Sentences with phrase «rueful smile»

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.

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

The editor of its bi-monthly magazine, Fr Patrick Burke, said with a rueful smile that it has a reputation for holding «odd views about evolution».

Not exact matches

While the boys laugh and joke around - Zhem's laid - back cockiness and Kol's physical humour get the biggest laughs - we see their japes with the knowledge of the trials to come, and smiles are 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.

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.