wistfulness
Example Sentences
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As much as you might plan to stay involved in their lives through frequent video chats and phone calls, mild wistfulness can turn into intense sorrow with each passing month.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026
Singsong rhyme and meter are out; free verse and wistfulness are in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Omid, whose English surpasses Marjan’s own level, has excited such hopes, and the touchingly Chekhovian quasi-romance between them adds a gentle note of amorous wistfulness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2026
Amid the rebuke, brands have recoiled back within the antiseptic neutrality where they’re most comfortable: irrelevant celebrity cameos, cheap millennial nostalgia, unmoored wistfulness for simpler days.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2026
He must have caught the wistfulness in my smile, because he stopped chuckling, studied my expression, and said, “Vinye, why are you asking me all these questions?”
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
