He does not talk wistfully of a relocated brother or best friend he sees only twice a year.

He'd been talking wistfully about his dead wife, as he might to a daughter.

Older senators talk wistfully of a more civil era that they say has now largely vanished.

It is not unusual to hear some blacks talk wistfully about the apartheid era when jobs were plenty and layoffs few.

On the stump he often talks wistfully about forgoing the fall fishing season in order to campaign for the vice presidency.

A dozen years later, many here still talk wistfully about the wilderness they lost.

Often enough he'd heard me talking wistfully of joining an interstellar colony.

For years, the pair painted separately but talked wistfully of opening a gallery.

Nonetheless he talked wistfully of those days when "a stolen record always sounded better than one I paid for."