There is no pleasant wistfulness to any of these memories.
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The best books in this genre marry wistfulness with humor.
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There was a wistfulness to him that I had never heard before.
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That adds a layer of wistfulness and poignancy right from the start.
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Bella did not feel a moment of wistfulness about her own aging.
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It's a certain wistfulness about staying in you don't hear much anymore.
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Pretty much everything they have ever recorded is imbued with a wistfulness.
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Inside the magazine, Obama describes a wistfulness at leaving White House life behind.
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When Russo and Martin couldn't quite capture that wistfulness themselves, they called Burr.
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" Then, with a touch of wistfulness, she sighed and said, "Memories of Rome.
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But the slow, romantic jam projects a wistfulness that's clearly not about literal ghosts.
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And whether they're rooted in joy, nostalgia, or wistfulness, those surprises get very addicting.
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Wistfulness doesn't undercut the pop thrill — it's an essential component of the album's joy.
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The app's natural topics are babies and gardens, sexiness and ease, wistfulness and longing.
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"This drawing shows a certain wistfulness I think, a certain melancholy even," Clayton said.
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But sometimes, a kind of wistfulness for the land he left behind creeps in.
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There's a hint of wistfulness in Counts' voice by the end of our interview.
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And this time the source of the haunting was our own wistfulness and regret.
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"Wonderlust" captures a spare, yet nuanced sound that effortlessly evokes the wistfulness of autumn.
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"This is, like, our last tribute to Michelle," Ms. Elia said with palpable wistfulness.
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The subjects are certainly given to a poetic wistfulness that those Romantic forebears might share.
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I cried at every episode, once from sadness but more often from wistfulness and poignance.
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While Torres still has a bit of teenage wistfulness to her personality, Stokes is all pragmatism.
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The breakups, the frustrations, the wistfulness... it all creeps into her lyrics and pulls listeners in.
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Sometimes I think back on those blue-cot siestas with a wistfulness that makes me sigh.
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His popularity is tinged with disappointment over his failures and wistfulness for the optimism he espoused.
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For an agrarian society like England, the factory generated a wistfulness for the bucolic agricultural past.
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Doing so seemed to trigger, for the first time in our interactions, an element of wistfulness.
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But Ms. Craig's Bobbie radiates a longing that turns wistfulness into something close to existential anguish.
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Like a lot of Google's prototype elements, looking at early color swatches inspires a twinge of wistfulness.
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But I'll never truly be able to understand it and share in the wistfulness with younger millennials.
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It inspires a feeling of wistfulness, like a chaste kiss you can still feel on your lips.
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In the interview, he didn't express the kind of wistfulness for print that other editors might expect.
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Such nostalgia exists as a weird feedback loop—a wistfulness for a time when a guy considerably older than me tempered his own cynicism with wistfulness about getting older, over music that mined the work of his own musical heroes as a wistful gesture towards those artists' glory days.
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Her music, often cataloged as indie or lo-fi, sways with the wistfulness of groups like the Shins.
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Like "Merrily," it's contemplative and structurally bold; unlike "Merrily," it conveys no wistfulness for the way it was.
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There is evidence in her early writings of the wistfulness that would define so much of her perspective.
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Mr. Hampson sings with the care for words and wistfulness that have long distinguished his work in lieder.
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Even before the division of the peninsula, Mount Kumgang inspired not just awe but also longing, wistfulness, regret.
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The best Taylor Swift songs inspire a sudden, devastating wistfulness for a place or feeling you've never known.
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These numbers — featuring generally clunky lyrics by Sheik and Amanda Green — all draw from the same well of wistfulness.
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Strings and flutes line the mix now, new toys for the band to play with in their quest for wistfulness.
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It's tinged with wistfulness, as when an interviewer asks Ms. Patterson if she ever wanted her own children, human ones.
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Macy's In this piece of weaponized wistfulness, Macy's wields their most iconic holiday institution to go straight for the jugular.
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My funding saw me, too—I could tell by the wistfulness of its expression, and its faint, fiscally poignant smile.
