wistfulness

On some level, I can’t help but feel a wistful curiosity about a new Harry Potter series, because I still love the Harry Potter characters and universe.

I became wistful just test-driving them, wishing these vehicles could ferry family and friends to lively get-togethers.

“We know already about how the holidays can be particularly triggering for people if you’re already feeling lonely or wistful, if you’ve lost a loved one or a close friend,” she says.

They always had a wistful, bleary, but satisfied look when they looked around.

But the words “responsible” and “Republican” are no longer typeable together except in moods of mockery, or at least wistfulness.

That gave last night's dinner with Ahmadinejad an air of wistfulness tinged with growing fear.

Winston smiled, though there was a wistfulness in his eyes as he saw the faint bewilderment in his companions' faces.

For at least five minutes he stood without moving, his whole face softened into a boyish wistfulness.

She rose at this, turning her eyes about the room as if from the extremity of martyrdom or the wistfulness of some deep thought.

She always suggested tea before the hour, and her friend always, but with so different a wistfulness, rang for it.

I was awake at once––wide awake for him: moved by the wistfulness of this appeal to some perception of his need.