| 单词 | rueful |
| 例句 | “The poor Colonel,” Alaska said with a rueful smile. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z They hated to see Lily go, but they were happy she was going off to college—though they’d never heard of Spelman, Lily added with a rueful smile on her face. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She gave a rueful laugh through a bite. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “My first day as apprentice,” he said, rueful. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Giver gave a rueful, anguished, empty laugh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z As I walked toward him, Papá turned to look at me, and his face broke into a rueful smile that didn’t quite match the sadness in his hazel eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Just long,” she echoed with a rueful smile, laying one hand to her slender neck and rolling her head from side to side. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Down in the bilge I lay, pulling my sea cloak over my head, while the rough gale blew the ships and rueful crews clear back to Aiolia. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As she passed, the woman gave a lopsided smile of rueful apology. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Tuck rolled over and made a rueful face at her. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, thought Mother with a rueful smile, at least Amadeus looked like his old self then. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He looked away and laughed, rueful and uneasy. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’d just as soon you did,” he said with a rueful smile. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the mature voice of rueful acceptance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “No, I — I left,” Ash said, sounding rueful. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Laila found him standing in his study, a rueful expression on his face as he surveyed his shelves. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The corner of his mouth pulled up in a rueful smile. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He gave a rueful laugh, turning the pick over in his hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z How Quinby would love to come here, I thought with a rueful smile. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z So did the rueful Rowe, but when a drawing was held to determine who would get the horse, Irwin came out on top. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, okay, so I have a lot of thoughts,” she says with a rueful smile. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z One side of his mouth curled up in a rueful smile. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The swelling disappeared but where the silver wolf had kissed was now a rueful scar shaped like an X. It seeped for days. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "I ought to know better than to argue with a Tully," he said with a rueful smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A rueful smile, a shrug, and a nod as if to a skillful opponent who’d made a good move at the chessboard: that was what her body said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Hazel looked up at the guard, whose face was rueful and whose body seemed cloaked by more than wool. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He gave the younger officer the rueful look of a father exasperated with his misbehaving son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In spite of her injuries, Afi managed to twist her lips into a rueful laugh. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice is rueful, but there’s no sadness on his face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “But no one cares about poetry,” Mal said with a rueful laugh. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Bud’s chubby face lit up with a rueful grin. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re right,” he said with a rueful smile, and commenced to teach me that as well. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It had been supplanted by a rueful sympathy and something not unlike affection. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Especially when she looks at me and gives me a rueful grin. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She started shaking some of the antimony over his scalp and gave a rueful sigh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Thank you. You look handsome tonight,” I said, returning his rueful smile. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “What would you do if I did try to stop you?” he asked with rueful mockery. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z When Elizabeth complains that Lucia “burns hot” and Philip replies “That sounds like someone I know,” their ironic, rueful smiles suggest that he’s thinking of a younger, more idealistic version of his wife. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Spy Games Are Exciting, Until They’re Deadly 2014-04-10T03:01:50Z Vogue sometimes seems to me as strange and dense and rueful as a novel, part Wharton and part, maybe because I’m reading his latest, Gary Shteyngart. Big Sisters 2010-08-20T21:20:00Z “I think many people will pay money to come hear a man make an apology, seeing that we’ve never heard it before,” she says with a rueful laugh. Review | Eve Ensler waited decades for an apology from her abusive father. She finally wrote one herself. 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z A sophisticated piano-bar wit, Eric Comstock, on keyboard, plays the unflappably suave saloon dandy tossing off laments like “Everything Happens to Me” with an attitude of rueful amusement. Music Review: Donning Sinatra?s Mystique, From Movie Sailor to Saloon Dandy 2010-09-01T21:56:00Z In interviews he has been giving to promote the show Mr. Sheen has managed to come off as rueful about his plunge but not really sorry about his disputes with CBS. Television Review: Charlie Sheen in ‘Anger Management’ on FX 2012-06-27T22:29:26Z Mencher looks back on that record with the rueful knowledge that his suspicions about the effects of Landmark clearing him were right all along. The nasty world of theater ‘clearances,’ and why it matters to filmgoers 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But the LA museum has more than enough of its own compelling tales: some are rueful, some heart-rending; many offer a glimpse into the unknown interior of relationships. A museum devoted to the wreckage of lost love 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z The narrative beats — moments of rueful humor, suppressed anguish and cathartic weeping — arise in predictable sequence. ‘Close’ Review: This Boy’s Life 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z “Nothing Yet,” one of Mr. Bruton’s songs, is a bittersweet highlight here, a ballad of rueful reflection that doubles as the album’s stealth anthem. New Music: The Dude Sings 2011-08-15T22:07:21Z Similarly, after Arden’s expulsion from her job at the concern that bears her name, Ebersole delivers an endearingly melodic valedictory in “Pink,” a rueful song about the color that made her a business legend. Much-anticipated musical with Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole opens in Chicago 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z In the rueful grimace of a mother on the subway, her hands enfolding a blond boy who could be a grumpy fallen angel, the strength of the expression and gesture convey an individual temperament. Stanley Kubrick: Before He Wrote Scripts, He Took Photos 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z “While Stephanie enjoyed performing it,” Ms. Johnson wrote, she was rueful that people seldom thought about her brilliant performances” in other ballets. Stephanie Dabney, Electrifying Prima Ballerina, Dies at 64 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z “Except to my therapist,” she says, with a rueful laugh. The untold story of lost star River Phoenix – 25 years after his death 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The problem with a crime drama that’s all grace notes and rueful jokes is that if you aren’t completely absorbed by the characters, you start to notice how generic the construction is. Television Review: Jackson Brodie Mysteries on PBS - Review 2011-10-14T23:14:58Z I spent most of “Just Mercy” devastated by its most rueful death-row inmate, only to belatedly realize that it was Morgan who was breaking my heart. Best Performances of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The rueful Twitter post noting that the meeting was generating only .5 tweets per minute, compared with the 13 per minute for the annual convention of the Modern Language Association held simultaneously in Boston? ArtsBeat: Historians Look Back, and Inward, at Annual Meeting 2013-01-04T23:52:38Z The rueful humor of the last sentence is typical of Ullmann’s prose, which is plain, succinct and declarative, with currents of intensity flowing beneath the placid surface. Exploring the Personal Legacy of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z There is rueful retracing here: “Just once I wanted / to hit & hold the person / who could hit & hold / me down.” Four New Poetry Collections Confront Despair With Wonder 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Yet by Bessie’s own rueful admission, her success and independence cost her dearly. 'Devil's Music' thrills with the bold, bawdy and brilliant life of Bessie Smith 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z He pulls a face, a little amused, a little rueful. Martin Amis: 'You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist' 2011-04-02T23:08:29Z And there are at least a few songs here that suggest the rueful side of unruliness, as the hard-drinking guitar slinger indulges in a moment of reflection. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-22T00:00:27Z On rereading, however, I found myself equally moved by Serge's rueful meditations on the uses of human reason. Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge – review 2012-08-17T21:55:02Z Many women I talked to had rueful stories of how the “Bartenders are male” bias had played out. ‘The line is crossed, and it’s crossed daily’: The struggles of female bartenders 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Food is the subject of rueful humor in “A Mountain of Crumbs.” 2010-01-12T23:49:00Z With the same rueful smirk, he enlists in the Army “because I’d been saying I would.” Review | Nico Walker is a convicted bank robber. ‘Cherry’ proves he’s also a must-read author. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Like that earlier poem, "The Seasons" is surely centred on a rueful love for the ordinary or "wordly". Poem of the week: The Seasons by Derek Mahon 2011-03-07T11:09:38Z Johnson and O'Hara share several lovely duets, their voices warmly combining although their bodies may not whenever they sing their rueful theme song, "The Only One." Review: 'Far From Heaven' pretty close to heavenly 2013-06-03T00:34:08Z As Richard, Matthew Boston has the rueful air of a man who knows he should know better, but who simply cannot resist the illusion that time will indeed stand still for him and Mandy. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Time Stands Still,’ in Hartford 2013-08-23T19:35:35Z The entry for March 15, 1982, when he’s so broke he has Cream of Wheat for dinner, gave me a rueful smile. David Sedaris’s Diaries Track a Path From Struggle to Success 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z He stood behind, bent slightly, clapping in even time and looking rueful. Music Review: Manuel Agujetas at Elebash Recital Hall 2012-05-23T22:02:03Z By his rueful final western eight years later, Cheyenne Autumn, it was rife. Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Missing this year’s harvest, he sounded more rueful about the four or five vines’ worth of table grapes he won’t be able to taste. Dusty Baker sees similarities in his team, wine and baseball 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The scenes served as a prologue to a satire in which Harris enmeshed the couples as rueful, role-playing participants in a mock clinical experiment he called “Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy.” Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z In the classically influenced piano piece “Nina,” she salutes one of the artists she most admires, her friend, Nina Simone, who cut a bracingly rueful version of Ian’s song “Stars” in 1976. Janis Ian Lets Her Music Speak Her Mind (One Last Time) 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Wearing a striped pointed cap, this circus figure of ambiguous gender seems simultaneously skeptical and kind, rueful and understanding. Tip Toland’s cheery, startling ceramic ‘jesters’ hold court at Seattle’s Davidson Galleries | Art review 2012-11-16T23:21:05Z And Mr. Hare’s 1995 drama, his tightest and quite possibly his best, delivers big on the rueful pleasures of that genre. Review: ‘Skylight,’ With Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, Opens on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z I play it as a rueful quip about the state of my romantic life, but in truth I’m deadly serious. Let?s Hear It for Aunthood 2011-09-17T01:51:44Z But they’re never boring or jaded or rueful or apologetic, after the fashion of way too much Western cinema. “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?”: A delirious, hilarious work of Japanese pop genius 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Photograph: Courtesy of Heather Wilson “I didn’t even think about getting Oskar fixed,” she recounted, rueful for about a moment. Worst in show: how the world’s ugliest dogs get competition ready 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The six songs of Mr. Dargel’s “Hold Yourself Together” matched his cool, measured vocals and vulnerable or rueful lyrics with Wil Smith’s playfully Baroque synthesizer lines and James Moore’s mannerly guitar. Music Review: Fragments of Egyptian Statuary Set Stage for Songs of Fragmentation 2011-01-24T22:37:30Z Charles Edwards's Aguecheek, arguably the best performance of the evening, is no mere ninny but an aristocratic manic depressive who lends a rueful sadness to the haunting line, "I was adored once too." Twelfth Night - review 2011-01-19T00:40:00Z On paper, Mr. Andrews’s book is lovely: sensitive and rueful and attuned to both the solipsism and the ethical seriousness of adolescence. Review: In ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,’ a Comfort Zone That Cannot Last 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But the final scene, in which echoes of earlier events flit past as the set vanishes into hollow darkness, suited Fritz’s rueful end. Music Review: Franz Schreker Opera Gets Its Chance at SummerScape 2010-08-02T21:57:00Z The book is narrated by David Aaron Baker, a Southerner himself and an accomplished actor whose calm, rueful delivery accords with the sly humor of this terrifically entertaining book. Review | Gore Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’ and other best audiobooks for summer’s end 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z But Hall delivers this chilling history with a tone at times rueful and meditative, as befits a memory she has lived with but contained like plutonium for years. When the Camera Can’t Turn Away, These Women Force Us to Listen 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Wearing's airbrushed image of the lad sits in a frame that opens up to reveal his rueful, handwritten account of what happened. The Henry's 'The Talent Show' winks at the camera 2011-07-07T19:29:04Z Given that the last images we have of this gang date back to 2004, rediscovering them after 17 years would always have brought an initial pang of rueful surprise. Middle Age Doesn’t Happen ‘Just Like That’ 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Hall's fine production brings out Ayckbourn's rueful comedy and gains from the cramped conditions of the Duke of York's where the beds are packed tight together. Bedroom Farce | Theatre reivew 2010-04-04T21:10:00Z Reviewing “Walking Happy” in The New York Times, Walter Kerr called Mr. Wisdom “a zany original with ruffled hair, rueful eyes and an altogether irresistible appeal.” Norman Wisdom, Funnyman, Dies at 95 2010-10-06T05:14:00Z Based on Bergman’s “Smiles of a Summer Night,” this rueful romance of middle-age lovers contains the song “Send in the Clowns,” which gained popularity outside the show. Perfectionist. Genius. Icon. That was Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The poem's surface is almost suave, the emotion well tamped down, with rueful wit and graceful playfulness preponderant. Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z She brought tender grace to the rueful slow movement. Review: A Conductor’s Exciting Return to the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z It’s rueful, bitterly funny, introspective, and all told in bites of 140 characters or less. Joshua Clover on his accidental hit Twitter tale #HowIQuitSpin: “I literally believed it would be the two of them reading it” 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But Sondheim’s rueful score captured the sweep and sting of regretful memory and abandoned hopes, and introduced the cabaret standard “Not a Day Goes By.” Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z After a rough night Wednesday, Lehrer may have gotten a rueful laugh from David Letterman. Lehrer's philosophy on moderator's role tested 2012-10-04T21:34:08Z Dr. Richardson offered a rueful college memory of not bothering to vote in the 1980 presidential election. For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History — or at Least the People Who Write It 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z They were rueful, but also pledged to do better. The Making of ‘Six’: How Tudor Queens Turned Into Pop Stars 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z For a moment, the ageless night owl disappeared, and the face of a rueful adult took over. For Alan Cumming, Life Isn’t Always a Cabaret 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z After years of posing for photos like a brooding 60s version of Heathcliff, here he is, a little disheveled, with wonky teeth and a rueful expression, telling stories to illustrate "how childish I am". Philip Roth and no complaint: not quite unmasked, but surprisingly charming 2013-03-15T15:23:23Z The musical, a rueful deconstruction of the unraveling of a three-way friendship, will be a production of Fiasco Theater, which is Roundabout’s company in residence. ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ to Be Revived Off Broadway 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Tucked amid the pastiche are good laments like “Taking It Easy Too Long,” a rueful self-evaluation, and “Love the Way You Walk Away,” a brokenhearted shrug. Playlist: A Confection of Pop, and Newport Chops 2011-08-20T19:45:06Z Mr. Robbins, who loves old Hollywood, is rueful about the dearth of great movies: a decay in Hollywood standards that gave Mr. Weinstein power, and cover, for a long time. ‘Hollywood Is Changing,’ Says Its Veteran Activist, Tim Robbins 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z The women are rivals, but as they play a piano trilling about lace and melodies — and everything else unmentionable — they form a rueful sisterhood that’s as emotionally persuasive as it is narratively dubious. Escape With Me Into the Trippy World of 1930s Musicals 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Well, the performance earned one laugh, at least — a rueful, belated one from Weaver herself, as we sat by the beach at the Venice Film Festival in August. Sigourney Weaver Has Us All Fooled: She’s Really Quite Silly 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “The only thing that’s depressing about it is I’m not getting any money from it,” Cobb said, with a rueful laugh. ‘Kind of Blue’ drummer still keeping time as album turns 60 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Maybe the title is wry, rueful, ironic, nostalgic and mischievous — all of which “Smut” itself turns out to be. Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z Maybe it was the slight sense of rueful nostalgia permeating Clinton’s speech that made his move-in day story so poignant to me. Don DeLillo and Move-In Day 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “It’s a $6,000 problem solver,” Mr. Muser said with a rueful smile. How to Open a Top-Tier Restaurant in a Pandemic? Rethink Everything 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z But what animates the movie, imbuing it with rueful feeling and nosing it down some lightly philosophical byways, is that the father seems almost as broken as the android. ‘After Yang’ Review: Do Androids Dream of Sheep, Babysitting, Being? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z This quiet, rueful little play needs to keep breathing in that final scene. Review: ‘Man in Snow,’ With a Lone Voice Hoping to Stay Connected 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z “Yours Unfaithfully,” Miles Malleson’s 1933 play, now receiving its world premiere at the Mint Theater, is a refined, rueful and often shrewd comedy about polyamory, written decades before open relationships were quite so openly discussed. Review: ‘Yours Unfaithfully,’ on an Open Marriage and Its Pitfalls 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet when he asks her to go away with him, she throws him a rueful kiss. Cultural Studies: ?The Good Wife? and Its Women 2011-04-30T04:37:02Z Tucker Carlson was in particularly high dudgeon Tuesday night, his brow wrinkled in rueful anger as he launched into a public scolding on his Fox News program. For Fox News hosts, the hydroxychloroquine controversy is fuel for the culture war 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z “Welcome to the end of eras,” he sings on “Emperor’s New Clothes,” sounding rueful as well as relieved: Farewell to all that, but not without a highlight reel. Review: ‘Death of a Bachelor,’ From Panic! at the Disco 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Their contending voices alternate in the novel’s second half, when Hoffman’s propulsive drama of a woman defying convention deepens to include a rueful assessment of the ways in which we resemble our adversaries. Alice Hoffman’s compelling tale of the artist Camille Pissarro and his mother 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z “I hope you appreciate how stressful it is to come up with lists like this,” Meyers said with a rueful chuckle. Seth Meyers Takes a Break With ‘Strange Adventures’ and Monty Python 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z “For the money,” he said, and smiled, in a way that was either rueful or proud. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z Based on a Goethe poem, the work starts bleakly, the soloist singing of rueful isolation over morose low strings. Music Review: Brahms for the Schumanns 2010-10-14T20:55:00Z And because this is decidedly Charlotte’s story, and a painfully realistic one at that, the jokes often elicit more rueful laughs. She’s running: "Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win" is the essential political novel for the 2018 mid... 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z There is plenty of drama in "Orange," and the laughter it provokes is often rueful, in recognition of shared pain and the dreadful absurdity of the personal choices that so often cause it. 'Orange Is the New Black' Emmy nods a win for women 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Yes, she says with a rueful smile, she well remembers that interview, and its emphasis on her ambition and her looks. Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!' 2011-03-03T21:31:00Z The stories vary greatly in tone and voice — by turns, raw, wry, rueful, comic, elliptical and confiding — but there is little sarcasm or snark. Stories of Wonder, Fear and Kindness From the Moth 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z She gave me a kind of rueful smile back. Perspective | Ask Amy: Toxic grandma strains family by asking for money 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z This line got a lot of rueful laughs at the screening I attended. Marriage Is an Abduction 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z These proceedings are filtered through Helena and Bob’s rueful awareness that they’re getting a tad old for such shenanigans, so their adventures become a sort of blowout goodbye party to youth. Theater Review: ‘Midsummer,’ by David Greig at the Clurman Theater 2013-01-16T20:40:19Z She’s rueful, amused, resigned and fatalistic in that special way that people are when they’ve been unlucky in love, but keep returning for more. Theater Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!,’ a Satiric Revue 2014-05-06T20:42:24Z When asked if he had researched Irish jigs for “Roaratorio,” he replied, with rueful amusement, “Two whole books.” Dance Review: Cunningham and Cage?s ?Roaratorio,? a ?Legacy Tour? Revival 2010-06-07T22:15:00Z One young Israeli participant said, “Even if I looked at the piano, I felt pain,” while casting a rueful glance at the instrument of torture during his private lesson. Critic’s Notebook: Golandsky Institute Helps Musicians Avoid Pain 2012-07-19T21:52:06Z Rumours is McCartney-ish English psychedelia with a rueful lyric about a jealous would-be suitor spreading untruths, lifted out of the workaday by Mark "Teenage Opera" Wirtz's ornate production. Readers recommend: songs about gossip ? the results 2011-03-03T13:03:50Z His rueful tone of voice, however, indicated that he wished Bunny Mellon’s quiet, assured, and above all intelligently refined elegance were far more appreciated these days. AD Honors Bunny Mellon 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z “As you well know, it’s required,” he said with a rueful chuckle. Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of ‘The Last Ship’ 2013-09-12T12:00:01Z Explosions of laughter duly greet this plain-spoken dowager’s rueful observations about the decaying graces of the world. Peters and Stritch in ?A Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T01:58:00Z Some of Banks's characters are rueful commentators on this inclination. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-07-27T21:50:00Z The story is full of emotion and danger, heroism and treachery, but it is told in a mood of rueful retrospect rather than simmering partisan rage. ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ Looks at Fall of Saigon 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Lasting damage and lasting loyalties are equally part of the human condition, Bock reminds us in an elegantly rueful epilogue set in 2010: Death happens, and life goes on. If you don’t hate insurance companies already, you will after reading this novel 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z This caution is helpful for considering someone like Louis C. K., whose rueful, self-deprecating comedy makes him seem less depraved than he is. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Bulbous of nose, white of coif, gravelly of voice, Puri projects such a delicious air of gruffness and what-me? fake innocence that he threatens to flip the film into altogether more rueful and salty territory. The Hundred-Foot Journey first look review – romance on the menu 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z And there is a poignancy, too, to the deep and rueful knowledge of the ravages of alcohol laid so bare in “Big Blonde.” Elaine Stritch Gives New Voice to Dorothy Parker’s Tales of Social Life, and Private Pain 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Her body arches with tension when she realises her annual holiday with Karen will be shared with Joe, and there is a great moment when, left alone, she stares at a table in rueful stillness. The Children's Hour - review 2011-02-10T00:54:20Z Barnes’s Shostakovich concludes the novel a sort of rueful postmodernist, worried whether the game of codes and doublespeak he has been playing all his life has shielded him from true political or artistic commitment. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Rather than echoing Mansbach’s rueful wretchedness, “The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep” offers parents hope: the idea that encoded in its text is a formula for somnolence. The Parent Who Wants to Fall Asleep 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z And as Jackie’s own “mum,” Hilary Tones anchors with a rueful awareness of life’s regrets a clipped narrative that seems peculiarly divorced from the decades it traverses. Theater Review: ‘‘Elegy,’’ ‘‘My Mother Said I Never Should’’ and ‘‘The Suicide’’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z “And those two songs were the hits,” the singer says with a rueful chuckle. Barry Manilow Just Wanted to Write the Songs. He’s Still Singing Them. 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Slow-paced, sad, rueful and sometimes warmly funny, “After the Storm” is one of his sturdiest, and most sensitive, constructions. Review: Intimate Struggles Come to Life in ‘After the Storm’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Or as she says, in rueful triumph: “I wasn’t trying to hurt you. I was only trying to breathe.” Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Smith delivers Acandre’s big final speech — which brings to mind Prospero’s “our revels now are ended” soliloquy — with a rueful knowledge that may well bring tears to your eyes. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z True, she’s looking for someone with whom to father a child, undeterred, it seems, by a recent miscarriage, a sad event she nonetheless saw fit to mine for rueful comedy. For Margaret Cho, Nothing Is Too Private for a Punch Line 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z He displays a rueful resilience and a remarkably generous spirit throughout these pages. ‘Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up With Hunter S. Thompson’ review 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z His Rebus demonstrates the rueful intelligence that is part of the Cromwell persona, but he's a bit too north-of-the-border for this scion of the Southwark streets. Who should play Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell? 2013-01-24T14:32:00Z It’s a description and perhaps a rueful suggestion of what the show could be if it weren’t as firmly dedicated to being smart entertainment. Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Season 2 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z When asked if she still entertains suicidal thoughts, Lemak responds with a short, rueful laugh. Lemak: 'They didn't get to live their lives' 2012-03-25T19:40:00Z Not quite the rueful Graham Greene-esque inhabitation of a grey area promised by the title. A Hijacking and The Reluctant Fundamentalist announce a new narrative order 2013-05-15T12:47:25Z Lift-off is poetic, the inevitable return to Earth prosaic: Holmes dodges throughout between sublimity and a rueful, comical bathos. Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes – review 2013-04-22T07:00:01Z Mr. Rollins, the tenor saxophonist who at 84 is upheld as one of jazz’s greatest improvisers and a living embodiment of its ideals, comes across as rueful and cowed in the piece. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Rather than a rueful tragedy, it is — so far — a Horatio Alger tale of aspirational capitalism, one that adds systemic racism and automatic weapons to the barriers facing the hero. ‘Snowfall’ Review: To Live, Love and Die in 1980s L.A. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z Last year’s “Make My Head Sing” is her first album without Auerbach at the helm, and it’s a collection of rueful, understated folk songs. Your week in Seattle music: Meghan Trainor, Hozier and more 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z And yet all of them are viewed with a measure of rueful compassion. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It effectively masquerades, for almost half its running time, as a rueful, fast-moving comedy of middle-aged resignation and rebellion. Movie Review: ‘World’s End’ Continues ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and ‘Hot Fuzz’ 2013-08-22T21:06:38Z Talk to any busy person nowadays about the joys of email, for example, and the most common response is a rueful shrug. Improve efficiency ? switch off your smartphone 2012-05-19T23:05:54Z But maybe it can explain that, for a few rueful minutes, a wall had come down — or gone up. The Slap Wasn’t the Only Astonishing Thing About the Oscars 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z It includes a cheeky, rueful stage direction for a male actor and a hunky puppet: “side by side, they simulate a sexual act, which means this play will never be performed in Texas.” With Her Eerily Timely “Indecent,” Paula Vogel Unsettles American Theatre Again 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z The singer mingles tart observations and rueful backward glances in a voice that couches its bluntness in dreamy beauty. Sharon Van Etten learns how to share 2012-02-08T22:14:00Z In his review in The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that despite its flaws, “The Dining Room” was “often funny and rueful and, by the end, very moving.” A.R. Gurney, Playwright Who Explored Upper-Crust Anxieties, Dies at 86 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Through the rueful voices of former trainers and whale experts, a narrative driven by disillusion and regret unfolds as the trainers point to a gap between SeaWorld’s public image and behind-the-scenes reality. Movie Review: ‘Blackfish,’ a Documentary, Looks Critically at SeaWorld 2013-07-18T21:04:41Z Though Tom is the movie’s main character, it adopts her point of view in order to observe Will, from the outside, with rueful empathy. Review: “Leave No Trace” Explores the Ground in Which Poisonous Politics Grow 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Age tends to creep into their talks as a rueful metaphysical truth and blunt existential fact, but that same night Mitch also gets stoned with a young guy in a club bathroom. ‘Land Ho!’ Sends Men of a Certain Age to Iceland 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z But he brought calming dignity to his portrayal, and conveyed Sarastro’s rueful awareness of how the world works outside his enlightened brotherhood. Music Review: A Streamlined ?Magic Flute,? Reimagined by Peter Brook 2011-07-07T22:03:44Z The performance has the feel of an after-hours slow dance, suiting the ruminating lyrics and inspiring one of Dylan’s best late-period vocal performances – by turns rueful, wistful and impish. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z He answered me with a rueful shrug, accompanied by one word: “Pocahontas.” Perspective | Trump won’t stop coining nasty nicknames for his foes — but the media must stop amplifying them. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z With its vocal melody changed, Wonderwall sounds surprisingly rueful and crestfallen, while Slide Away – a song even the most fervent Oasis-loather might be forced to admit is pretty magnificent – is underpinned by a nagging doubt. Noel Gallagher | Pop review 2010-03-26T21:30:00Z His work — rueful, cerebral, gloriously smutty — includes trance poetry and automatic writing. Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Often, this insight is accompanied by the rueful observation that tweeting is easy. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z “My reaction is one of great sadness,” he told The Washington Post this week, sounding more rueful than rebuked. How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z He was in fact an avowed anti-fascist — in his politics, and in his funny, rueful war-weariness, he belongs to the lineage of Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut. In Praise of Karel Capek 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z But it is also steeped in a rueful awareness that such attempts are doomed to fail. Review: Lies of Love and Memory Swirl Through ‘Unknown Soldier’ 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z I found him newly contemplative, rueful and somewhat less of a hot dog than before, at least for this one episode, but he still needs to work on impulse control. 'The Americans' Recap: Mother Russia and Her Children 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z It would be wrong to say he’s not rueful about the withering of legacy publications. Review: In ‘The Accidental Life,’ Golfing on LSD Is Just Part of an Editor’s Job 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z William McPherson, a novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for The Washington Post who won late-life acclaim for a rueful essay describing his descent into poverty, died on Tuesday in Washington. William McPherson, Book Critic and Novelist, Dies at 84 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z In the morning, Darcy is rueful about the sex and tersely pre-empts any notion of reviving their relationship by stating that he doesn’t want to use up any more of Jones’s childbearing years. Bridget Jones’s Latest Movie, Now a Novel 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The show opens with the rueful “Wedding Vows” and closes with the assertive “Better Glad Than Mad.” Theater Review: ‘Til Divorce Do Us Part,’ a Musical Based on Real Life 2014-02-20T23:44:04Z Milt Moss, a comic actor who delivered the rueful catchphrase “I can’t believe I ate that whole thing” in a memorable commercial for Alka-Seltzer in 1972, died on Sept. 26 in Manhattan. Milt Moss, Actor in Classic Alka-Seltzer Ad, Is Dead at 93 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z As with so many such projects, Neon Indian is the brainchild of one composer, Alan Palomo, and the music he's made is nostalgic, occasionally rueful, but always tuneful. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z But, for all the production's jollity, I still yearn to see Marivaux's play presented as rueful comedy rather than rompy farce. The Game of Love and Chance ? review 2011-04-08T17:55:21Z “So here’s the clincher,” the director-choreographer says with a rueful laugh. The pandemic was the final blow for some dance companies. How do the survivors stay nimble? 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Volunteer: The rueful look you received was an invitation for you to acknowledge this other person’s efforts. Perspective | Ask Amy: Toxic grandma strains family by asking for money 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s a rousing line that left me feeling rueful: In reality, mainstream histories of Britain have largely excluded the story of the Mangrove defendants, as well as the stories of other pioneering Black figures. In ‘Small Axe,’ Steve McQueen Explores Britain’s Caribbean Heritage 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Her new novel, “Bowlaway,” is a rueful family saga that begins at the start of the 20th century and revolves around a bowling alley in the small town of Salford, Mass., north of Boston. Review | It’s been 18 years since Elizabeth McCracken’s last novel. ‘Bowlaway’ was worth the wait. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Holsinger catches these parents committing, in Rose’s rueful words, a “collective crime against childhood.” How a Novel Can Unmake the Myth of Meritocracy 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z But Ms. Walter’s wizard is a man of rueful contemplation, too, conscious of himself as a victim of his own hunger for control, and wrenchingly unresolved about the traitorous enemies he must forgive. Review: In ‘The Tempest,’ Liberation and Exhilaration 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The bloodletting heartbreakers are, of course, the most mesmerizing performances: the rueful “God Bless the Child,” the harrowing protest song “Strange Fruit.” Theater Review: Audra McDonald in ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ 2014-04-14T02:00:01Z One look at Ms. Lavin’s face — amused and rueful, resigned and impatient at the same time — and you know exactly what he means. Review: ‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair,’ a Play About Unmoored Lives 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Aaron is of course the story-teller-in-chief, and it his wry and rueful recollections of that season in Levittown that frame the proceedings. Review: Waiting to Connect in Levittown in ‘The Babylon Line’ 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z “I was so heavy at my bar mitzvah that no one recognized me,” he said with a rueful laugh. When a Child?s Anxieties Need Sorting 2011-06-03T20:33:06Z Between episodes of professional breakdown, he’s given to rueful inner monologues on the theme of futility. In This Norwegian Novel, an Old-School Waiter Tries to Keep Up the Old Ways 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z A gentle, rueful play, directed with a steady and sympathetic hand by Tyne Rafaeli, it settles down among six passengers sharing a single coach. ‘The Coast Starlight’ Review: Strangers on a Train 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z “You know, when I was young, I was fascinated by the Algonquin Round Table, by all those witty alcoholics,” he said, with a rueful laugh. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Broadway – Nathan Lane! 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Rusbridger’s anguish over the assault on fact is leavened by rueful recognition that Trump’s abuses, in partnership with social media’s penchant for magnifying them, may carry a pale silver lining. A Revolution for Journalism — or a Death Knell? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Shar blows a short burst of smoke out of her mouth and makes a rueful sort of sound, nodding her head over and over. NW by Zadie Smith – extract 2012-08-17T21:55:12Z “All my fantasies included marriage,” Ms. Jong wrote in one of her character’s rueful reveries. ‘Fear of Flying’ by Erica Jong, 40 Years Later 2013-12-19T00:00:45Z When Brett’s wife says that she wasn’t a racist until she moved into their crummy neighborhood, her rueful delivery suggests that she was regrettably forced — dragged across concrete, perhaps — into prejudice. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Buster pops an M&M in her mouth and gives a rueful smile. Extreme haunted house: inside the real life kingdom of masochists 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Cue the partying, family disputes, zany hookups and rueful murmurs. In ‘Hollidaysburg,’ Friends Gather During Thanksgiving 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Noah Baumbach’s comedy of manners, “While We're Young,” due out next year, addresses themes of middle-aged obsolescence and the yearning to stay young with rueful familiarity. From ‘Birdman’ to Zellweger: the actor as screen object But it's a rueful acceptance - and that rue is unnecessary. Motherlode Blog: Children, Choosing Their Religion 2013-01-03T18:00:47Z In a quietly rueful yet otherwise humorous sisterly conversation while they stop for dinner outside a car repair shop, Yelena discloses the fake story about her family that she often gives to strangers. “Black Widow” challenges treatment of women without biological families as disposable 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Taking place during the movie's last act, Joe's rueful confession seems to be what "The Guilty" wants the audience to take away from the film. Netflix's "The Guilty" isn't as progressive and critical of cops as it pretends to be 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z And yet we still name him a comedian; rueful laughter is still laughter. Gallows humor in the age of #BlackLivesMatter: “Key & Peele” returns and “Why? with Hannibal Buress” premieres, not a moment too soon 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z As a teenager, I thought this depiction of creation — and the combination of rigor and abandon that it requires — ended on a note that was equal parts proud and rueful. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Cromer successfully creates a Chekhovian atmosphere with Nelson's script, with some characters reminiscing out loud while others experience quiet, sometimes rueful epiphanies. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z How wrong I was about the rueful part. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Harsh economics often supply the punchline, so that the wit has a tinge of rueful sympathy. Review | The appeal of ‘And I Do Not Forgive You’ is hard to articulate but impossible to resist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Like Chekhov, Mr. Margulies is a specialist in rueful regrets and misty glimpses of roads not taken. Blythe Danner Stars in ‘The Country House’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z There’s a muffled element of rueful comedy in the dramatic setup—as if viewers themselves would need to be held captive in order to spend an hour or so observing the lives of Mongolian herders. “Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia” and the Question of the Substance of Style 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The exhibition ends on a rueful note with a brief section about playgrounds that includes a model for a pastoral playground by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi from 1961. ‘Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000’ at MoMA 2012-07-26T16:28:17Z Her recent documentaries, while not exactly confessional, are unabashedly personal, infused with her voice, her eye, her wry and rueful on-camera presence. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z That also means that I view the events of "Moneyball" through a rueful prism, since Beane and the team have struggled through some lean years since the explosive drama of '02. "Moneyball": Brad Pitt's wonk-friendly Oscar contender 2011-09-23T00:01:00Z It’s not a memorable ride, but there’s enough rueful humor, tropical sensuality and borrowed style along the way to make it pleasant. | 'Carmo, Hit the Road': Romance in Brazil?s Wild West 2010-10-15T00:49:00Z In 1997, she wrote a rueful poem called “Regret,” whose coda echoed an essay on addiction by one of her idols, the French writer Marguerite Duras: The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z "It's really terrible," Byrd says with a rueful shrug. Cunningham Legacy Tour almost skipped Seattle 2011-10-23T18:48:04Z The familiar wonder and mirthfulness of his voice has a note of rueful loss. Watching ‘Our Planet,’ Where the Predator Is Us 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Nicer still, she added with a rueful smile, because she and traditional schooling never quite got along. On the Runway: A New Title for Angela Missoni 2014-02-26T15:31:49Z A key text for students aspiring to become industry movers and shakers will undoubtedly be Hook's own rueful 2009 memoir, How Not to Run a Club. Manchester's Hacienda and Peter Hook inspire new university master's course 2012-06-26T00:00:01Z It is now Gay Rage Month,’ ” Walcott said with a rueful laugh. At New York’s Pride weekend, a noticeable cloud from the Supreme Court 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z It is just one of the multiple beating hearts that power this evolved, snarky, rueful, euphoric and valedictory record, one that improves with every listen. LCD Soundsystem: This is Happening 2010-05-15T23:08:00Z The women are playful—nearly mocking—as they mouth Bieber’s rueful lyrics through red lips. A Void Where Justin Bieber Usually Is 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z “Falstaff” also never stops moving, its almost ceaseless action sometimes joyful, sometimes rueful, sometimes frantic. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z His asides and observations, as he witnesses his master’s vertiginous fall into penury and madness, are as rueful as they are clever and cogent. A ‘King Lear’ that hasn’t fully flowered, at Seattle Shakes 2014-05-01T16:58:52Z Two years later, Laurents had one of his biggest successes, "The Time of the Cuckoo," a rueful comedy about a lonely spinster who finds romance in Venice with an already married Italian shopkeeper. 'Gypsy' playwright Arthur Laurents dies in NYC 2011-05-06T03:47:09Z Eno takes a rueful sip of his Flor de Jamaica hibiscus tea – a choice of beverage that might seem to confirm his point. Surrender. It's Brian Eno 2010-04-28T20:35:00Z In the NBC News Washington bureau, where Williams was never a popular figure, his return has prompted “a rueful acceptance,” as one news staffer put it. At long last, Brian Williams is back — humbled and demoted to MSNBC 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z She added, to rueful laughter, “I will be counting on PEN Center USA to bail me out.” The PEN Center USA awards keyed into a cultural moment 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Her younger sister is currently applying to colleges, and the two sisters had a rueful laugh on Christmas when their cousin in Austin asked if there were any Texas universities on the shortlist. My mom finally made her choice, after a lifetime colored by the one she wasn't allowed 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z Assured and affecting performances from the cast succeed in tugging at heartstrings, especially Smith’s, whose frail ox ready for pasture is rueful but grounded, in a role that might easily turn maudlin. ‘… What the End Will Be’ Review: Learning to Let Go 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z We thought that maybe it should be a ballad so that you deliver this sort of rueful lyric with a melancholy music. How Broadway Got the Beat: The Go-Go’s in 5 Songs 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Barnett never sounds rueful, only grateful for the shot he once had, and maybe missed. The Playlist: Barack Obama’s Summery Playlists and Green Day’s Fiery Return 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z An underlying mood of rueful nostalgia is well established by the time Giuseppe receives a diagnosis of advanced emphysema a few pages later. Review | The dying author of ‘The Leopard’ finds new life in ‘Lampedusa’ 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z This brash, vigorous, yet rueful film is among Eastwood’s most personal, farsighted, and deeply felt achievements. Clint Eastwood’s “Sully”: A Heroic Pilot’s Existential Burden 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Instead of working the system, the only work he produced was a rueful diary called Basta – Italian for "enough". Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z But he and the fine, tartly rueful Ms. Gomez made me believe in the attachments and irritants that shape their characters’ marriage. Theater Review: Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet’ 2012-09-21T02:00:00Z A similar rueful candor informs Gregory’s recollections of tentative reconciliations with both parents toward the ends of their lives. Review | André Gregory’s ‘This Is Not My Memoir’ is a free-form monologue about his quest for meaning in life and art 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Adopting a nearly blind 70-year-old elephant from a rueful “elephant-trek” proprietor, they drive 500 miles to the sanctuary, where a new life is in store for the animal. Review: In ‘Love & Bananas,’ Uncovering the Plight of the Asian Elephant 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z One of her eyes is lively, but the other droops downwards as if injured or sad, and there is rueful twist to her smile. Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind – review 2013-02-10T00:05:45Z Atwood’s wry and rueful tales bridge the gap between your usual reading habits and your new interest in the natural world. Books New and Old for the Would-Be Time Traveler 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z “And the attitude, the slouch of the bag — they got the weight really right,” Mr. Hernandez added with a rueful laugh. On the Runway: Proenza Schouler Doesn't Care for Target's Messenger 2011-03-25T16:19:14Z Asked who was France's greatest poet, André Gide responded with the famously rueful answer: "Victor Hugo, hélas!" Les Misérables – review 2013-01-13T00:07:04Z “Having my mother’s death and my daughter’s birth coincide, it was very traumatic for everybody,” he said with a rueful, nasal laugh, the kind he tends to affix to moments of gravitas. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z Those who enjoy McMurtry’s rueful humor and understated tone of elegiac melancholy will devour the book in one setting; others will find it too slight and offhand to be genuinely commanding. Westerns by Larry McMurtry, Craig Johnson, David Fuller, Jeff Guinn Readers who’ve lived long enough, even if they’ve never heard of Naples, will nod in rueful sympathy as someone who seems on top of the world risks everything for an old flame. ‘The Story of the Lost Child,’ review: Elena Ferrante’s final — key — volume 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Molina is a lively foil as his flamboyant lawyer, and Mr. Schiff is strong, bringing a dose of rueful self-awareness to the role of put-upon prosecutor. The TV Watch: ?Scott Turow?s Innocent? on TNT 2011-11-28T18:47:35Z The TV show has a rueful subtext undercutting its otherwise peppy tone, but Lathrop doesn't quite have the same ear for bathos or the contradictory impulses that make humans so complex. Sex for sale and the cliches abound in 'Bordello' 2011-02-08T00:30:00Z He writes as a rueful woman who, as “Banishment” begins, is about to marry her second husband. Review: David Gates Delivers More Havoc in ‘A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me’ 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z If you want to know more: Do not expect a laugh riot, though there are some rueful chuckles. Louis C.K.’s ‘Horace and Pete’: Mournful and Unshakable 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Though “Boyhood” is not an explicitly political film, the speech instantly brought a political dimension to the rueful single mother Arquette spent twelve years playing. Grading the Oscar Speeches: Patricia Arquette Gets an A+ 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The family lived close to the poverty line, but Chuculate’s stories about this, while filled with sharp details about ill-fitting shoes and off-brand products, are gentle in spirit, marked by rueful humor. Despite poverty and a few missteps, ‘This Indian Kid’ turned out pretty well 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z It's a fantasy to think that all of these anti-abortion Republicans will wake one day, rueful that they sold out their "family values" to back a guy who wouldn't even ban abortion for them. Trump hasn't "moderated" on abortion — he'll ban it first chance he gets 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z So “watching the sun bake” has become a statement with multiple layers, and some of them are more rueful than relaxing. Americans have long wanted the perfect endless summer. Jimmy Buffett offered them one 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z "I stand before you with a heart full of regret," Pezzola said in an emotional speech before the judge, in which he apologized to Ode and directed rueful comments to his wife and two daughters. U.S. judge sentences another Proud Boys member for Jan. 6 attack at Capitol 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Then I’ll have to say, ‘Well, I don’t have any data because a hacker somewhere took down the computer,’” he says with a rueful laugh. Cyberattack shutters major NSF-funded telescopes for more than 2 weeks 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z But it's a sumptuously alluring record, full of doomed romance and rueful goodbyes. Mercury Prize 2023: Arctic Monkeys, Jessie Ware and Fred Again lead shortlist 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Her stoicism captures the reverence that Britons have for their cradle-to-grave health system, but also their rueful sense that it is broken. A National Treasure, Tarnished: Can Britain Fix Its Health Service? 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z When I asked if he could see it changing in that time, he gave a kind of rueful laugh. Mount Rainier is melting. Can anything be done to stop it? 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Barrymore gave rueful nods as Mathews taped her to her seat. Before Michelle Obama segment, Drew Barrymore is taped to her chair. (They still hold hands) 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Oscar Levant, one of the great interpreters of George Gershwin’s music, was as renowned for his rueful wit as he was for his virtuosic piano skills. Unhappiness made Oscar Levant a laugh riot. Sean Hayes carves a portrayal in a marble of suffering 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z When he took over in 1999, Stewart threaded the needle between comedy and political passion with a heady and highly particular combination of rueful incredulity, ease and, occasionally, tremendously effective outrage. Review | Can guest hosts save ‘The Daily Show’? 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Still, Lue uttered a rueful laugh when asked to forecast their pairing. Clippers hold off late rally and earn victory over Nets to finish trip 4-2 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z In a more rueful vein: “I love my Mother Country, and I love my family, and I always will. I just wish, at the second-darkest moment of my life, they’d both been there for me.” Review | The verdict on Prince Harry’s book: Juicy, humorous, resentful and sad 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z "To be honest with you, there is always hope that things will improve, but it seems like it won't get better," she added with a rueful smile. Ukraine weighs heavy on minds in Moscow as New Year holiday nears 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z “Hold on to your wallets,” calls out a customer to rueful chuckles. South Africa marks holidays despite nationwide power cuts 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z And as Kay searches for her missing brother, there are lively characters and moments of rueful comedy that balance out the sense of melancholy. God of War, Wordle lead a bumpy year in video games 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Despite the palpable pain, it’s hard to look at those bright shades of red, yellow and purple and not see some semblance of hope, a bit of rueful optimism. Perspective | So many rainbows 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Deeply conflicted over his own mixed-blood heritage, Virgil is a classic tarnished knight, and narrator Darrell Dennis gives a rueful, sardonic read that captures his tough and tender sides. 9 must-listen audiobooks for Native American Heritage Month 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z The politics of abortion played a key role in that outcome, according to advocates, Democratic strategists and some rueful Republicans. Tapping into ‘a simmering rage’: Democrats’ emphasis on abortion stopped GOP gains 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “It’s really hard for me to not try to score a touchdown,’’ DeBoer said with a rueful smile. UW gutted out ‘a beautiful win’ against the Beavers. With Oregon looming, is more glory ahead? 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z Well, now I have,” she said, with a rueful smile. A Kharkiv bomb shelter: the only home baby Zhenia has known 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Saunders often begins in media res, disorienting us with strange language that resolves, eventually, into a rueful clarity. George Saunders' saintly, disappointing new stories: A tender-hearted takedown 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The impact of that decision is still felt today, but Griffin brushes off notions of grandeur as she laughs a warm but rueful chuckle and simply recalls: "I must have put my hand up." The women who fought for their own World Cup 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z “But I’m not alone now,” she added with a rueful laugh while gesturing to the displaced families around her. Florida faced a housing crisis. Ian has made it worse. 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z “These are supposed to last roughly three years,” he said, a rueful smile on his face. Afghanistan's money is crumbling to pieces, just like its economy 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z “We are getting deprogrammed right now,” he said with a rueful chuckle. A dystopian novel with a timely premise: Americans have fled the U.S. en masse 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Recently, my colleague Sam Sifton and I were discussing the matter of summer’s passing, and when I began to get rueful, he stopped me. Summer’s Down Elevator 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z When pressed that part of why he’s gained such a following is precisely because he’s supposed to know more than anyone else, Armstrong grew momentarily rueful. The crypto boom runs on hype men like ‘BitBoy,’ an untrained Atlanta YouTuber 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z With aching delicacy and deftly hidden surprises, Hong strikes familiar chords of rueful melancholy but also finds a wellspring of life-affirming beauty best summed up by the movie’s title. The best movies of 2022 (so far). And where to find them 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z There is a ritual outpouring of sorrow and rage, a senator's impotent anguish goes viral, and that rueful Onion headline gets updated as another community wails. Minority rules, children die: Our broken political system has lethal consequences 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z In other words, she said with a rueful laugh, “no good deed goes unpunished.” Here's why scientists aren't 'crazy scared' about monkeypox 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z The filing has elicited rueful admiration from supporters of race-conscious admissions programs in higher education. A Conservative Lawyer’s New Target After Abortion: Affirmative Action 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z It was a trip they now look back on with rueful affection. Russian-Speaking Technologists Rebuild Their Lives in a San Francisco Home 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z In the rueful words of historian David B. Williams, modern developers seem to be “merely rebuilding the hill one banal building at a time.” A surviving signpost to Belltown’s origins soon will fall 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z In a deposition over a botched effort to take Tesla private that same year, he was rueful, saying, “If I had a hindsight machine, that would be really great.” ‘I Don’t Really Have a Business Plan’: How Elon Musk Wings It 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z That’s the story told, at least by the film’s poster, which features a diptych of star Mark Wahlberg, looking rough and rueful in a mug shot, and then beatific in Catholic clergy apparel. ‘Father Stu’ review: In this Mark Wahlberg movie, the message is its salvation 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z That’s the story told by the film’s poster, which features a diptych of star Mark Wahlberg, looking rough and rueful in a mug shot and then beatific in Catholic clergy apparel. Review: Platitudes block the path to salvation for Mark Wahlberg's 'Father Stu' 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Knowing laughter rippled through the audience as Smith cracked a rueful smile. Column: Will Smith's Oscars slap of Chris Rock settles it. We're done with Black hair jokes 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Rylance, in the way that great actors can, manages to get an entire world of untold stories into the three rueful words of his quiet reply: “The other war.” ‘The Outfit’ review: Mark Rylance is perfectly suited for this effective gangster drama 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The ball ricocheted away instead, earning Smith a rueful grin from Bears coach Nicki Collen and some good-natured ribbing from her teammates. No. 4 Baylor women rout Oklahoma State in Big 12 tourney 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Sounding a little rueful, Chief Justice Roberts said, “I can’t remember my grammar teacher’s name.” Supreme Court Hears Case of Doctors Accused of Running Pill Mills 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z “I got shut out early,” he says, still sounding rueful. The Waco Biker Shootout Left Nine Dead. Why Was No One Convicted? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The owners are always so perplexed, so baffled, so thinly rueful that there are so few minority coaches in a league in which 70 percent of the labor is Black. Perspective | NFL owners are committed to diversity — until it’s their turn to make a hire 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z “They’re the only ones really talking about films,” he said with a rueful laugh. No Globes. Omicron. Dismal box office. Awards pros on the Oscar season from hell 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “I want to apologize,” a rueful Mr. Johnson said during an extraordinarily tense session of Prime Minister’s Questions. Boris Johnson, Under Fire, Apologizes for Pandemic Party 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z They can just make rueful jokes about the current state of our society and poke fun at the worst of us. Opinion | What ‘Don’t Look Up’ gets wrong about climate change 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z They seem to expect a rueful admission that fascism was not supposed to "happen here," and an expression of regret that the democratic bargain has been broken and betrayed. Stop calling the GOP fascists "hypocrites": No one cares, and they have no shame 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Here, a ballad of longing and fragile possibility takes on a deeper dimension, one of hope but also of rueful what-might-have-been. Review | ‘West Side Story’ is an urgent, utterly beautiful revival 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z Nepomniachtchi in particular appeared rueful and resigned as he faced reporters’ questions about the disaster that was Game 8 and how he expected to turn things around. Magnus Carlsen takes control of chess title match after challenger’s blunder 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z I’d developed a rueful affection for PoMo’s theatrical vision of urban life, scattered in far-flung semipublic environments or among glass corporate facades — a vision I hadn’t experienced as a child. Discovering a Secret Wonderland of Architecture in Dallas 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z "I think I'm over it," he says, with a rueful smile. Norris on a defining year in F1 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z She came around and remained rueful about her legacy. Gladys Stern, who led Georgetown Day School, dies at 104 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z A shy person, he appeared uncomfortable in the spotlight of publicity, once recalling his manager’s rueful remark that they had managed to build Mr. Freire’s career despite his best efforts to hinder it. Nelson Freire, acclaimed Brazilian pianist, dies at 77 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z He related these facts with a rueful sense that something was terribly broken about Ukraine. The Crypto Capital of the World 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, we live out a rueful Japanese proverb. Opinion | We can fix Facebook, but it’s going to cost us 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Ellis concludes with an almost rueful recognition that the states had a distance to go before nationhood felt even a little secure. Review | The true character of the American Revolution? It’s complicated. 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z “I am on record as being a socialist. I love unions,” Dones said with a rueful laugh. King County head of homelessness may be an ‘impossible’ job, but Marc Dones is optimistic 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s a conviction that allows us to ennoble ourselves with pathos, with rueful maturity, with wisdom won too late. A Cautionary Tale for the New Roaring Twenties 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z “Those early stories aren’t like anything else I’ve read; they are funny and rueful and honest, like a secret version of the mother I knew, but maybe didn’t entirely know.” Author Hilma Wolitzer lost her husband to COVID-19. So at 91, she wrote a story about it 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Or is Garcetti’s exit just a strategic career move, not a rueful comment on the difficulty of leading this wayward city? Op-Ed: After Garcetti, who leads Los Angeles? 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z “Angry, rueful, and defiant, the impressive roster of award-winning writers and academics portrays a nation wracked by pain,” wrote a reviewer in a starred Kirkus Review. Prose that spans the globe, a prescient novel about a plague and more: 6 new paperbacks 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z He sounded rueful about where the relationship had led him. He Said He Loved Her. Then He Went to the F.B.I. 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z But without that world, we now added a rueful punchline: “Too bad there’s no more ‘social’!” Opinion | How Do I Define My Gender if No One Is Watching Me? 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z “I cooked dinner for my family,” she recalls with an only slightly rueful smile. In life and fiction, a late-blooming novelist makes peace, happily, with L.A. 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z It's all a rueful reminder of the blessing carved into the mantel of the White House State Dining Room: Who truly was the most dishonest president? 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Thomas utilizes the genre to tell this story that uses Jewish lore and demonology to talk about memory, catharsis and trauma; Davis’ incredible performance brings a deeply sad and rueful element to the film. Review: Horror movie 'The Vigil' effectively explores grief and trauma through a Jewish lens 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Osaka took the first set when a rueful Brady netted a forehand. Elliott: Naomi Osaka adds to her growing legend with Australian Open triumph 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Yet it remained difficult to get smell taken seriously; when someone asked how that fact was being communicated to governments, there was a lot of rueful laughter. What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z “Hope I don’t become a statistic,” he said, with a rueful laugh. With 5 inches of rain expected in Santa Cruz mountain burn areas, officials fear mudslides 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z It even echoes a rueful line of dialogue by the film’s protagonist, but you have to be listening closely while watching the film to catch it in the song. Here are 10 Oscar-contending song tracks. Why not make them your playlist? 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z An extra $1.50 an hour “is not going to break our back,” he says with a rueful laugh. Minimum wage hike Jan. 1 a welcome prospect for workers, but employers are divided 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z It made her angry because she knew it wasn’t about her writing; they wanted a “rueful tale” about someone defying the odds and getting into an Ivy League school. How a DACA recipient came to tell the stories of "The Undocumented Americans" 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The E.U.’s former chief competition economist, who was involved in the Google cases, summed up the lackluster result with a rueful joke on Twitter last month. Europe fined Google nearly $10 billion for antitrust violations, but little has changed 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The laughter that greets political satire in 2020 is more rueful than revelatory. Column: Why I'm not laughing at the new 'Borat' movie 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Straka viewed the backlash as a rueful example that proves his point about the behavior of the mob on the left. #WalkAway founder Brandon Straka: ‘Once upon a time, I was a liberal’ 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z “Yes it was traumatic, but was it harder than some of the other things I’ve gone through? Maybe yeah, actually,” she says with a rueful laugh. Mariah Carey: ‘They’re calling me a diva? I think I’m going to cry!’ 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z While he’s made loads of memories, and seen more than 500 Crimson Tide victories, Ray remembers every single loss vividly, another rueful trait he shares with the Bear. Ticket limits jeopardize fan’s 605-game attendance streak 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z Biden spoke in a rueful voice for a humble 24 minutes. Opinion | ‘We’re Here and They’re Not’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z “So I had to send them documents so they could continue to ignore my appeal,” says Boues, with a rueful laugh. Unemployment claims keep falling in Washington state, but many are still waiting for benefits 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z But there was also a rueful look in the rearview mirror. Obama delivers searing attack on Trump and warns of grave threat to democracy 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z With a soft, rueful laugh, he said I wouldn’t find many economists sincerely taking part in the kind of workshops I was writing about. ‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work? 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z But the rueful main lesson so far is: It just loves America. There’s something about America: The coronavirus loves us the best 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z “I see my mother’s saddened eyes. I also see my father’s eyes, sometimes tender, sometimes cruel and sometimes rueful. Then I see myself, moving, moving . . .” Battered by upheaval, novelist Yu Lihua told raw stories from a speckled blue desk 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z Her experiences growing up in this Bible Belt oil town are a mix of bafflement, biting mockery and rueful humor — often featuring her father, a larger-than-life personality notable for his strong opinions and gleeful penny-pinching. Review | An insightful ode to oddballs 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z But much of “Driveways” lingers in a less emphatic register of feeling, in that rueful gray zone between humor and sorrow. Review: The moving drama 'Driveways' features a superb Brian Dennehy in one of his last roles 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z He was never the same after he and Anna split, and “Pierrot” is their rueful parting. Quarantined film critic David Thomson loves 'Ozark,' sours on 'Paris, Texas' 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z His 2006 debut feature, “12:08 East of Bucharest,” was a rueful comedy about the meaning of revolution, as a word and a concept. Review: The sharp heist-thriller pleasures of ‘The Whistlers’ translate into any language 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Her work manages to express a certain wistfulness, with a rueful woolly smile occasionally emerging from the ratty swirls of colored fabric cords and sheep fleece she uses to construct her animalistic, slightly unsettling pieces. The Artists Keeping Up the Tradition of Mask-Making 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Rahm looked immediately rueful about leaving a subsequent birdie putt short but his 61, a course record, represented obvious cause for celebration. Justin Thomas leads clutch of top names into final round in Mexico 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The drama scrambles its storytelling not to yield rueful laughs but to approximate the experience of a medical condition in objective theatrical form. Review: Alfred Molina, like Lear with dementia, thunders in 'The Father' at Pasadena Playhouse 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z It was not defensiveness I detected, not superiority, but a kind of rueful, collegial recognition of the strategies of the female writer — and quiet pride. How to Write Fiction When the Planet Is Falling Apart 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z In another, preparations were underway for a rueful party Thursday evening at Place Luxembourg, the plaza outside the European Parliament that is lined with bars. Adieu, E.U.: British reps pack their bags as European Parliament approves Brexit 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Looking back on ExhibitBE after five years, he was a bit rueful. ExhibitBE: Fearless graffiti masterpiece 5 years later 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z “I was a teenager and I hated it,” says Caycedo with a rueful smile. Ghosts in the water: Carolina Caycedo's river portraits and video apparitions tell difficult stories 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Though Chaplin was retrospectively rueful, it was not a crazy notion—and he would use it to fantastic comic effect in “The Great Dictator,” still the best satiric study of dictator style ever created. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Whereas he used to rap mostly in the present tense, much of his new album switches to the past, offering a more rueful perspective on the hedonistic pursuits of his teen-age years and early twenties. Wiki Goes from Young Rap Star to Grizzled Veteran 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The prince’s rueful snigger alone, before “let the side down”, must have triggered a surge of collective nausea that the Queen, notwithstanding the new extra-empathetic generation of dependants, will struggle to subdue. What is the excuse for this misogynistic nonsense served up in a gilded chamber? | Catherine Bennett 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z So it might be said in the rueful lyrics of one song that “the days dwindle down to a precious few.” National Zoo solicits mix tape suggestions for Bei Bei’s long flight to China 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z No twitch of an eye or a cheek, no ghost of a tender or rueful smile. The Final Frontier 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z “I didn’t react well,” he confessed, rueful, “to being confined in a classroom.” “The Bunty Club” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z We took rueful chugs from our water bottles, and headed back down. With a new Northwest-set book, David Guterson meditates on uncertainty, time, primal fears 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z “You use your arms,’’ Brown said with a rueful laugh when asked about playing with the injury a week. Duane Brown listed as questionable but says he’ll play against Rams Thursday 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “And it was pretty much downhill from there,” she said with a rueful laugh. For One L.P.G.A. Golfer, a Million-Dollar Prize Is Worth the Pain 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z “The Laundromat” is divided into segments, each prefaced with a rueful motto. Villains Hog the Spotlight in “The Laundromat” 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Lampard turned back to his bench with a rueful look and he was feeling even worse when Liverpool doubled their lead with a simple set-piece moments later. Roberto Firmino rises above Chelsea to keep up Liverpool’s perfect start 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z The pair talked with rueful admiration about recent advances in black cinema. Constance Wu’s Hollywood Destiny 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “It depends on what Boris Johnson really wants,” a rueful diplomat concluded. G7 leaders wait nervously for Boris Johnson’s debut on the world stage 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z “His American Express card was pretty beat up,” Williams said with a rueful laugh. ‘He was kind of Seattle’s coach’: Ex-Sonics analyst Jim Marsh gave his heart to basketball community 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z He said at one point that the foot was “intransigent”, and there was something terribly resigned and rueful in his tone. Dying the Christian Science way: the horror of my father’s last days 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s the eternal struggle, isn’t it: between the kid in us and the grown-up, the desperate fan and the rueful spectator. New Zealand v England: Cricket World Cup final 2019 – live! 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Near the episode’s midway point, after he’s delivered the eulogy at her memorial service, Candy appears to the rueful Pray Tell — who’s recently given her a very public dressing down — to offer forgiveness. ‘This can’t happen on “Pose”’: How TV’s queerest show made its most emotional episode yet 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z "It sounds like nothing," she says with a rueful smile. At a school near you? The four-and-a-half-day week 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z Over the next two months, about 10 blurry seconds at a time, Boling became, in the rueful phrasing of his coach, “a story.” Matthew Boling went viral for his track success. His life has changed 10 seconds at a time. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z “All Is True” is a rueful movie but finally a joyous one, as sundry loose ends are put right with a Shakespearean combination of tidiness and wishful thinking. Review | William Shakespeare, ordinary human, is the flawed hero of ‘All Is True’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z “I might’ve said I was from the Berkshires,” she said with a rueful smile during a recent interview at her home. Artist talks life and work, from portraits to magazines 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Now, by way of rueful compensation, we have “The White Crow,” a film about Nureyev—or, at least, about his first twenty-three years. “The White Crow” and the Difficulty with Dance Movies 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z It’s an image many invoke when discussing the Lebanese joie de vivre, that heady mix of rueful stoicism and show-must-go-on partying often advertised as the nation’s antidote to successive calamities. Lebanese officials warn of unprecedented austerity measures as economic woes mount 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z “We couldn’t repeal and replace it with a Republican House,” Alexander noted with a rueful laugh. Obamacare didn’t implode, so now Trump is trying to blow it up 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z Burns has written a wise, sometimes rueful account of why things often don’t work out the way statesmen plan. Review | A cautious diplomat who couldn’t stop U.S. mistakes 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “It didn’t help much today,” Mickelson said with a rueful laugh. Can Phil Mickelson Chew His Way Back to the Top? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z It’s a short, perfect novel of repression, regret and rueful hope; every sentence is a gem. If you liked Michael Ondaatje’s ‘Warlight,’ here are 5 more books you might like 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z He gave me a rueful smile, then said: “Not alive, let’s say.” Perspective | A new video game invites players to wallow in a dystopian Washington 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z “Why don’t we do like Trump?” he said, giving a rueful smile. After 15 bloody years, Baghdad is back, but badly wounded 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z “Why don't we do like Trump?” he said, giving a rueful smile. Baghdad is reemerging from 15 blood-soaked years, but the city now barely functions 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr Nelumoni is rueful when I ask if those who witnessed the end of apartheid were wrong to believe in a "rainbow nation" - the multiracial patchwork of peaceful co-operating groups. How race relations in the 'rainbow nation' have become toxic 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z “Except for the breast-cancer part,” she said with a rueful laugh. Julia Louis-Dreyfus Acts Out 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z There was a rueful, semi-apologetic tone to the whole thing, as well there might be in the circumstances under which Ryan leaves the capital. No tears for Paul Ryan: On the short, unhappy tenure of the worst House speaker ever 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z They play their instruments, live, with flair; their harmonies are pretty and their lyrics are sardonic, witty, self-deprecating and rueful. Review: Middle-age regret gets a rock 'n' roll workout in Stefan Marks' new play 'Middle8' 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Sitting in a conference room outside his office in Prague, Mr. Babis was by turns angry, rueful and deeply emotional. Scandal Around Billionaire Prime Minister Leaves Czechs in Limbo 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z The book’s title essay offers a warm, rueful portrait of Franzen’s uncle, who left him an inheritance that allowed Franzen to travel to Antarctica. Jonathan Franzen’s creature feature: In a new essay collection, the novelist dissects his love of birds 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z At the pulpit, Patrick gave the pastor a rueful smile about the mixup and said, “God is good. God is funny, too.” Deval Patrick’s Presidential Prospects 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z However, in 2015, after three schoolgirls wrote to him in prison as part of a history project, seeking his views on “leadership” and “legacy,” the octogenarian ex-gangster, a ninth-grade dropout, responded with a rueful letter. Whitey Bulger, Boston crime boss and elusive fugitive, dead in prison at 89 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Aside from the fun I’ll miss in riding retirement, I find the prospect rueful for a second reason. Opinion | I’ve met people of all stripes. I have my motorcycle to thank. 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The road of excess, for suburban Nick, leads to some rueful, mud-caked wisdom. Think festivals are all about hedonism? No, they’re evolving | Pat Kane 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z It’s a great book with a great heart — and a whole heap of rueful regret — at the core of it. ‘A Terrible Country’ is a great novel that sheds light on life in Moscow 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z “Utopia” means “no place” in Greek, and so a sly element of rueful self-acknowledgment resides within the idea, with the auto-negation of a Magritte drawing. What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z “I realize right now I just have a lot of frustration with him because I don’t want to talk about him,” he says with a rueful laugh about his close friend. Bobcat Goldthwait stays true to his roots with TruTV's new anthology series 'Misfits & Monsters' Lyrically, it’s a delight: reflective, wry and rueful. Review: Florence + the Machine looks back with regret, hope 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Terrible revelations were batted back and forth in a spirit of rueful one-upmanship. “The First World” 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z But he kept abreast of goings-on in Seattle, still rueful that his work to desegregate the city’s schools remains, to this day, unfinished. David Moberly, who led Seattle schools through desegregation, dies at 89 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Then there’s fighting, crying, and then you’re like, ‘OK, you do love me,’” he says, with a rueful smile. Marc Maron: ‘I’m familiar with coke, anger, bullying, selfishness’ 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z On a more rueful note, “Augie looks at me like a lost puppy, in a foreign place with no partner anymore, nothing to call his own except his smartphone.” Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Concussive Collaboration 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z “I’m a bit of a disaster to convince the club to buy players,” Conte said through a rueful smile in February. Antonio Conte: Chelsea’s born winner who lost his mojo | Dominic Fifield 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z In this rueful tribute to the state where Wright has lived most of his life, he braids together several narrative strands. Lit Life: A state, a slave, a spy — three remarkable new works of nonfiction 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Many Democrats see rueful irony in this moment. Crossfire Hurricane: How the FBI handled the Clinton emails and the Russia-Trump probes 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In my own imagination, "Tully" concludes on a less calculated note, which I mean less as criticism than as rueful acknowledgment of the movie's central insight. Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis breathe the miracle of life into the dark motherhood story of 'Tully' 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “So many hurricanes I can remember,” he said with a rueful chuckle. Last of the Newsies? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z I debated internally whether to volunteer any of this information, and managed a small, rueful smile. Opinion | Further excerpts from James Comey’s book, if the existing ones are anything to go on 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The message from Washington during those years was, in some officials’ rueful characterization, “Don’t lose.” In Afghanistan, U.S. military sprints to prove it can reverse insurgent tide 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Woods is more engaging with the media, which draws rueful smiles from an older generation who well remember his terse and at times needlessly guarded approach. How US golf fans finally fell in love with Tiger Woods | Ewan Murray 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z There is a rueful saying in the west of Ireland that “you can’t eat scenery,” but it’s only half true: During the summer, tourism is the lifeblood of the beautiful Atlantic seaboard. Success of Irish Trail Shows That Maybe You Can Eat the Scenery 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z Then a rueful note crept into her voice. A rossum’s best friend 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z And his reflections on love in its many forms have a rueful, bracing honesty. For Valentine’s Day, here are four books with different takes on love 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z “The eggs was more like a misunderstanding than something that we needed, so it was an extra zero on the order, so 1,500 to 15,000,” he said with a rueful laugh. How do you like your eggs, Norway? By the thousand.. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z “It was like the finger of fate pointed at me,” she explains to me in the museum’s cafe, with well-scrubbed hands and a slightly rueful smile. London’s fatberg on show: ‘We thought of pickling it’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z He looks a little unwell, a little sad, and a little rueful, as if he’s unsure about being the centre of attention. How a new technology is changing the lives of people who cannot speak 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z When pressed as to why he did not open up regarding such problems at the time, Woods raised a rueful smile. Just give me time to see what this body can and can’t do, says Tiger Woods 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z He was immediately disarming, looking at me with rueful happiness and saying, “I’m so glad to see you! I nearly called you at the Royalton but then I wondered what sort of reaction I’d get.” An excerpt from 'The Vanity Fair Diaries' 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “The eggs was more like a misunderstanding than something that we needed, so it was an extra zero on the order, so 1,500 to 15,000,” he said with a rueful laugh. How do you like your eggs, Norway? By the thousand.. 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z He’s not entirely blind, however, noting along the way with a rueful grin, “I do tend to leap before I look.” ‘American Made’ review: Tom Cruise steers this devilish ride 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z “At some point in the day’s proceedings, Michelle and I shared a rueful look. It said, ‘Can you believe this?’” Hillary Clinton's new memoir compares Trump's 'war on truth' to Orwell's 1984 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Ask any legal expert what they make of it, and what you get is rueful bemusement. Perspective | Only Roger Goodell could turn Ezekiel Elliott into a sympathetic figure 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z "She was off and running" — that’s one daughter's rueful comment about one of her mother's departures. Dolores Huerta has been jailed, beaten, mocked by Glenn Beck. A new doc shows why she won't shut up 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z "Fighting for the American dream," she adds, with a rueful laugh. Harvey: Too poor to flee the hurricane - BBC News 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z It served as rueful comment on how the two titular Hollywood legends — Bette Davis and Joan Crawford — shoulda-coulda-would have been simpatico if not for the studios, gossips and, yes, their own insecurities and egos. Emmy predictions: Voters' toughest choice this year comes down to 'Feud' versus 'Big Little Lies' 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z No. It flew high and Wenger creased into a rueful smile. Beaten Arsenal lift Emirates Cup despite Sevilla finishing with 100% record 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z “Landline” offers viewers a rueful glimpse of a vanished time and place. Review | ‘Landline’: 1990s-set dysfunctional-family comedy pays homage to a bygone New York 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Jorah is writing Daenerys a rueful love letter, and it’s unclear who is going to agree to mail his toxic germs to the new self-proclaimed Queen of the Seven Kingdoms. The Game of Game of Thrones: season 7, episode 2, Stormborn 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Over the past year, the opinion pages of prestigious newspapers have been filled with belated, rueful comments from the high priests of globalisation – the men who appeared to have defeated the anti-globalisers two decades earlier. Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Douglass begins by delivering an extended tribute to the courage and spirit of the American Revolution, one tinged at many moments with rueful irony. Dear white people: Frederick Douglass explains the Trump resistance in “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z “I’ll need a new car,” Anne says, with a rueful laugh. I lost my dream job in a rural town – but telling me to move doesn't help 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The narrator’s tone turns rueful, tender; a piece of gossip has become literature. The Art and Activism of Grace Paley 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z William McPherson, 84, a novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for The Washington Post who won late-life acclaim for a rueful essay describing his descent into poverty, died Tuesday in Washington, D.C. The week’s passages 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Woods is rueful at the alterations made to Augusta, the byproduct of how far golfers now hit the ball. Tiger Woods opens up on racial slurs that drove his desire for dominance | Ewan Murray 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z It’s why Tom Brady’s humorous principle battle cry of “when I suck, I’ll retire” carries a rueful wisdom. If Tiger Woods called it quits ... - Golf Digest 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z "There was no Chateau Lafite in the Owen household," he says with a rueful smile. SDP's 'Gang of Four' reunited on stage - BBC News 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Our conversation keeps returning to her, in tones both humorous and rueful: “Family is a pattern; I’ve looked at it all my life, and I can’t change it.” Yiyun Li: ‘I used to say that I was not an autobiographical writer – that was a lie’ 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z He gave the rueful laugh that tended to accompany discussions of the police in the West End. The Preacher and the Sheriff 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z A rueful reflection on proximity to a powerful, expansionist neighbour attributed to the wily dictator Porfirio Diaz. 'So far from God, so close to the US': Mexico's troubled past with its neighbour 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z “I’m glad I didn’t get a Steinway,” he said with a rueful laugh. A Theater Actor Finds a Place for All His Props 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Kanter, considered one of the NBA’s best bench players, gave a rueful look as he left the arena with his wrist bandaged. Oklahoma City Thunder's Enes Kanter punches chair – and breaks his arm 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z “My plan A was to leave in a boat,” he said with a rueful smile. Cubans Planning to Leave for U.S. Face a Bleak New Reality 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The rueful smile on the Liverpool manager’s face as he shook Adams’s hand at full-time said it all. Plymouth hold out against Klopp’s young Liverpool to earn FA Cup replay 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z It is also difficult to know whether that “contrary” denotes a character trait – unconventional, humorously rueful, outsiderish – or a more familiarly gendered diffidence born of a low expectation of recognition and reward. 2016 – a year of celebrating women writers 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z But it’s not just Britain that clings on – sometimes in rueful bemusement, but at other times defiantly – to a scattering of islands and other bits of territory it acquired long ago around the globe. The world’s powers have to resolve their remnants of empire | Martin Kettle 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z But there are some gems in it, along with some rueful reflection. Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Christmas Days’: spirits of the season 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Then he added a rueful note, "I'm just not good at this." As he shoots for awards attention, Canadian director Xavier Dolan is still taking no prisoners 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z His tone was one of embattlement and occasional grievance, and his remarks were punctuated by wry and rueful humor. Supreme Court Agenda in the Trump Era? A Justice Seems to Supply One 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The face of the young man slips away, replaced by that of a rueful 78-year-old. How the son of an African goat herder became a Nobel Prize contender 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Vladimir Putin is definitely not rueful or bemused about these possessions. The world’s powers have to resolve their remnants of empire | Martin Kettle 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z “I don’t think I’m going to be around next year,” she replied with smile and a rueful laugh. Column: Will Cubs fans cry, ‘If we lose, it’s rigged’? 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z They drizzle it with the laughter of women in commercials holding salads and the rueful smiles of women in commercials peddling digestive yogurts. Nasty women have much work to do 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Club, Mike D’Angelo added, “At its best, though, this paean to youth’s unfulfilled dreams, as seen from the cusp of middle age, achieves a rueful poignancy.” Indie Focus: Problems big and small in 'Certain Women,' 'Blue Jay,' 'Aquarius' and 'Desierto' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Behind that rueful smile is a long story. Column: Kid does it all, even with one eye on back home 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “We are used to these prices,” they say, rueful and resigned. Emma Thompson: What You Learn From a Week in the Arctic 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z More frequently than ever, when the president’s aides brief him before appearances about the questions he might face from reporters, they are met with raised eyebrows and rueful shakes of the head. Obama Asks for Reality Check as ‘Frivolous’ Issues Dominate Election 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z He has sold three, but there are still too many, Lucille said with a rueful shake, since this obviously is a long-standing discussion between husband and wife. Lidgerwood farmer restores antique tractors, combines 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Luckily, so expert is Firth’s timing—like that of Emma Thompson, as Bridget’s obstetrician—that laughs, often of the rueful variety, can be conjured in the stalest scenes. Ron Howard’s Crowdsourced Beatles History 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z As these two news stories unfolded through social media that week, I allowed myself a rueful smile. Privilege, policing and living while black in Chicago's white north side 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Spiky, sweet and imperfect in the way emotionally resonant art usually is, “One Mississippi” moves along the now-familiar track of rueful self-observation/narration — but do not be deceived. Review: Tig Notaro channels her own tragedies in addictive Amazon series ‘One Mississippi’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Somber looks throughout, with a tanned Clooney occasionally breaking into a rueful smile as panelists described the lavish lifestyles and alleged corruption of South Sudanese leaders. Cause Celeb: George Clooney, Don Cheadle present report on war crimes in South Sudan 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Spiky, sweet and imperfect in the way emotionally resonant art usually is, “One Mississippi” moves along the now-familiar track of rueful self-observation/narration — but do not be deceived. Tig Notaro’s new Amazon series ‘One Mississippi’ powers through the pain with humor, wisdom 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z On room-service menus, “if you don’t have Caesar salad, add chicken or shrimp, people just lose it. It’s bizarre,” he said with a rueful laugh. High-Profile Chefs Make Hotels Their Meal Tickets 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z There’s deep grief in “Hell or High Water,” as well as grudging, rueful wit and sinewy home truths about ethnicity in a pre-post-racial America. Chris Pine and Ben Foster star in the superb crime thriller ‘Hell or High Water’ 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z “We gathered in one corner near Tahrir,” Mona recalled with a rueful laugh, “and chanted, ‘Not Morsi, and not the army.’ Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z For all her rueful talk, though, her on-stage persona remains unbowed. As 'Miss Sharon Jones!' hits theaters, the soul singer and cancer survivor tours on 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Joy Williams’ sly and wonderful collection of short fiction, “Ninety-Nine Stories of God,” looks at God from many angles, portraying the deity as rueful, hesitant and grounded in the everyday. ‘Ninety-Nine Stories of God’: one deity, 99 shards of truth 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Rob flies back, the two decide to marry, for convenience but also because they each possess an equal ability to seesaw between quick judgmental anger and rueful big-hearted acceptance. On TV, rage has become the new romance 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z And he gives a rueful smile – you would have expected him to score. Argentina v Venezuela: Copa América – live! 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z The rueful voice—a younger one than before—came from somewhere to my left. Stonewall After Orlando 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z “That brings me up to 72,354 over the years,” she said with a sense of rueful satisfaction. How One Berliner Battles Hate: With Conscience and a Sharp Scraper 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z “It took 12 years,” said a rueful Ms. Refice, the ministry official. Italians Agree Fresco Is a Masterpiece, but All Else Is Up for Debate 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z In a rueful column, he pointed out that betting companies placed the chances of Leicester City winning the league as equal to the chances of U2 front man Bono becoming pope. English soccer team, 5,000-1 longshots, close in on title 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z And he gives a rueful smile – you would have expected him to score. Argentina v Venezuela: Copa América – live! 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z When I asked Barney Frank about how history will judge the recovery, he was simultaneously rueful and amused. President Obama Weighs His Economic Legacy 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z It went on like that for eight pages, more rueful than mean, very well written, and signed with what was almost certainly a pseudonym: Marguerite Bonnefille. ‘That thing gnawing away at all of us’: Calais and the shantytown on its doorstep | Emmanuel Carrère 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee took the editorial cartooning prize, with judges praising his “wry, rueful perspectives” and “sophisticated style.” AP wins Pulitzer for stories on enslaved fishermen in Asia 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Jack Ohman of The Sacramento Bee took the editorial cartooning prize, with judges praising his "wry, rueful perspectives" and "sophisticated style." The Associated Press has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for documenting the use of slave labor in Southeast Asia to supply seafood to American tables 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z At a recent MIT workshop on comment systems, Lampe wore a rueful grin as speakers speculated on ideas that he had tested 10 years earlier. A toxic web: what the Victorians can teach us about online abuse 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z He offered a rueful smile as the boos rang out whenever he trotted the touchline, and upon his introduction. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Should the present state of hostilities ever end, we can no doubt expect Guantánamo to become yet another source of “lessons learned” for future generations of rueful Americans. We are torturers and murderers: America’s first casualty of war is the Constitution 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z “Weekender,” a jail song on the album, is a good girl’s rueful acknowledgment that the women in lockup are tougher and less fortunate than she is. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z “Be careful what you wish for,” says Frampton now with a rueful smile. Peter Frampton on that crazy summer 40 years ago 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z There's plenty of off-color banter that takes advantage of Fey's comic timing and ease with that particular combination of flailing frustration and rueful acceptance that marks so many of her characters. In Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, romcoms and Afghanistan are a tough combo to pull off 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Yet Bush struck an almost rueful chord as he wrapped up his remarks in Rock Hill. Is This Jeb Bush's Last Stand? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z “Yeah, well,” he says with a rueful laugh. Phil Collins returns: ‘I got letters from nurses saying, “That’s it, I’m not buying your records”’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z “Unfortunately, it’s kind of a Cuban trait,” laments a rueful doctor. The Havana primaries 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Businesspeople add to the rueful introspection; at the first whiff of scandal, foreign companies feel obliged to publicly say sorry—even if they later regret it. Self-Criticism Makes a Comeback in Xi’s China 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The country's harshly beautiful landscape mirrors the hard life and fierce passions of Pirandello's people, yet "Kaos" is a warm and embracing experience, both amusing and rueful, its camera movement as graceful as baroque scrollwork. Tavianis' 'Padre Padrone,' 'Night of the Shooting Stars,' 'Kaos' are poetic 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z His pride in Kamasi was obvious, but I thought I also detected a rueful note: Rickey supported his family as a music teacher and never earned more than a local reputation. Kamasi Washington’s Giant Step 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z As he trailed sadly off, the stump mike caught his rueful rendition of Larkin’s myxomatosis: Caught in the centre of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? South Africa v England: second Test, day one – live! 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z Now, at last, there's an emerging, rueful understanding that possibly Trump's support is not a function of racism, bigotry and xenophobia. The Miseducation of Donald Trump Voters 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, shortly before traveling home to the Swiss Alps for Christmas, he dialed down the bluster, appearing rueful at times. Sepp Blatter Calls it Quits, Shifts Blame to Former Allies 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z The most important thing is winning games” he adds, with a rueful smile. Valencia v Barcelona: La Liga – as it happened 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z No other time of year brings out people’s capacity for both boozy recklessness and rueful reflection – the latter often following on the heels of the former: Like A Snowman captures it perfectly. Mariah Carey, Slade and the Watersons: the songs that make it feel like Christmas 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z As he trailed sadly off, the stump mike caught his rueful rendition of Larkin’s myxomatosis: Caught in the centre of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? South Africa v England: second Test, day one – live! 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z That is why President Obama reached the rueful conclusion in 2010 that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects”—and why Mrs. Clinton’s plan promises to “cut red tape” and “streamline permitting.” Making Our Roads ‘Shovel-Ready’ 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Partly because of her uncompromising nature, the outcome proves to be rueful for both the couple and posterity. Review of ‘The Second Mrs. Wilson’: A Faltering President and His Steadfast Wife 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The most important thing is winning games” he adds, with a rueful smile. Valencia v Barcelona: La Liga – as it happened 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z Nor is he, judging by his rueful chuckle. Rafael Nadal v David Ferrer: ATP World Tour Finals – as it happened 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Three years ago, after the reëlection of Barack Obama, a rueful Republican National Committee launched an inquiry into where the Party had gone wrong. The G.O.P.’s Immigration Problem 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The rueful look on Alastair Cook’s coupon as the coin landed was priceless. Pakistan v England: third Test, day one – live! 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z After a round of applause, Obama looked rueful, but not entirely apologetic. President Obama: ‘playing like a girl means you’re a badass’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Ruth de Krivoy, a former Central Bank president, asked with a rueful laugh. Few in Venezuela Want Bolívars, but No One Can Spare a Dime 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Nor is he, judging by his rueful chuckle. Rafael Nadal v David Ferrer: ATP World Tour Finals – as it happened 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z That kind of thinking, and writing, is what turns "Casual" from a pastiche of familiar themes into a rueful examination of them. Hulu's smart 'Casual' takes its family comedy seriously 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The rueful look on Alastair Cook’s coupon as the coin landed was priceless. Pakistan v England: third Test, day one – live! 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The current lingua franca of parenthood is a rueful sigh, a sotto voce expletive and a desperate grab for a strong drink. I really love my daughter, but I’m not supposed to talk about that 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Kermit, rueful and dithered, frees a part of our own natures so absurd and defenseless that we would never let a human actor hold it in his hands. Why Grown-Ups Loved 'The Muppet Show' 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The French news media, rueful or defensive, have picked up on the decisive migrant plebiscite for Germany over France as further evidence of France’s relative decline. A Belated Welcome in France Is Drawing Few Migrants 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z “It’s a real New York story,” Mr. Lippa said with a rueful laugh. The Composer Andrew Lippa on the Upper West Side 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Tomlin is marvelous as a rueful self-awareness seeps into her character's angry eyes. With Lily Tomlin leading the way, 'Grandma' grows into a meaningful journey 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z “I guess he really had a two-track mind,” Hayes said in May, with a rueful laugh, over lunch at his favourite Texas barbecue joint. The reckless plot to overthrow Africa's most absurd dictator | Andrew Rice 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Golf’s ruling body would be entitled to rueful glances; surely this is a bargain price for epic sporting theatre. 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