| But the more I thought about the matter, the more my feelings turned to ruefulness. |
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| Folk and country, romance and ruefulness, innocence and experience are all conjoined in their bewitching vocal harmonies. |
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| Today, as she tends her garden in a retirement community, Brevard considers her glamorous past with a mix of ruefulness and pride. |
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| There is a quality of self-directed ruefulness or self-causation. |
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| I told her about my coffee date with my neighbour last week, and we analysed with our usual ruefulness the mixture of mellowness and awkwardness that arose. |
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| The king's ruefulness was soon converted into rage. |
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