wistfulness

But aides say they detect a bit of wistfulness in his voice.

a sense of wistfulness

wistfulness in her voice

a hint of wistfulness

wistfulness in his eyes

It has a wistfulness to it, a persuasiveness that really gets you in the heart.

Maybe, she said with a hint of wistfulness, he could enjoy it with his own young children.

And her filmy wandering eyes fixed themselves with an intensity of wistfulness on Mrs. Thornton's face.

Then, being twenty-two, she was apt to conclude the mystic interview by laughing at herself, though not without a continued wistfulness.

He smiles warmly toward Cameron and adds with just a hint of wistfulness, He was a sweetie. But the sweetness of those early years would sour in cinematic fashion.

" Do you dislike my mind-reading" ? she asked, and, across their two just touching shoulders, gave him her sudden look of smiling wistfulness. " Do you hate it" ?

We were in the same Senior Society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.

The oversize, silky, mutton-chop, sleeve on the aristocratic stone ledge, a picture which would be creamy with self-congratulation, were it not for a trace of wistfulness about his face, as if he can't quite believe all this success.

Mr. Grew's chest collapsed, and he became suddenly conscious of his comic face in its rim of sandy whiskers. " That's not the only way, " he said, with a touch of wistfulness which escaped his wife's analysis.

I found a card for a funeral service for Terrence Weber, so I tried Frank Weber and discovered, with some wistfulness, that she had named her son after her beloved husband, who had died years before he was even born.