wistfulness

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Wistfulness underlies beauty on Svalbard, where the coal industry is giving way to tourism and to research into climate change caused by the emission of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

Wistfulness, promise and a tinge of nostalgia commingle in one magical moment; the music playing is the Rolling Stones’ “Out of Time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2021

Wistfulness for the way things were in New York before pedestrian plazas and Pinkberrys and hedge funds has become a thriving posture but Mr. Price isn’t so much a nostalgist as he is a fatalist.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2014

Wistfulness was in Dade's eyes when he looked at her; as though he wanted to ask if she also were relieved at seeing him.

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto

There is the gate of Free Inquiry as well as the gate of Spiritual Wistfulness.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various