All 3 Uses
wistful
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The Things They Carried
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- Some carried themselves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal.†
Chpt 1 *
- His voice was wistful.†
Chpt 20
- By our language, which was both hard and wistful, we transformed the bodies into piles of waste.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(wistful) showing longing or unfulfilled desire
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)