Sentence examples for wistful reflections from inspiring English sources
The songs are up there with his best: haunting personal reminiscences and beautifully wistful reflections on how technology has changed our lives.
That's before Blaine Harrison sings "Deep down I know I should leave the past behind," one of several wistful reflections here on the passing of time.
His polished, if self-consciously literary, lines delineate an emotional terrain best summed up in a phrase borrowed from Mr. Sondheim: "sorry-grateful," wistful reflections on what is most precious in life.
Dido comes irksomely to mind here - if the driptastic single White Flag is any guide, expect new album Life for Rent to be crammed with wistful reflections on the end of her relationship with the long-suffering "Bob" - who, if he's got any sense, will take up with some perky Atomic Kitten next time.
Housman's reputation burgeoned in the 20th century, partly because of the support of writers such as Kingsley Amis and Betjeman, and partly because in the poetry of Larkin (who described him as "the poet of unhappiness"), there were clear echoes of Housman's wry, wistful reflections on a bygone England that probably never had existed in the first place.
Perhaps rather more pertinently, the Scot recently made the somewhat wistful reflection that: "Bolton have about three times Burnley's budget".
"Autumn Sun," one of several intoxicating ballads sung softly against an acoustic guitar, takes shape as a wistful reflection on her younger self before hardening into a tale of romantic infringement.
The most beautiful moment, "Hotel Amour," written by Meow Meow and Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini, was a delicate, wistful reflection on a futile search for love that melted your heart.
In his last public address in London, the pope spoke to tens of thousands at a prayer vigil in Hyde Park, and offered a wistful reflection on the buffeting that church leaders face in what the pontiff has described as an age of "aggressive secularism".
Yip Harburg's lyric, a fiercely wistful reflection on lost youth, captures this profoundly.
As this summer ends, that feeling of wistful reflection has to compete with a new feeling of anxiety and concern.
