| He looked up and found Alex staring at him, a strange, almost rueful grin on his face. |
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| The island's startling natural beauty can be a rueful reminder of what once was, up and down the Caribbean archipelago. |
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| He was dignified and rueful, but it was hard to imagine that it had come as a dreadful personal blow. |
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| There is a rueful self-deprecation at play here, at odds with a quiet desperation. |
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| That conflict produces the rueful sense of disappointment that all of Ford's characters share, and that he illuminates so well. |
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| His rueful recollections shed light on an often-perplexing artistic career, one that has left him looking distinctly battle-weary. |
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| Kay nodded to Ryan with a rueful grin upon his lips as he slipped out of his seat and moved towards the ladies. |
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| She gave her a rueful grin and hurried out the front door, nearly slamming into Kyle. |
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| Now they have nothing but rueful regrets accompanied by doubts about how much longer this partly ageing side can remain together. |
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| She exhaled, letting a bit of the tension flow out of her, and gave me a rueful grin. |
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| It is sorrowful, rueful, and pragmatic and not quite as heart breaking as many others on his album Northwest Passage. |
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| The smile she gave Wanda Bryk was the rueful, wan, chastened smile of someone who had just come through a crying spell. |
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| I have a quick temper which can flare up and be over in seconds, which makes me rueful, but at least provides bystanders with entertainment. |
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| Later, when he addressed a group of media people, it was in a reflective, rueful, almost confessional mode. |
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| She will never reach the age when the tumults of young adulthood can be looked back upon with rueful sympathy and without anger and vengefulness. |
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| The best of the slush is undoubtedly both lyrically rueful and melodically engaging. |
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| Huston merely strolls around on the sidelines, puffing a cigarillo and looking rueful. |
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| But remaining silent in the face of hatred is not a perspective, it is rueful cowardice. |
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| Though given to bouts of rueful depression himself, he could only burlesque the spectacle of an artist's self-congratulatory struggles. |
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| Morrison and MacLachlan play their dissonance not for guffaws but for rather rueful observational comedy. |
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| They are rueful memory plays, bittersweet family chronicles, compassionate portraits of oddballs, losers, and rascals. |
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| While this rueful observation is generally applied on an individual basis, it's also true of the world's population as a whole. |
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| You can only ever see it from an outsider and comment on it with the rueful wisdom of a non participant. |
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| A discussion of a London cheese shop sends her into paroxysms of rueful joy. |
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| But most of them must be delivered from on the peninsula, where Bob is standing, casting a rueful eye on the whole show. |
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| Put into rhyme, it would fit into many of the rueful, hortatory songs of the '60s, when truthtelling was praised both as a moral medicine and for its beauty. |
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| I have no difficulty, in France, with jusqu'à un certain point when accompanied by the open palms, the exaggerated shrug and rueful grimace. |
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| In Rosenbaum, Leverkühn's cold superiority mutates into rueful resignation, his diabolism into harmless eccentricity. |
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| Yet, as he travels from airport to morgue, waiting room to railway carriage, these bland modern spaces seem to tease out of him at last a rueful sense of guilt and blame. |
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| After the match, Tocalli was feeling rueful, wondering about what might have been for his fantastic team. |
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| The rueful words were those of losing coach Jorge Barcellos, pulling no punches at the post-match press conference. |
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| When nothing happened, she turned, and gave a rueful little shrug. |
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| And since trends have downward turns, included in the process is regret and removalin which numerous rueful tat bearers are now engaging. |
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| I attempt to implement a rhythmical and rueful independent voice alongside the violin, accordion and bass. |
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| A rueful smile crosses Weir's face as he remembers such descriptions. |
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| An older and rueful prime minister may reflect that some of the optimism felt on that spring day in 1997 is still around, and maybe he can take some credit for that. |
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| From reckless teenagers to rueful middle-aged mothers, Schappell agilely explores their vulnerabilities and the shifts in perspective that come with age and experience. |
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| In private he was quite frank and rueful about what he called the 'Plath fantasia', which is to say the great myth that had grown up about their relationship, which was inexact. |
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| Jade sees me reading it and allows herself a rueful smile. |
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| In Delia, Samuel Daniel turns from the reckless and rueful Astrophil in his persona to a narrative stressing the superior power of virtue and the eternization of Delia. |
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| When I asked Geoff Milnes what age the rocks were before they were turned into uncompromising gneisses by the Alpine orogeny he made a rueful face. |
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