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• r  in a wistful manner
  his sister would have looked beautiful in that dress, he thought wistfully, just like an angel

• As 32 new Senators and old marched up before Vice President Garner to take the oath of office last week, two others looked on wistfully from the sidelines.
• Mine is that airline ad: the snack served by an obsequious wench to a young couple, she eyeing ecstatically the cucumber canape, he admiring wistfully the hostess.
• Well before the halfway mark, I found my unengaged mind turning wistfully to another current film about a family gathering in a bucolic setting.

News & Articles

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• The Day The Big Fat Junk-Bond Bubble Blew Up
  My friends in the corporate restructuring industry aren't breaking out the bubbly just yet. But with one eye, they’re gazing wistfully into the distant horizon where they’re seeing the first signs of a glimmer of hope.
  June 10, 2013 - Business Insider
• A fond farewell to Lower Salford Elementary School
  HARLEYSVILLE - As the grounds behind Lower Salford Elementary School in Harleysville steadily filled with spirited grade schoolers, chatting parents and nostalgic alumni under the hot sun on Sunday afternoon, Heather Kuch looked down at her hands and smiled wistfully, noting how bloodied they were on a similar afternoon a few years earlier. Kuch, 38, mother of two children who attend Lower ...
  June 10, 2013 - The Reporter

Quotes

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• Ed Rendell in guardian.co.uk
  Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Clinton supporter, said in an AP interview that he will vote for Obama "wistfully but enthusiastically" if Clinton gives her blessing.
• Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney Morning Herald
  There will come a time when Australians will look wistfully at $188 billion of debt and ask not when our debt will rise to that peak, but when it will descend to it,Mr Turnbull told parliament.
• Steve Ballmer in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  People like to think back wistfully to the good old days, whatever that meant, of rapid growth,Ballmer said.