Wistful

Asked what priority shopping was this year, “the gnome!” was the wistful response.

As the clock struck midnight, the sky swallowed the wistful days of summer’s rays, leaving behind melted ice cream drips and spontaneous road trips, impatiently awaiting their turn to conquer the dog days.

But it takes a special artist to do what Whitters has done: Here, she creates a wistful, immersive world, bringing the giddy euphoria of first love to life for even the most jaded listener.

Even now visitors to the Southwest Florida Eagle Cam web site, where cameras watch the eagle family 24/7, bemoan her loss and describe in wistful terms the possibility that she could return.

His Academy Award winning theme for The Last Emperor (1987) is exquisitely placed between wistful and melancholy.

How much happier I had been a few weeks before, I thought with a wistful chuckle, when I would have grabbed her purse without troubling myself.

If anything, it’s a bit wistful about the dissonances between wealth and lack and all the other forces that drive people away from truly close connection with the food they eat.

I thought it looked a little wistful.

Lovin' Spoonful frontman John Sebastian had his first and only chart-topping solo hit in 1976 with the wistful "Welcome Back," theme song for the Gabe Kaplan and John Travolta-starring sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.

Selena Gomez looks beautiful and wistful in series of new selfies.

Suddenly, Ward sounds very wistful.

That melancholy lifted with bigger, bolder rock numbers (“Burn,” “Primary,” and especially “Shake Dog Shake”) and slower, wistful plaints (“Charlotte Sometimes,” “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea”).

The anime tells a wistful tale of the impermanence of human and android life, and the feelings associated with AI.

The sentimental, wistful vibe made it a perfect song to play at weddings.

Typically, Burton makes films about wistful, death-obsessed outsiders.

ABBA thought they had the perfect song, a wistful number called Hasta Manana, which was more in the mould of previous winners.

But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world”—but it feels rote more than it does wistful.

Co-produced by and Harold Shedd -- the pair that co-produced all of Keith's self-titled debut album -- the song is about a man wistful for a different kind of life.

Every technology has its day, and once it is replaced, there’s no going back — except among some wistful aficionados.

Just as the song asks “Do you remember?” so too does “Robot Dreams,” a sweetly wistful little movie that, like a good pop song, expresses something profound without wasting a word.