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Example sentences for: wistful

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The richness of language, image, and imagination all contrast with her austerities and stringencies: Nothing could be further from the beloved middlebrow notion of Dickinson as a charmingly dotty, fey spinster or wistful girl, all eccentricity and repression.
Neither does he provide any answers to the problem, merely a wistful remembrance of how "good" it was.
The wistful conclusion: "[P]erhaps films would have allowed him to evade the gangsta rap typecasting forced on him by the music industry" (Richard Harrington, the Washington Post).
He moves on to talking about his redesigns for lethal-injection systems, gas chambers, and even a gallows, while underneath, Caleb Sampson provides macabre funhouse music and wistful calliope waltzes.
He added they should have been taken as "wistful," rather than literal.