Word: wistfullness
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Though its pace drags and its tone is too unvarying, the movie shares the sweet melancholy of the novel. Both versions evoke a wistful longing for the irretrievable drama of youth. Teenage pals Ma (Liu Ye) and Luo (Chen Kun), inheritors of the bourgeois crimes of their doctor parents, are...
Senator Trent Lott’s calamitous experience last month illustrates the extent to which race—and speaking about race—still poses a dark, incendiary threat in American life. At issue in Lott’s case, of course, was his wistful allusion to a time...
Weisman uses the history of the income tax as a way of opening a door on American social history. Well before the Civil War, Americans experienced huge inequalities in wealth. But poorer Americans have often shown a wistful tolerance of wealth, holding out hope that they may get a share...
A good Saturday night usually begins in the company of close friends. The best Saturday nights, however, begin in the company of close friends, hunched over a steaming “Spinoccoli” pizza at Uno’s as Alanis Morissette strums one of her wistful ballads in...
While there are certainly aspects of this job that I will be all too glad to leave behind—horrible food, Carolina heat, communal bathrooms, etc.—the overall experience has been immensely positive and has reinforced my beliefs about the importance of gifted education. I plan...