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Example sentences for: wistfully

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(One wistfully pictures the lab technicians of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, with their beakers and flasks.)
Windmills are found everywhere, on tea-towels, T-shirts, or fridge magnets so that when you go the fridge to take out a slice of Dutch cheese (Edam or Gouda) you’ll be able to think back wistfully to your trip.
As John Broder describes it in the New York Times , the president responded with appropriate modesty and--if I can read between the lines or simply make things up, important things, things that should have happened--brushed away a tear, " 'I wish I could have done better,' Mr. Clinton said wistfully.
Meanwhile, George Washington University's Jonathan Turley, a devout Clinton foe, recalled wistfully in a recent Wall Street Journal column that for his "selfless act," Ross was "shunned, physically assaulted and ruined both politically and financially."
Best leaks over the weekend: 1) Documents indicate that John Huang's real-estate holding company funneled Indonesian money into U.S. campaigns ( Washington Post ); 2) Clinton personally lobbied the Democratic National Committee's finance chairman to hire Huang in 1995 ( New York Times ). Pundits wistfully alluded to the 25 th anniversary of Watergate and regretted that the current scandal doesn't measure up.