wistful

The single — a beguilingly modest ballad with the band’s hallmark vocal harmonies and some wistful strings — put most fears to rest.

She still gets wistful and emotional, remembering an L.A. that lives on in music and the legacies of people she loves.

“The first story in that book was written probably 35 or 40 years ago,” Mathews says of “Individual Medley,” a wistful snapshot of a former competitive swimmer.

Unmarried and childless, Vera does not grow wistful wondering what she might be missing, nor is she given to the existential angst that so often plagues older male detectives.

He is happiest to be in a fight, and now that he has won, he sounded almost wistful, recognizing that he had run for office for the final time.