wistfully

“It was a magical feeling, leaving daylight to sneak into a theater,” he says wistfully.

“My heart wants to vote yes,” Barclay said, shaking his head wistfully.

“I look back wistfully at the Cold War,” Inhofe said Thursday at a breakfast meeting with reporters.

Years later, John Lewis recalled to me wistfully: “There was so much optimism, so much hope.”

Throughout, these weighty matters are examined candidly and wistfully, with the wisdom that only age and inwardness can bring.

She wore a little red hood, and looked wistfully after Davy as the shop went out of sight.

Rosemary flitted about like a will o' the wisp, and finally went to the window, where she stood looking wistfully out.

He understood, and would obey; but his eyes followed her wistfully till she disappeared from sight.

He glanced rather wistfully in a puzzled way at the lovely little face framed with blowing golden hair.

"I tell you," he said, and turned his head to look wistfully up at the eastern coulée-rim, all tinted with the blazing sunset.