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As with much talk about contemporary art these days, Rockburne's discussion turned to wistfulness about the way things used to be.
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We are immersed in a state of wistfulness, but we are not sure where, or to whom, those feelings are directed.
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Instead, I felt a mix of disappointment, relief, and wistfulness for the toll taken on a woman's emotional health and career.
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There's a sense of wistfulness among aging Cuban exiles in Miami who have been waiting decades to see the Castros go.
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"The love stories that I have found that are reciprocal are in movies," he said, with more than a hint of wistfulness.
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A visitor today can't help feeling a sort of embarrassed wistfulness for a time when people built such monuments for their books.
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Fleabag segues with canny purposefulness among earnest wistfulness and dismissive flippancy, scorching pain and echoing, hollow silence, giving equal weight to each.
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The score evokes influences as diverse as Gilbert and Sullivan and Kurt Weill, and is often suffused with an evocative, melodic wistfulness.
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"I keep it there because it has brought me nothing but misfortune," said Mr. Rebagliati, with more than a hint of wistfulness.
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Occasionally a note of wistfulness or melancholy slips into his monologues, but real regret and deep introspection are alien to his character.
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The mundane settings and slice-of-life story act as a vector for the film's wistfulness over the transience of the everyday.
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The Chicago visit is Obama's last scheduled trip as president, and even the final flight on the presidential aircraft was tinged with wistfulness.
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Here he conjures wistfulness as the waltz theme returns in the third movement of Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 — a dance tinged with regret.
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Molly McCloskey, an American writer who has spent much of her adult life in Ireland, brings a hyper-lucid wistfulness to the genre.
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But there was also a sense of wistfulness and finality that permeated the empty hallways, as the chances of salvaging a compromise waned.
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" Ma conjures the expat protagonist of Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland," who argues that "we are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness.
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A similar kind of wistfulness can be seen in Kader Attia's reproduction of a scaled model of an Algerian city made from couscous.
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In a study that included older participants, he found long-term wistfulness over sunken romances was not rare, but mainly a phenomenon among men.
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News that Mr. Trump would be the next president of the United States inspired an early wistfulness for the Obama administration among some leaders.
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It's more like a sudden, insistent fit of wistfulness, a yearning to become a different version of herself after almost seven years with him.
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The guitar emotively rolls jazzy chords to produce a yearning vocal quality, reaching the heights of wistfulness every time it follows the melody line.
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King Princess is one of many queer teen and twentysomething artists whose meteoric rises have filled me with joy and wistfulness in near equal measure.
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He expressed wistfulness over the people who approached him to encourage him to run, and told BuzzFeed News those interactions were weighing on his decision.
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The subject matter is too serious for the work to be characterized as whimsical, but a wistfulness hangs over the spare environs of the gallery.
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" With a hint of wistfulness, Hickenlooper added, "The fact that I've done all the things that the others just talk about should set me apart.
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Perhaps. Or, as some campaign staff members argue, their voices tinged with a touch of wistfulness, Republicans could vote to end proceedings at any moment.
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The retrospective offers, more than anything else, a sense of place, a quality of mood that is the '80s, gender play, homoerotic energy, and wistfulness.
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The sun squares off with Neptune, which is in your sign, on June 9, bringing some confusion, wistfulness, and nostalgia, and the energy isn't very grounded.
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The latest movie is well timed, to the extent there's a growing wistfulness among supporters as the president's eight years in office come to an end.
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Attempting coolness through nostalgia is a sort of wistfulness that clearly appealed to critics so much that this film won Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars.
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But you won't hear Rey every time Taeko opens her mouth — Ridley adopts an American accent here, turning in a multilayered performance of wistfulness and warmth.
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One of Wong Kar-wai's early works consists of two different stories about characters trapped in romantic wistfulness (one of the Hong Kong director's favorite themes).
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It has some strange little jewels of songs, though, including a title number (performed by Lee Remick's nurse) that is pure Sondheim in its aching wistfulness.
