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wistfulness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | hungriness, longing, yearning |
| Derivation | wistful |
Examples of wistfulness
wistfulness
But then a hint of wistfulness seems to flow through both Philipsz and her work.
From the guardian.co.uk
Fitzgerald's worldliness was European, but his wistfulness was uniquely American.
From the economist.com
Rourke massages it until it swells, and undercuts it with a touching wistfulness.
From the guardian.co.uk
Having risen from the streets of Paris he has the wistfulness of their shadows.
From the time.com
Wesner's drawings have a documentary feel that retains a sense of wistfulness.
From the dispatch.com
I felt a strange wistfulness for that time and an elegiac sense of that childhood.
From the boston.com
So his last State of the Union address had no Reagan-like, misty-eyed wistfulness.
From the washingtonpost.com
The wistfulness of Toothpaste Kisses has made way for something altogether darker.
From the edp24.co.uk
Today, Sierra residents look back on that history with a kind of wistfulness.
From the sacbee.com
- A sadly pensive longing
- (wistful) pensive: showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"
- Melancholia was one of the four temperaments in proto-psychology and pre-modern medicine, representing a state of low mood.
- (Wistful (horse)) Wistful (foaled in 1946 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred filly racehorse. The daughter of Sun Again and granddaughter of Sun Teddy is best remembered for wins in the Kentucky Oaks, the Coaching Club American Oaks, the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course. ...
- The state or characteristic of being wistful
- (wistful) full of yearning or longing; sad and thoughtful
- (wistful) (adj.) full of yearning; musingly sad (Since her pet rabbit died, Edda missed it terribly and was wistful all day long.)
