wistfully

So the album opens with the familiar, always timeless voice of Steve Earle, telling the story of Hopper’s childhood, wistfully looking at the trains heading west and dreaming of the future.

“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.