Wistfully used in a sentence

Wistfully in a sentence as an adverb

I'm still going to be thinking wistfully of the ties in my wardrobe, though!

They said this wistfully like they would never see that kind of change in their life. I asked them about their laptop.

I lived in Europe and Asia for most of the 1990s, and still look back wistfully at that time of my life. I gave up some early career "juice" but got so much more out of it.

I think I'm gonna go pull out Bayonetta again and sigh wistfully. edit: Oh yeah.

Sitting in Parisian cafes gazing wistfully upon what once could have been?

And it makes me wistfully sad for all of the missed opportunities. Yes, I was one of those who did an all-nighter outside a store waiting for win95.

But I stare wistfully across the sea to some of alternative choices, and I wonder how much longer that will be true.

[sigh wistfully for the good ole' days] And there was this round thingy on the phone that hurt my finger if I had to do a lot of dialing.

O_O Also, I wistfully disagree with you about the "highlighting creation" bit. I mean, FSM knows I want to agree with you but my experience so far says otherwise.

He asked wistfully what would happen if Apple had bought it. I answered that pretty much all the big players are motherfuckers that want you to do everything in their sandbox.

After all, FB can detect how often you message/chat with another user, how long you wistfully page through their photo albums, etc. etc...

Since switching to Apple laptops, I can do nothing but listen wistfully as my friends talk about how much they love Steam. The screenshots of Skyrim I see in online reviews don't look anything like the game I play on my Xbox360.

I do have to admit I was wistfully looking for this hint as a spoof, but I believe it's true. I miss grabbing the hardcopy in lieu of a watered down mini-newspaper on the way to the subway.

Sigh, one can look back wistfully on the good ol' days when you could post your add in a few regional or provincial papers and expect a decent response.

Found this really fun to read, a sort of 'how to found a company best practices' for the people who keep dreaming wistfully about armoured elephants and Alps.

Of all the mobile electronics I've ever had, I remember my N770 the most fondly and wistfully. next to my then modern HTC Apache Windows Mobile device, it was like an artifact from the future.

While I've never written a line of it before, proponents of Ada always have interesting things to wistfully say about how ahead of its time and slept on it was/is.

The difference between HP and Google is acceleration; the days of Bill and Dave are remembered wistfully, as they were not there for the decline and destruction. The days of Page Rank and Labs and excitement are dead and gone, as are the human days of Lestat, never to return.

Every time it happens, I dream wistfully about a world where people understood how to write software that way. It is, in fact, not all that hard: "All it takes" is to subdivide your application into smaller components that only communicate using async message queues.

20 years from now we'll look wistfully back on the days of online anonymity and innovation and shake our heads at the fact that a few jerks who make movies and music systematically crushed one of man's greatest achievements.

DMC looks at Yammer wistfully because it seems like a big score that was within his grasp. But I bet that if DMC had worked at Yammer he'd be picking a narrative closer to this: I worked for a lame knockoff of innovative companies like Twitter and Facebook, and we failed to thrive independently, and in the end we had to be sold to a dying and clueless organization like Microsoft.

It's easy to point to Alan Kay's research and then wistfully say that it will hopefully bear fruit one day, but that actually does a disservice to anybody working on today's systems that treat the user as a mature, self-actualizing owner - whether they be creating new software or making existing software more user-friendly. Setting the straw-men aside, which systems did you have in mind?