| 单词 | wishfulness |
| 例句 | The finale is “People Have the Power,” a song whose earnest wishfulness can feel awkward in concert settings, where it’s a pro forma set-ender. Poet and Punk: Patti Smith’s New Audiobook 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Here was a world just like the one I found myself in, portrayed in the sharpest, most penetrating language imaginable, free of piety or wishfulness. Reading Naipaul in Africa 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z It's about the indefatigable exuberance of youth, and the impossible wishfulness of it all. The boldest "Pose" episode yet: This shocking turn affirms the show's genius 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z “There’s a kind of wishfulness to the movie in that it assumes there are still scandals that could potentially demolish someone,” Mr. Harris said. Jessica Chastain’s ‘Miss Sloane’ Echoes Campaign Rhetoric 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z For this schlub, who seemed comfortable wallowing in the detritus of his wasted youth, has a fantasy life of wishfulness and regret. Todd Solondz's Dark Horse: Misery Loves Comedy 2012-06-08T10:45:56Z To the extent that the president has any culpability in enabling his son’s shenanigans, it probably stems more from guilt and wishfulness than from any criminal impulse. Opinion | I should care more about Hunter Biden. Here’s why I don’t. 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z That wishfulness sometimes grows so strong that it becomes an ache in our hearts. Illinois Editorial Roundup: 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z True, my companion clearly wishes for an FT or WSJ acquisition by Thomson Reuters to be true; so wishfulness may be coloring his sense of corporate ambition and the likelihood of a transaction. The logic of a Thomson Reuters takeover of the Financial Times 2012-02-09T16:02:42Z I never felt entitled to look at them as members of a service profession, which is what, underneath all the crisscrossing of need and wishfulness, they essentially were. My Life in Therapy 2010-08-06T12:00:00Z She asked her little question with something of the softness of her old manner, with something of the longing loving wishfulness which used to make so many of her questions sweet to her mother's ears. Rachel Ray Thayer made no answer, and she sat looking up at him with a steady wishfulness which made him uneasy. The Dominant Strain "Would it?" said he, looking into her face with all the wishfulness of a young lover. Orley Farm Olive saw the wishfulness; but she ignored it. The Brentons Now, with the avarice of love in her eyes, with wishfulness and defeat making their sorry signs on her face, she was a creature that even the humblest would have longed to help. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem A sickness of this world it most occasions When best men die; A wishfulness their far condition To occupy. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete A sickness of this world it most occasions When best men die; A wishfulness their far condition To occupy. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series While the mother was thus occupied, she kept looking across at her baby, who seemed to be watching her with comical wishfulness. The Lost Trail But he who loved women, and had never won even a wife, was filled with anxious wishfulness. Algonquin Legends of New England Her figure, drawn up with the intensity of her wishfulness, relaxed. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem I can also understand the wishfulness of those who oversimplify the whole situation by repeating that all we have to do is to mind our own business and keep the nation out of war. State of the Union Address Both of them were smiling bravely down into the dark-fringed blue eyes which met their eyes with a steady wishfulness. On the Firing Line Out of the very wishfulness of his voice, a terrible menace spoke: "I should like it so much that I shall neither spare you in word nor deed if you have deceived me!" The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest |
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