The word wistfully has appeared in 44 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Aug. 16 in the Magazine article “Sean Paul Is Still Busy” by Iva Dixit:
Whether it’s at a grimy nightclub or in an auditorium full of emotionally stunted teenagers avoiding eye contact in Dehradun, India, there are a few things likely to occur whenever a D.J. puts on “Get Busy” for a crowd of the right age. There will be squeals of recognition as Paul booms “SHAKE … THAT … THING,” each word with its vertiginous pause. Then the delirious, almost incantatory hand claps will start to register: “It’s the ignition of those butterflies,” he told me. As Paul’s exuberant melodies combine with the boisterous throb of the Diwali riddim, listeners’ hips and waists acquire a sentience of their own, moving as if threatening to secede from the rest of the body.
This was true in 2003 — some 40-year-olds I asked wistfully confirmed this for me — and it remains true two decades later.
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