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But an unmistakable wistfulness — and a bit of defiance — also hung in the air inside the Colosseum at Caesars Palace during Ms. Snider's 90-minute presentation.
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Vocal lines flow from lyrical wistfulness to snappy declamations; dense big-band sonorities in the orchestra segue into lighter passages backed by a jazz rhythm section.
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Without any fixed plans for the event's end or its continuation, players and organizers at this year's tournament participated with a mixture of wistfulness and confusion.
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His fraught mayoral tenure is now regarded (notably by those who couldn't abide it in the moment) with a wistfulness for its efficiency and surface shine.
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You may also detect echoes of Mr. Sheik's livelier music for "Spring Awakening," which had the virtue of being performed with energizing anger rather anodyne wistfulness.
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It was an audaciously dull piece of work with banjos in place of horns, whispers in place of choruses, and limp wistfulness in place of joy.
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In Miami, there's a sense of wistfulness among aging Cuban exiles: They've waited long to see the Castros go, but they don't expect real change anytime soon.
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To a certain extent, Veronica Mars has always been about the wistfulness of nostalgia, which comes with the knowledge that you can't go back to the past.
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Think of him with the same wistfulness with which you might recall Josh Gibson, Buck Leonard, or any of the other greats who were denied by prejudice.
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For those who competed against Mr. Trump during the Republican nominating contest, and warned of his vulnerabilities, the skewering from Mr. Obama brought a sense of wistfulness.
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Darío's return still stands sure in the Nicaraguan consciousness today — there are books and plays about it — though I got the feeling the moment carries some wistfulness.
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I saw my former self in their monopolization of the chat rooms, their disdain for the growing sales team, their wistfulness for the way things had been.
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The story is propelled almost entirely without dialogue, and the colors used throughout naturally invite you to become absorbed by the wistfulness the game is founded upon.
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Some critics have duly dismissed "The Post" as gauzy nostalgia (though wistfulness for a time when pursuit of the truth was a more bipartisan affair may be understandable).
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When smartphones emerged, they brought the internet into spaces that were once free of them, so that a poorly functioning flip phone now inspires a hint of wistfulness.
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has its nostalgic elements, but what makes its low-key final moments oddly touching is the wistfulness over a sense of community.
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"A Fan's Mail (Tron Song II)" is not the first time he's written a song to his cat — but this time, wistfulness takes center stage amid the wit.
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What I really love about you guys is that you always look so fucking happy but the stuff you sing about is riddled with nostalgia and sadness and wistfulness.
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But in light of Trump, a candidate so manifestly unconcerned with saying the wrong thing, one can detect a certain wistfulness for the Good Ol' Days when "oops" mattered.
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She takes a job at a travel magazine, where she indulges her emotional wanderlust and natural wistfulness, writing about cities that are "more beautiful, less troubled" than her own.
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And she writes with appealing vulnerability and wistfulness about a fear she couldn't really get over—losing her mother, whose death galvanized Holland to start her fear-facing project.
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Cory Arcangel's portrait of Miley Cyrus on a flat-screen TV uses obsolete technology to create a rippling lake effect that could induce wistfulness — and a touch of seasickness.
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With a happy wistfulness, she speaks as though her father, mother, brothers, aunts, uncles, grandmother and cousins, who are all now gone, are back together, shuttling everyone toward safety.
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La La Land has enough singing and dancing and romance and magic to bring joy — and enough disappointment and wistfulness to keep it from getting too over the top.
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Rosenthal wanted the deconstruction and reconstruction to gradually tell a coming of age story about the wistfulness of adolescence, and the way important, sometimes devastating events can impact your life.
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"Rick and Morty is anime " is a recurring Twitter troll that's met with 50 shades of ironic derision, unironic scorn, and wistfulness for an actual Rick and Morty anime episode.
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" In his dry Midwestern delivery, tinged with a new and unaccustomed element of wistfulness, he said: "The beard is a good reminder to me that that was a different life.
