She signals her dreaming with a whimper: not a cry of fear, but a wistful sound.

By 1946, Garland's wistful lost-little-girl sound had ripened into a brassier post-vaudevillian trumpet.

Agamemnon made a wistful sound, almost a sigh.

Hecate made a wistful sound.

Some were in the house, more in the barn; she could hear the sound of a guitar from somewhere behind the house, and a single voice, singing something slow and wistful.

They'll be too relaxed, their minds full of three sets' worth of wistful sound and picturesque language.

She made a wistful sound, and it lured him closer, made him hold his own breath.

It's a wistful sound, and it takes an aesthetic position.

The Sept/Oct 2005 issue of the Chicago Jazz Magazine had this to say about his singing, "Monteiro has an appealing and expressive voice....you don't expect such a technically dazzling pianist to have such an intimate and wistful vocal sound...Monteiro is a consistently excellent vocalist."