wistfully

“We’d seen a lot of bands there, so playing there was like the dream,” the singer says wistfully of those early days.

He sang wistfully of the English town that shaped his life.

Written and directed by playwright turned filmmaker Celine Song, “Materialists” is the follow-up to the wistfully melancholic “Past Lives,” her 2023 feature debut that was nominated for best picture and original screenplay Oscars.

One commander looked wistfully at my body-armour and radio when we joined them on a patrol.

“All the things that might not be learned,” she mused wistfully.