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When Lorraine finally sings Bloody Mary's big song, "Bali Ha'i" — to her uncommunicative husband — it's with a tender wistfulness and a gaze that stretches miles beyond their confining living room.
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Opponents accused Mr. Khan of a mushy sort of wistfulness — of endlessly alluding, in stump speeches, to a bygone 1970s era, when life in London was ostensibly sweeter and fairer.
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"Another six or seven minutes without conceding, maybe we could have used that to our advantage," said Martin O'Neill, Ireland's coach, with a touch of wistfulness as his voice trailed off.
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There was a hint of wistfulness in Medvedeva's voice on Wednesday as she spoke about training with Zagitova and other younger skaters in a group coached by Eteri Tutberidze in Moscow.
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It's the TV equivalent of a hand-knit cardigan or an Instagrammable latte; a mood of transitory wistfulness appears to be the goal, not some chest-thumping artistic statement about Life.
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The neighborhood where she and Mr. Valdez live, near MacArthur Park, is "as close as you can come" to New York in California, Ms. Kraus said with a touch of wistfulness.
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"We're almost at the end!" she exclaimed with a broad smile, but also the wistfulness of a person preparing to leave behind a role in which she had come to thrive.
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Mr. Blechacz dispatched the brawny passages of octaves, chords and dizzying runs in the first movement, and then drew out the wistfulness of the Adagio, with its unquiet currents lurking below.
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A relic that persisted long past the point of usefulness, buoyed largely by misplaced nostalgia that will, as it did with the telegram, fade to wistfulness once Flash is dead and buried.
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For those of us who hear Obama speak now and feel a tug of wistfulness -- hoping we might again have a president so sincere, so eloquent, so deeply intelligent -- Beto feels familiar.
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I shake the wistfulness out of my head and start walking towards the nearest cluster of cottages, which is pretty far outside the city, more of an independent village than a suburb.
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Ms. Bullock can also blend wistfulness and elation, as is clear from her ravishing account of Maurice Delage's "Four Hindu Poems" (1912), performed here with the London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle.
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As for that propulsive sigh, it emanates from the title character called Hillary, who spends the surprisingly airy 90 minutes of this show in what might be called a state of angry wistfulness.
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At its center is Geena Pacareu, whose movement embodies wistfulness and breadth — her port de bras has an unselfconscious way of blossoming — as she remains just out of reach of her partner, Ian Spring.
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Hillary Clinton has officially started her search for a running mate, and no potential candidate has evoked more speculation, and, depending on who is asked, wistfulness or dread, than Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
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"Music is for everybody, and we've all believed this, and this was really one of my most important goals while I was here," Mr. Rattle said, his enthusiasm tinged with a note of wistfulness.
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The sorrows of rootlessness are much on the mind of Pete (Mark Blum), who has started posing a lot of existential questions to himself and his wife, Mary (Mare Winningham, doing stoic wistfulness beautifully).
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Lee is at his best capturing the everyday rhythms of his characters, the moments of daydream and planning and considering roads untaken, so that an unexpected wistfulness drives High Dive to its final, orchestral pitch.
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If the players in the First seem constantly to play Devil's advocate, questioning one another's musical statements, the Second invites them to collaborate on a blended palette of sounds and occasional passages of poignant wistfulness.
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Crucially, the kids danced more often than not off the beat: Mr. Leckey did not synchronize sound to image, which imbued the video with a loss and wistfulness belying its four-on-the-floor beat.
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Her work manages to express a certain wistfulness, with a rueful woolly smile occasionally emerging from the ratty swirls of colored fabric cords and sheep fleece she uses to construct her animalistic, slightly unsettling pieces.
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Couple the two and you have the makings of an enjoyable four-day weekend, one that might make you feel the same wistfulness for things loved and lost that is invoked by the movie itself.
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For his whole career, the British screenwriter has been one of the leading romantic comedy scribes in the world, with a sense of whimsy and wistfulness that set the pace for a generation of films in the genre.
