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
If you detect the slightest note of wistfulness there, you’re not wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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
All of the romance and wistfulness of the concert can’t undo years of heartbreak and resentment.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
A mixture of annoyance and amazement and wistfulness that seems different in retrospect.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
