Sentences with phrase «from rueful»
We know from rueful experience that federal regulation can be at once ineffective and economically damaging, that the government's ability to «fine - tune» the economy has been highly exaggerated, and that the tendency of welfare spending to create conditions of dependency is more than a hobgoblin of timid or reactionary minds.
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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.
Because both series tell politically charged and timely stories — Graves follows a rueful Republican played by Nick Nolte, while Berlin Station's home to an Edward Snowden - like whistle - blower — Epix seems poised to benefit from recent surveillance scandals and the current presidential election.
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.
This rueful truth offered from a Boston lawyer to a Boston journalist linger over Spotlight, Thomas McCarthy's hot - button fact - based drama that's ostensibly a lousy - with - heroes story of bringing to light the Catholic Church's scandalous cover - up and protection of child - abusing priests, but more broadly an indictment of so many willing to look the other way.
The movie crackles with an emotional energy, and cackles with a rueful laughter, that have been missing from his recent films, but which return in full force now that Baumbach has again taken up his theme of children being twisted into odd shapes by a parent's monstrous self - regard.
Along with my name and my rueful skepticism, I acquired from my father a love of reading.
This hilarious - yet - rueful tome — all written in the past tense, of course — covers everything from government to fashion, natural disasters to advertising.
He tore a corner from the back page of somebody's discarded Ellsworth American and tucked it between the pages of his old Loeb edition of Herodotus, measuring with a rueful snort the remaining unread inches.