wistfulness

[US]/'wistfəlnis/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. 切望または欲望の感情。
Word Forms
複数形wistfulnesses

Phrases & Collocations

feelings of wistfulness

郷愁の感情

Example Sentences

But aides say they detect a bit of wistfulness in his voice.

彼の声に少しの物悲しさを感じると言っている援助者たち。

a sense of wistfulness

物悲しさの感覚

wistfulness in her voice

彼女の声の中の物悲しさ

a hint of wistfulness

物悲しさのひとひら

wistfulness in his eyes

彼の目の中の物悲しさ

Real-world Examples

It has a wistfulness to it, a persuasiveness that really gets you in the heart.

それには物悲しさがあり、心に響くような説得力があります。

Source: Appreciation of English Poetry

Maybe, she said with a hint of wistfulness, he could enjoy it with his own young children.

もしかしたら、彼は自分の子供たちと一緒にそれを楽しめるかもしれない、と彼女は物悲しげに言った。

Source: Past exam papers for the English major level 4 reading section.

And her filmy wandering eyes fixed themselves with an intensity of wistfulness on Mrs. Thornton's face.

彼女のぼんやりしたさまよう目は、物悲しさの強さをもってソーントン夫人の顔に向けられた。

Source: South and North (Middle)

Then, being twenty-two, she was apt to conclude the mystic interview by laughing at herself, though not without a continued wistfulness.

22歳である彼女は、その神秘的なインタビューを自分を笑うことで締めくくる傾向があったが、物悲しさは続いていた。

Source: Lonely Heart (Part 1)

He smiles warmly toward Cameron and adds with just a hint of wistfulness, He was a sweetie. But the sweetness of those early years would sour in cinematic fashion.

彼はキャメロンに温かく微笑み、物悲しさの一抹を含ませて「彼は優しい子だった」と付け加えた。しかし、あの初期の甘さは映画的な形で酸っぱくなるだろう。

Source: People Magazine

" Do you dislike my mind-reading" ? she asked, and, across their two just touching shoulders, gave him her sudden look of smiling wistfulness. " Do you hate it" ?

「私の心を読むのが嫌ですか?」彼女は尋ね、二人の肩が触れ合う中で、彼に物悲しげに微笑む瞬間を与えた。「それが嫌ですか?」

Source: Lonely Heart (Part 1)

We were in the same Senior Society, and while we were never intimate I always had the impression that he approved of me and wanted me to like him with some harsh, defiant wistfulness of his own.

私たちは同じシニア・ソサエティに所属しており、親密ではなかったが、彼が私を気に入ってくれていて、自分の物悲しさを持って私に好かれたいと思っている印象を常に抱いていた。

Source: The Great Gatsby (Original Version)

The oversize, silky, mutton-chop, sleeve on the aristocratic stone ledge, a picture which would be creamy with self-congratulation, were it not for a trace of wistfulness about his face, as if he can't quite believe all this success.

その大きなシルクのマトンチョップが貴族的な石の棚に置かれ、自画自賛でクリーミーな絵になるところだが、彼の顔には物悲しさの痕跡があり、すべての成功を信じられないかのようだった。

Source: The Power of Art - Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

Mr. Grew's chest collapsed, and he became suddenly conscious of his comic face in its rim of sandy whiskers. " That's not the only way, " he said, with a touch of wistfulness which escaped his wife's analysis.

グルー氏の胸は崩れ、彼は突然、自分の沙色のひげの縁にある滑稽な顔を意識した。「それが唯一の方法ではない」と彼は言い、妻の分析を逃れる物悲しさを含んでいた。

Source: Humans and Ghosts (Part 1)

I found a card for a funeral service for Terrence Weber, so I tried Frank Weber and discovered, with some wistfulness, that she had named her son after her beloved husband, who had died years before he was even born.

テレンス・ウェバーの葬儀のためのカードを見つけたので、フランク・ウェバーに連絡を試み、彼女が亡くなる何年も前に亡くなった愛する夫の名前を息子につけていたことを物悲しく発見した。

Source: Still Me (Me Before You #3)

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