Wistful in a sentence as an adjective

Xkcd has been wistful pretty much from day one.

I am thankful for how things have evolved, even when wistful.

I'm waxing wistful for my first years as a parent and for the things I did and wish I had done more

A few wistful old high priests mutter about the beautiful thing.

Amazement, and a wistful longing for a simple freedom enjoyed in the distant, halcyon past.

To get that information about a user, you should need informed consent, not just a marketer's wistful greed.

It seems like every other day I read something which is wistful for a bit more 'enforced equality'.

" sounds a lot like wistful nostalgia for this gatekeeping behavior.

I understand the view, and I often feel wistful that if I see someone wearing a batman t-shirt there's a much smaller chance than before that he's friend material.

Take anything from loper-os with a massive grain of salt, he is a long-term troll who has been writing these sorts of wistful but ultimately empty posts for several years now. Calling everything and everyone stupid and bloated and yearning for the good old days is his thing.

But there's a big difference between advising against wistful investment in Bitcoin as if there's guaranteed payoffs, and denying that Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough in technology.

So I settled on just trying to mime the part and playing with emotions like when you're doing a bend or a vibrato, contorting your face with wistful wrinkles and tilting your head rhythmically like Santana would behind his sunglasses.

I get to work on nifty stuff for decades without ever worrying about being even "Ramen profitable".If I were in the position of Mark Bolas, I'd certainly be wistful about the billion dollars I might have had.

Having since done a lot of travel in the 'modern' way of nice hotels, rental cars and the like, I still get wistful when I see a couple of scruffy looking youngsters making their way on a shoestring cash budget but a burgeoning enthusiasm supply.

If diversity in language diminishes a little bit, while humankind enjoys better health, longer lifespans,[1] and other benefits of increasing worldwide prosperity, I will feel wistful about that, because I am curious about all world languages, but people should be at liberty to decide what languages they use, and when.

Wistful definitions

adjective

showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

See also: pensive