"wistful gaze" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone looking at something with a longing or melancholic expression. Example sentence: His wistful gaze told her that he was longing for times past.
Wasn't there, after all, something effeminate about writing novels, something of the plumped pillow and the wistful gaze?
Among them are virgins, housewives and goddesses: they look out from the canvas with a coy sideways glance, a challenging stare and a wistful gaze.
As another year comes to a close, it's time to look back with a wistful gaze and reminisce about all that 2011 had to offer.
Far from the cameras and cuddly toy stores, birds and bees flounder, but don't get a look in next to the wistful gazes of their fluffy animal cousins.
Through Jon's ever-wistful gaze, we feel the buoyancy of their youthfulness, their goodness — sometimes to the degree that they feel mostly present as moral foils to Jon and Ray, whose shadowy home lives have forced them to age beyond their years.
Instead, his tone seemed almost wistful, his gaze tender.
Patiently enduring the indignities his life entails, his wistful one-eyed gaze gradually becomes a smile of profound contentment when his little human takes him on holiday and he discovers there's more to life than being hung out to dry on a clothes line.
Certainly it should make Bloom a big star; even with the most wistful, wide-eyed gaze this side of Amy Adams, it's not everyone who can anchor a story that is both a fairy tale and its deconstruction.
Two shorter songs recall Mr. Young's "Cinnamon Girl" as they gaze with wistful admiration at girls lost in their dance: "Psychedelic Pill" (which is included in two differently distorted mixes) and "She's Always Dancing".
They would politely nod and indulge in inane small talk as we sipped rosé, but their gaze, often wistful and filled with surprising sadness, would always return to the same spot.
The string and woodwind arrangements of Kate St John bring Bacharach-ian pop colour to Williams's pastoral acoustica, while her quizzical, wistful and occasionally rude gaze are turned upon Stevie Smith ('Stevie'), a webcam porn star ('Sandy L') and the contours of her lover's face ('Glass Bottom Boat').
