All 10 Uses
wistful
in
Native Son
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- "Yeah," Bigger said, wistfully.†
Book 1 *wistfully = with longing or unfulfilled desire
- her voice trailed off wistfully.†
Book 1
- Wistfully, he gazed at the edge of the blade resting on the white skin" the gleaming metal reflected the tremulous fury of the coals.†
Book 1
- He strapped the suitcase and set it by the door" then he stood at the window, looking wistfully out at the feathery flakes of falling snow.†
Book 2
- She was looking at him wistfully, half-leaning against a wall, her hands on her hips.†
Book 2
- He looked wistfully at that gaping black hole through which the rat had darted to safety.†
Book 2
- With a supreme act of will springing from the essence of his being, he turned away from his life and the long train of disastrous consequences that had flowed from it and looked wistfully upon the dark face of ancient waters upon which some spirit had breathed and created him, the dark face of the waters from which he had been first made in the image of a man with a man's obscure need and urge" feeling that he wanted to sink back into those waters and rest eternally.†
Book 3
- Buddy lingered, looking wistfully at Bigger.†
Book 3
- His eyes rested wistfully on the still oblong white draped form under the sheet on the table and he felt a deeper sympathy for Bessie than at any time when she was alive.†
Book 3
- Many times, when alone after Max had left him, he wondered wistfully if there was not a set of words which he had in common with others, words which would evoke in others a sense of the same fire that smoldered in him.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(wistful) showing longing or unfulfilled desire
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)