Sentences with phrase «rueful by»

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

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The collapse of coalition plans for an elected second chamber — with formal last rites likely to delivered next week by a rueful Nick Clegg — is triggering another bout of speculation about the survival of the coalition.

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.

A rueful, warmly affecting film featuring a wonderful performance by Mr. Troisi, The Postman would be attention - getting even without the sadness that overshadows it.

Here is one performer (Testud) whose features — small sad eyes, sharp nose, wide rueful smile — can sustain a feature by themselves.

Composed by Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir and British composer Natalie Holt, the score is rueful and ominous, like a phantom floating through a winter's dusk.

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.

Funny, aching, rueful — often at the same time — The Kids Are All Right makes most mainstream releases this year seem decadent by comparison.

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.

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.»

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer has surrealist dips and dervishes, almost like a Buñuel picture, particularly when you consider that Martin and his rueful mother (Alicia Silverstone) seem to represent a petit bourgeois behaviorism that is offset by the Murphy's privileged long green.

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.