Sentences with phrase «more rueful»

Not exact matches

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.

That rueful statement was related to temperament of her third child, which was much more challenging than the calm, easy - going temperaments of the first two.

Kate Beckinsale's Lady Susan (pictured above with Chloë Sevigny) is bewitching, an artful, pouting delight whose rueful self - awareness only makes her ruthless self - interest that much more compelling.

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.

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.