Word: wistfullness
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¶ Rouault (75), still hard at work on hog-faced justices, blazing Byzantine Christs with noses like thumbs, and painfully contorted acrobats, has come to look like a wistful old clown or a humorous old priest. He keeps to himself in Paris, suing his enemies for old debts and avoiding...
Richard Dyer-Bennet: Love Songs (Disc, 6 sides). Wistful love, Elizabethan style. Guitarist Dyer-Bennet's six songs include Westryn Wind and Blow the Candles Out ("Roll me in your arms, love"). Performance: excellent.
Boston's oracle took a last wistful look at the ster's paper tearing him apart. "If I could write without the criticisms of editors and monitors," he said cryptically, "I'd write like this."
"There he stands in his bulging clothes, fat, overfed, lonely, a bit wistful, seeing little, understanding less-the Conqueror, with a chocolate bar in one pocket and a package of cigarets in the other. . . . The chocolate bar and the cigarets are about all that he, the Conqueror, has to give...
But the Sun's editor gave the prize to one with a more wistful tone. Wrote Minnie Turnell, who at 45 has been married 27 years, raised three children: "I've often dreamed what it would be like to go away alone and be in a hotel and...