Sentences with phrase «with rueful»

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.

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.

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.

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.»

Chris Baugh's accomplished debut feature manages to develop its own distinct flavor while fitting snugly into the general tradition of latter - day U.K. gangster pics, with their rueful humor, colorful characters and realistically nasty -LSB-...]

Unfolds beautifully, with a rueful, knowing intelligence that rises above easy assumptions.

It worked «the first time we tried it,» Kayyem recalls, with a rueful laugh.

Students call these buildings, with rueful affection, Sodom and Gomorrah!

Taylor acknowledges, with a rueful nod to his secular critics, that this articulation is a dangerous undertaking.

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».

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At the very centre of the book is Keegan; it's his name in the subtitle, and his image on the cover — acknowledging the applause of the supporters after the final match of the season, his rueful look matching the rueful comments on the conclusion of the campaign made in conversation with Hardy 20 years later.

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.

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.

A rueful Nick Clegg, reflecting on the unpopularity of the coalition's health reforms, once admitted that it is best in politics to make sure the public believe there is a problem with a public service before you suggest a solution.

Bad things happened in both chapters, but Helen's half - hour was sharp and witty as well as rueful, with all of the episode's best scenes.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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).

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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