitin Sawhney, a British Indian producer and musician, as well as instrumental sequences.

Its wistful, melancholic air has an autumnal feel, while the opener Mysteries captures Gibbons' voice at it's most haunting and ethereal.

+39 041 220 1215, cini.it The first major settlement of Venice and a seat of power until the 13th century, this island's wistful, neglected air once inspired the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Harold Pinter.

The two strands come together in "Shake It One Time," which recalls the grit and swagger of Graham Parker circa "Heat Treatment". "Don't Say Goodbye" is a lover's plea with Springsteenian imagery, and the bacchanalian intentions of "Mardi Gras" are tinged with a wistful, elegiac air: It hints that there is some deeper meaning we hope to find, even as we jump into the ultimate party.

Clinton mini-documentaries continued playing onscreen, but they had a wistful and heartbreaking air about them now.

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