Sentences with phrase «rueful self»

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.»

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.