Sentences with phrase «in rueful»

With wry insight, he views the Steins ensconced in rueful domesticity.

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).

-LSB-...] something that really made me laugh (in a rueful sort of way).

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

Here's something that really made me laugh (in a rueful sort of way).

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.

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Clearly, the fast growing Indian economy transacting business in cash is something that is rueful by our multi-national debt slavers.

Jewish jokes are often exquisite exercises in self - critique and rueful self - knowledge.

At the very centre of the book is Keegan; it's his name in the subtitle, and his image on the cover — acknowledging the applause of the supporters after the final match of the season, his rueful look matching the rueful comments on the conclusion of the campaign made in conversation with Hardy 20 years later.

A rueful Nick Clegg, reflecting on the unpopularity of the coalition's health reforms, once admitted that it is best in politics to make sure the public believe there is a problem with a public service before you suggest a solution.

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.

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.»

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.

This may sound like a rueful, rambling ride in a dark tunnel of love, but the film never wallows in woe.

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.

Amid the rueful cynicism lies a rather tender love story between two people who only realize they are in love a full six years into their relationship.

Trapero directs with a high level of energy, employing pop songs (including several Kinks» numbers) to provide rueful commentary and making sure we never mistake the film for some sort of black - hearted family satire by rubbing our noses in the brutality of Arquímedes» methods.

A rueful Sarah Polley nevertheless offers the rare positive comments in remembering how kind Thurman and Gilliam were to her between takes.

Telling and comic and rueful details are there by the fistful, and for two, a set of sequences of driving in Sacramento fall into place with the weight of a two - story house, and I treasure the way Tracy Letts (playing Ronan's father) releases the words, «bag of Doritos.»

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.

In the back of my mind I could hear Robert Downey Jr.'s rueful voice: «He went full indie.

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.

This hilarious - yet - rueful tome — all written in the past tense, of course — covers everything from government to fashion, natural disasters to advertising.

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.

In contrast with the future - oriented euphoria of the»60s, the mood of art was darkly 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.

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The oldest portrait in the world — carved out of mammoth tusk 26,000 years ago in Moravia — had a long slender face, almond eyes and a rueful half - smile: just like a Modigliani.

In contrast to the future - oriented euphoria of the»60s, however, the mood of art in the»80s was retrospective and darkly ruefuIn contrast to the future - oriented euphoria of the»60s, however, the mood of art in the»80s was retrospective and darkly ruefuin the»80s was retrospective and darkly rueful.