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It is not your life, but one of the lives that make up your life, and the only one for which looking ahead, at least for a little while longer, is something done without wistfulness or a flinch.
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Their 1982 album, "Here We Are," featured songs with a classic rock sound like "Hey Sam," upbeat soul songs like "He's Just a Lucky Man" and a crooning cover of Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen" that amplified its wistfulness.
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By the end of "Principia," whose fancy Latin title alludes not so helpfully to Isaac Newton, this wistfulness has already turned into wistful memory, as all the images of the dance return in an artfully composed, meditative skein.
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But like the character in Stories Untold, who remains trapped in a fantasy of his own making, lest he finally confront what happened, wistfulness has the potential to limit our understanding, both of self and the wider world.
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There may have been a wistfulness in the music as she sang the words "holding nothing back like it's our last dance," but they also carried a hint of prophecy: Dua Lipa's putting herself out there with plainspoken appeal.
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An almost sepia-toned wistfulness settled over Mr. Obama the moment he stepped off Air Force One at O'Hare International Airport as he gave Mayor Rahm Emanuel — his first White House chief of staff — a fierce and lengthy embrace.
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Ms. Bowers's Ella, pensive and kind, is uncomfortable with the fact that others see her as "the world's sexiest ocelot," while Ms. Chatterjee gives us a Sonia who is refreshingly bubblier than usual without losing any of her wistfulness.
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"The piece aims to evoke the adventure, wistfulness, and ethereal quality of Syd Barrett, as well as the feelings of excitement and opportunity that he represents through a contemporary work," Neil Jones, Operations Director at Cambridge Live, tells The Creators Project.
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"The Great Leap" is at its most affecting when Wen Chang simply tells — or avoids telling — his own story, with a restrained wistfulness for chances lost that bring to mind the self-betraying monologists of Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" series.
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The same wistfulness I now felt also crossed Will's face when he recalled winning a single point against the great Jahangir Khan, and Richard Chin's face when he recounted his brief match with Ramy Ashour, the standout of the past decade.
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Now that Emo Nights are gathering ex-scene kids by the hundreds across the country, dousing their crowds in nostalgia, it might get harder to figure out how to indulge in that wistfulness when music becomes contaminated the way Brand New's has.
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With Rick and Cliff embodying the past and Tate the future, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood muses on the wistfulness of transitional periods in culture, as the excitement of the new inevitably means some of the old must be tossed out.
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They are the bedrock of a political party that has all too often appeared to take their votes for granted in the party's seeming wistfulness for their white equivalents (for whom the term "working class" has come to stand in public discourse).
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Don't worry too much about missteps: Regrets of action (quitting a job, say) are generally stronger at first but fade more quickly than regrets of inaction (staying in a career you dislike), which persist and can become a sort of passive wistfulness.
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As a producer, Eno's touch is unmistakable — David Bowie's Low, Talking Heads' Remain in Light, and U2's Zooropa all share with Eno's solo albums a certain spare, angular quirkiness, reliant on expanses of blank space, immersion in technology, wistfulness mitigated by cheer.
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It's a moment of whimsy that catches you off guard right from the beginning, yet the rest of the installations are very sober, and returning to it again as you exit does generate some wistfulness for a bit more play with the diverse collections.
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Thompson-King ends it with an Opera song "Wehmut," which is a German word for "wistfulness," that's totally out of left-field and absolutely not in line with the album overall, but Thompson-King's vocals are so spectacular I'm willing to let it slide.
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Doherty excels at affectionate character sketches tinged with junked-out wistfulness, yet beneath it all throbs a death wish that looks less like a posture each passing year, as the boyish man stumbles towards what may prove to be the mother of all midlife crises.
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"I belong to a place I left behind," she wrote of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, a runic phrase that weighs the freedom won by leaving the village with the wistfulness of her sense of permanent exile (she lived most of her life in Paris).
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When he applies dry pigment to a sheet of paper, as he does in " Untitled" (January 1, 1985), the muted pinks and blues come across as dusty and worn, like something that has been left out in the elements, infusing this abstract work with a soft tremolo of wistfulness.
