She sounded almost rueful as she discussed a political environment in which her brand of bipartisan dealmaking sets her apart.
Beyond his mastery of the issues, Obama revealed a more personal note: a slightly rueful sense that the world was tightening around him, that he would no longer be able to take a .
Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence of lean-year reality to please those who detest animals that behave like humans.
Our critic's selections Before Midnight Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke return as Celine and Jesse, the young strangers on a heady Viennese walkabout in 1995's Before Sunrise, the couple sharing a rueful Paris reunion in 2004's Before Sunset. Now they are married with children, on vacation in Greece and facing the everyday realities of a relationship, trying to balance careers with filial responsibilities. It's talky and ...
June 9, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Laura Lippman in San Francisco Chronicle The Tess Monaghan books, I've always said, have a rueful belief in human possibility - rueful optimism that sometimes people won't disappoint you,Lippman said. "That probably lines up pretty well with how I am."
Dmitry Medvedev in AFP This type of impossible and unimaginable event occurs not merely because the roads are of rueful quality,Medvedev said in remarks broadcast on state television.
Avishai Margalit in Israel Insider Of the book Siach Lochamim, which was published soon after the Six Day War and featured conversations with soldiers, Margalit wrote: "The clear but unstated message of the book was one of rueful moral self-congratulation: we are beautiful, but we...