wistfulness

Example Sentences

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Wistfulness underlies beauty on Svalbard, where the coal industry is giving way to tourism and to research into climate change caused by the emission of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

Wistfulness, promise and a tinge of nostalgia commingle in one magical moment; the music playing is the Rolling Stones’ “Out of Time.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2021

Wistfulness for the way things were in New York before pedestrian plazas and Pinkberrys and hedge funds has become a thriving posture but Mr. Price isn’t so much a nostalgist as he is a fatalist.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2014

Wistfulness upsprung as I reviewed my empty life, but rude reality suddenly uprose and obliterated ideality.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles

Wistfulness was still his dominant mood when he took his seat in the railway carriage the next morning. 

From Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki