Wistfulness

We look back on days gone by, if not always with affections, at any rate with a kind of wistfulness.

Bongani, now 15, but first compelled by his mother's illness to assume the mantle of adult and parent at age-13, hovers between stoicism, determination, and wistfulness. He is stoic about seeing to his small family's daily routines of hygiene, nutrition, and getting to school.

She was no longer the alert, vivacious American beauty who had charmed and delighted all who came in contact with her. Instead she was a very quiet and sad little girl—with an expression of hopeless wistfulness that none but Hazel Strong could interpret.

It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver.