Sentences with phrase «as rueful»

Further, the massive rusting curves of iron and steel in the ship breaking series serve as a rueful counterpoint to minimalism's heroic use of industrial materials.

Agent Clare Alexander had her audience laughing, their chuckles as rueful as merry.

Bad things happened in both chapters, but Helen's half - hour was sharp and witty as well as rueful, with all of the episode's best scenes.»

Sin - Dee and Alexandra's last, quiet scene together, in a laundromat not far from the same Donut Time franchise where they began their action - packed Christmas Eve, succeeds at once as a new kind of female buddy comedy and as a rueful reflection on the meaning of coming home — by whatever definition you choose to understand that word — for the holidays.

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Richardson is quick to add, in a rueful comment that captures the bind that states find themselves in, «I probably would've done the same thing as Governor Sandoval.

But still I sensed the Spirit, infinite patience and rueful love, waiting for me to trust the invitation as I defiantly poured another glass of wine.

He describes school food reform as a «war against a beastie,» which made me both laugh and nod in rueful agreement.

The film is funny, but there is an undercurrent of rueful sadness as well.

Filmmaker Joseph Lovett, himself a gay activist who produced one of the first major investigative stories on AIDS to be broadcast on American television, interviewed a number of men who survived the»70s for his documentary Gay Sex in the»70s, which offers a sometimes witty and sometimes rueful look back at the discos, bathhouses, underground clubs, and gay - friendly resorts which dominated the social and sexual scene of the day, as well as the stories of the men who sought to declare their new identities through sex.

In John Ford's rueful 1946 allegory about the human cost of America's new role as global peacekeeper, Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda) agrees to clean up Tombstone, Arizona, as a pretext for revenging his teenage brother's murder by Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his rustler sons.

Given Hartley's gradual fade from indie prominence since the»90s, it's tempting to read Simon as his director's bitterly rueful stand - in.

His attitude to becoming newly unemployed is one of rueful resignation, distinguishing him from Metcalf's Marion, who plays this up as a tragic disaster, setting her jaw even more than usually to woebegone.

As Chris, Kaluuya is called to respond to all manners of degradations and condescension — an elderly golfer happy to tell him he knows Tiger Woods, or a middle - aged woman all too eager to invade his personal space and touch his arms to feel his muscles — with a rueful smile and world - weary eyes that tell us that these are the sorts of things black people have to deal with all the time.

Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) presides over a sketchy mishmash of portals - and - immortals cosmology involving our old friend the Strangely Gifted Child With Visions (Tom Taylor), an interdimensional cowboy known as the Gunslinger (Idris Elba, muttering away in rueful basso) and a fiendish sorcerer (Matthew McConaughey, entertainingly serpentine in Christopher Walken's hair).

Where we might have expected a gentle or rueful coda, we get a battle of the sexes as blistering as the best of Tracy / Hepburn, and infinitely more frank.

Not for nothing has Leigh had a parallel career in the theatre: the various seasons function in cinematic terms as the four acts of a celluloid play, Chekhov's rueful spirit rarely far off.

He told a rueful joke about complaining to his publisher once, «You don't even know who reads my books,» as Amazon tracks its customers, only to be told, «But other publishers don't know that, either,» as if that excused data - ignorance.

It does not mean only feeding and cleaning up after the pets, they pay attention to each animal, too, try cheering rueful kinds and keep them as happier as they can.

But the combination of recognizable referents that appear to leave her figures nearly paralyzed — their partially opened eyes in a continuous state of rueful pondering — is what the viewer will recognize as disconcertingly familiar, a state of mind that syncs up perfectly with the contemporary moment.

No one has wrestled the experiences of Beirut into words with as much brutal honesty or rueful devotion as Adnan.