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There's a wistfulness in both of their work that constantly comes through, where you're constantly being confronted with the stupidity and heedlessness of the cosmos, and people are struggling to do good and make a difference, but there's just this crushing futility that comes down on you, in both their work.
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It's not until the end that Ms. Bond lets in more air with a pas de deux for Isabella Boylston and Mr. Whiteside; there's a wistfulness, a quest for harmony as they dart toward and away from each other until he latches an arm around her waist and spins her right into a blackout.
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But the hands-off E3 demo I saw of the newly remastered Spyro trilogy (which includes Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage, and Spyro Year of the Dragon) not only brought me back to that same place, but also somehow managed to coat my fondness for the series in an even greater sense of wistfulness.
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And memories of the past were as prevalent as visions of the future: LCD Soundsystem's career-peak Sound of Silver traded in wistfulness and regret over a mélange of early-electronic record-nerd influences, while Animal Collective member Panda Bear fused his love for minimal techno á la Richard Villalobos with bright nostalgia on the massively influential Person Pitch.
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Reading "The Dead," with the falling snow and discussions about politics, the concern for the old bourgeois ways as expressed by elders, and the preoccupation of the main protagonist, Gabriel Conroy, with what to say and how to say it, is to reëxperience one's own nagging self-doubt, wistfulness, and philosophical questioning about this life and other people's lives.
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Wilson's weak voice finds occasional moments of resonance in lyrics written for much younger men to sing and think about, in particular the opening verse of "I'm Waiting For The Day": "I gave you love with a brand-new start / That's what you needed the most / To set your broken heart free," which resonates with an aging wistfulness.
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Watching Obama's farewell address, I could only feel a sense of wistfulness about the president he promised to be, and sadness about the opportunities that were lost when the new young president with large majorities in Congress failed to rise to the level of great Democratic presidents and instead left a legacy of Republican power at all levels of government.
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Two were former primary opponents: Marco Rubio, whom Trump never formally asked (though both he and Manafort called Rubio frequently to discuss Florida politics); and Kasich, who was viewed with wistfulness by the Trump team as the perfect choice, but for the likelihood that he would be a prickly subordinate (as well as the nettlesome detail that Kasich seemed to have no interest whatsoever in the job).
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Anyway, back in November, in the last-ever days of a pre-President Trump Earth, days I'll forever remember with murderous wistfulness, I pitched headlong into Facebook, submerging my face in the political-social swamp and rarely surfacing for air, scrolling, clicking, grabbing my phone first thing in the morning, looking of course for digital assurances that my perceived and preferred outcome was not just necessary but a hilariously statistical inevitability.
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One theory of etiquette holds that manners are best in communities with fixed populations: If you know that you'll see Tina again tomorrow (and Tuesday and Wednesday), you're less likely to surreptitiously scarf down the rest of the half-eaten boysenberry yogurt she left in the office fridge, because daily exposure to her yogurt-based wistfulness will start to gnaw at you, and ultimately turn you into a Munch painting.
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Wistfulness for the past is woven into human nature, and there are lots of words for different types of nostalgia in different languages — the wistful and evocative "saudade" that you might recognize from Portuguese music; "hiraeth" from the Welsh (who search for a cwtch, or a cuddle, in the comforts of their past); the Japanese "mono no aware," a reflection on impermanence; and "sehnsucht," a German word explored deeply by C.S. Lewis.
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Read our review Availability: Digital download Nominated for: Picture, Director (Damien Chazelle), Actor (Ryan Gosling), Actress (Emma Stone), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costume Design, Original Score, Original Song ("Audition"), Original Song ("City of Stars"), Sound Mixing, Sound Editing Equal parts joyfulness, wistfulness, and bittersweet melancholy, La La Land — a gentle, largely unassuming little musical about two would-be artists who fall in love over the course of one year in Los Angeles — is a disarmingly slight movie to have somehow managed 14 Oscar nominations.
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