Sentences with word «rueful»
His breakdown is peppered with rueful laughter amid tears of defeat, a recognition of the absurdity of defining one's self by one idea, one he admits he can't fully remember what it was about beyond «something different.»
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Here is one performer (Testud) whose features — small sad eyes, sharp nose, wide rueful smile — can sustain a feature by themselves.
Agent Clare Alexander had her audience laughing, their chuckles as rueful as merry.
He describes school food reform as a «war against a beastie,» which made me both laugh and nod in rueful agreement.
It's all played for rueful laughs, and there are a few.
In contrast with the future - oriented euphoria of the»60s, the mood of art was darkly rueful.
After paying their respects to daughter Mary Ann, friends and colleagues of Justice McMorrow quietly milled about the church, sharing rueful half smiles and moving stories about lives changed, careers made, and hearts touched by Mary Ann McMorrow.
Clearly, the fast growing Indian economy transacting business in cash is something that is rueful by our multi-national debt slavers.
Of brown sugar» the necessary sarcastic yet rueful love?
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.
In the back of my mind I could hear Robert Downey Jr.'s rueful voice: «He went full indie.
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.
Students call these buildings, with rueful affection, Sodom and Gomorrah!
A Different Kind of Weather: A Memoir (Constable # 20) is a rather rueful and reflective volume of a politician who helped to draft the policy which would become the Poll Tax and was a casualty of the Scott Inquiry.
FORTUNE — Imagine yourself the proud but rueful owner of an ancient Jaguar.
The film is funny, but there is an undercurrent of rueful sadness as well.
We see the movie levitate when Ali and Brown chant, «Float like a butterfly,» the slogan that takes on a different meaning in each context, starting off as hopeful and spry, finally becoming rueful and pointed.
In the film, Stahl's tale is structured, appropriately, as one long, harrowing flashback, complete with rueful perspective and hacking - cough wit via Stiller's voiceover.
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.
If the film only addressed those subjects, it would still be a fine example of its form, a smart, rueful Parenthood successor.
But watch just an episode or two (which you really should if you haven't), and you'll find yourself suddenly moved, a little depressed and a little heartened by the show's rueful vibe.
During a disastrous inaugural night as a college student in New York, a drunken Lady Bird tells a fellow freshman that she's from San Francisco and is immediately rueful for selling out her hometown.
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.
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.
Back to School, which reaffirms Dangerfield's rueful fixation with material wealth after the nominally edgier Easy Money (not to mention Caddyshack), remains a fine showcase for the charms of the erstwhile «Rappin» Rodney.»
It's the Coens who've struggled with writers» block and known failure who gave all this the sliver of rueful warmth their less impressive work lacks.
The suitably dramatic, tense, even rueful orchestral music was composed by Howard Shore, winner of multiple Grammys, Oscars and Golden Globes, and probably most familiar for his scores for the Lord of the Rings movies.
A little like Andy Garcia's City Island a few years ago, it gets by almost wholly on hangdog charm, but that's an underrated asset, and so is Dillane, delivering a terse and rueful performance that's typically excellent.
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.»
As Fey observes of romantic relationships in one of the film's rueful moments, «You want the ones you can't have and... all over the ones you can.»
Kelly's Heroes is clearly a comedy, but its acid bite gives way to an an escapist last word that should probably be a bit more rueful (and come a bit sooner — at 143 minutes, Kelly's Heroes drags on a bit).
It certainly seems as if the tone of the films being released has moved from the silliness of summer to the (slightly) more somber and rueful mood of early autumn.
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.
makes for a more poetic double bill with the Coens» rueful previous, Inside Llewyn Davis.
Now, at last, there's an emerging, rueful understanding that possibly Trump's support is not a function of racism, bigotry, and xenophobia.
With wry insight, he views the Steins ensconced in rueful domesticity.
This hilarious - yet - rueful tome — all written in the past tense, of course — covers everything from government to fashion, natural disasters to advertising.
A hilarious and rueful debut novel of love, marriage, infidelity, and origami, Standard Deviation never deviates from the superb.
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.
Barbara Kruger's rueful mural, «Untitled (Blind Idealism is...),» appears on a wall facing west and overlooking the High Line at West 22nd Street.
Having lived in the shadow of artists, I found myself nodding uncontrollably at this point, and when a dealer I knew, who happened to be seated in the row in front of me, rose at the show's end, we exchanged rueful glances.
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Rosenharte allowed himself a quick, rueful smile, as though his brother was sitting on the bench beside him.
In contrast with the future - oriented euphoria of the»60s, the mood of art in that decade was darkly rueful.