Sentences with phrase «rueful half»

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On learning of the Pt 36 offer which the rueful defendant failed to accept, the judge applies the automatic uplift so now the claimant collects # 55,000.

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.

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

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 with the future - oriented euphoria of the»60s, the mood of art in that decade was darkly rueful.

It's a rueful compliment to Smithson's «earth art.»

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.

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

No one has wrestled the experiences of Beirut into words with as much brutal honesty or rueful devotion as Adnan.

Barbara Kruger's rueful mural, «Untitled (Blind Idealism is...),» appears on a wall facing west and overlooking the High Line at West 22nd Street.

Everyone has a holiday - gift disaster story: the time - saving gadget that's anything but, that wholly unsentimental frying pan, the track suit so ugly you didn't unfold it — so let the Torpedo Factory Artists» Association dispel those rueful memories.

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.

For those rueful about start - up culture's legacy of inflated fake job - titles, this etymological history of the term «rock star» reveals how the downward spiral began with boomer rock stars becoming corporate shills on the 1980s comeback concert circuit and then ended with the

When trying to self analyse that fact I come time and again, to the rueful knowledge, that I just don't feel good enough, even though people seem to love my work.

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.

Instead, people tend to shrug their shoulders, roll their eyes, flash a rueful grin... and maybe toss out one of the usual objections.

And one which can go horribly wrong — a busted value thesis may engender some rueful sympathy (wow, who knew management were such idiots..!?)

While MacDonald's story is perhaps unique to his industry, it still highlights the rueful reality of those who forgo making contributions toward pension plans over the long term.

Agent Clare Alexander had her audience laughing, their chuckles as rueful as merry.

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.

And his rueful account of false starts and structural blunders en route to writing American Gods is worth the purchase price alone.

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

He told a rueful joke about complaining to his publisher once, «You don't even know who reads my books,» as Amazon tracks its customers, only to be told, «But other publishers don't know that, either,» as if that excused data - ignorance.

Along with my name and my rueful skepticism, I acquired from my father a love of reading.

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

Now, at last, there's an emerging, rueful understanding that possibly Trump's support is not a function of racism, bigotry, and xenophobia.

Centered around two sharply drawn transgender women who find the resilience of their friendship tested and affirmed over the course of one busy Christmas Eve, writer - director Sean Baker's sun - scorched, street - level snapshot is a work of rueful, matter - of - fact insight and unapologetically wild humor that draws a motley collection of funny, sad and desperate individuals into its protagonists» orbit.

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.

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.

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).

The mavens (okay, a maven or two) on the home theater forums have been making some rueful «what might have been» comments, upset that a particular mastering person did not stick around at a particular place to supervise this particular Blu - ray of the Stanley Donen 1957 musical.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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.

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

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.

As Chris, Kaluuya is called to respond to all manners of degradations and condescension — an elderly golfer happy to tell him he knows Tiger Woods, or a middle - aged woman all too eager to invade his personal space and touch his arms to feel his muscles — with a rueful smile and world - weary eyes that tell us that these are the sorts of things black people have to deal with all the time.

(Cue the rueful acoustic guitar music.)

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.

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.»

That's it, the rueful humor of country folk and the sound of the 19th century, the voice of people who won't be beaten.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If the film only addressed those subjects, it would still be a fine example of its form, a smart, rueful Parenthood successor.