wistfulness 的定义
- a mental state or emotion characterized by melancholy, longing, or pensiveness, or an instance of this:The film’s visuals occasionally aspire to the dark contours of a graphic novel, and, at other times, evoke the wistfulness of a watercolor painting.It's an extreme novel that conveys its dark message with heart and many moments of wistfulness.
wistfulness 近义词
等同于 melancholy
等同于 nostalgia
更多wistfulness例句
- On some level, I can’t help but feel a wistful curiosity about a new Harry Potter series, because I still love the Harry Potter characters and universe.
- I became wistful just test-driving them, wishing these vehicles could ferry family and friends to lively get-togethers.
- “We know already about how the holidays can be particularly triggering for people if you’re already feeling lonely or wistful, if you’ve lost a loved one or a close friend,” she says.
- They always had a wistful, bleary, but satisfied look when they looked around.
- But the words “responsible” and “Republican” are no longer typeable together except in moods of mockery, or at least wistfulness.
- That gave last night's dinner with Ahmadinejad an air of wistfulness tinged with growing fear.
- Winston smiled, though there was a wistfulness in his eyes as he saw the faint bewilderment in his companions' faces.
- For at least five minutes he stood without moving, his whole face softened into a boyish wistfulness.
- She rose at this, turning her eyes about the room as if from the extremity of martyrdom or the wistfulness of some deep thought.
- She always suggested tea before the hour, and her friend always, but with so different a wistfulness, rang for it.
- I was awake at once––wide awake for him: moved by the wistfulness of this appeal to some perception of his need.