Mr. Johnson, a betrayer betrayed, seemed more rueful than angry.
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Ms. Racette's rueful maturity came as a relief after intermission.
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It was almost rueful, although without the aftertaste of bitterness.
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"I enjoyed that," he said afterward with a rueful smile.
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"I haven't found time," she says with a rueful smile.
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Jones's immediate predecessor, Stuart Lancaster, can be permitted a rueful smile.
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"Unfortunately, it's kind of a Cuban trait," laments a rueful doctor.
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"Maybe I'll win this time," Babashoff said with a rueful laugh.
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Mr Cameron is rueful about the way the referendum played out.
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"It didn't help much today," Mickelson said with a rueful laugh.
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"So many hurricanes I can remember," he said with a rueful chuckle.
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We'd watch him begin a rueful clap swallow disappointment and clap slowly.
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"It took 12 years," said a rueful Ms. Refice, the ministry official.
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"Except for the breast-cancer part," she said with a rueful laugh.
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I'm pretty sure his response was a rueful approximation of a smile.
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"Desire does not go out like a match," the rueful narrator concludes.
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Instead, Hangouts has become something of a rueful, inside joke among Android users.
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The narrator's tone turns rueful, tender; a piece of gossip has become literature.
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"The rents here do not allow lingering," Bartels said with a rueful laugh.
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This quiet, rueful little play needs to keep breathing in that final scene.
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"I'm glad I didn't get a Steinway," he said with a rueful laugh.
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La Gracia, Niezgoda announced in a rueful Facebook post on Saturday, will not open.
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Drifting off to sleep, Phoebe heard rueful laughter, a wistful conspiracy to follow her.
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More than once I put the book down to grimace in rueful self-recognition.
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Terrible revelations were batted back and forth in a spirit of rueful one-upmanship.
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"It is always safe in America," she says, to rueful laughs from the audience.
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This is a light, rueful comedy, whose motor is the absence of anything happening.
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"And those two songs were the hits," the singer says with a rueful chuckle.
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"And those two songs were the hits," the singer says with a rueful chuckle.
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The familiar wonder and mirthfulness of his voice has a note of rueful loss.
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Opening the video with the laugh, 10 searing seconds of rueful amusement, is just perfect.
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"Falstaff" also never stops moving, its almost ceaseless action sometimes joyful, sometimes rueful, sometimes frantic.
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Jana Prikryl's readers will quickly discover such rueful humor is typical of her understated sensibility.
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It would be wrong to say he's not rueful about the withering of legacy publications.
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"My plan A was to leave in a boat," he said with a rueful smile.
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It makes Nut angry that he's gone, and rueful that so much was left unsaid.
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No twitch of an eye or a cheek, no ghost of a tender or rueful smile.
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In the exchange, equal parts rueful and playful, Hakeem, Jamal and Andre all face serious burdens.
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Mr. Barnett never sounds rueful, only grateful for the shot he once had, and maybe missed.
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She speaks in a slow and deliberate southern accent, often gracing her speech with rueful smiles.
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But it is also steeped in a rueful awareness that such attempts are doomed to fail.
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Between episodes of professional breakdown, he's given to rueful inner monologues on the theme of futility.
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Evan Williams, a founder of Twitter, the social media service where abuse often flourishes, is rueful.
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That laughter grew more bitter and rueful over time, but the show never lost its magic.
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Some books are rueful meditations on father/son relationships, while others are hilarious dives into parenting misadventures.
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"That brings me up to 72,354 over the years," she said with a sense of rueful satisfaction.
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In contrast with the future-oriented euphoria of the '60s, the mood of art was darkly rueful.
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Dr. Richardson offered a rueful college memory of not bothering to vote in the 1980 presidential election.
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"I could have had a couple more, definitely, with him around," Els said with a rueful smile.
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If you want to know more: Do not expect a laugh riot, though there are some rueful chuckles.
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"He said, 'That's nice, Ellen, but we don't take girls,' " she recalled, her tone more bemused than rueful.
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It was rapidly retweeted by those who shared these rueful memories and sense of empathic bond with missing Sasha.
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As for Wagner, he divides himself between the older, rueful master Sachs and the brilliant upstart Walther von Stolzing.
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"It's been so fun to research, but I keep bumping into old flames," Dan said, with a rueful grimace.
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Jen's angry and cynical and hard-edged, Judy's rueful and apologetic and twee, and we know where that's going.
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In his later years he grew rueful about the multiplicity of images afforded by digital photography and social media.
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His tone was one of embattlement and occasional grievance, and his remarks were punctuated by wry and rueful humor.
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Mr. Florido's reaction injects some rueful humor, but this "La Ronde" doesn't have much of Schnitzler's wry Mitteleuropa fatalism.
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The video has a rueful, Solomonic conceit: the way that many objects, divided precisely in half, become useless. J.P.
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"We had a lot of chances, even me I should have scored in the 87th (minute)," said a rueful Hummels.
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In contrast with the future-oriented euphoria of the '36003s, the mood of art in that decade was darkly rueful.
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In contrast with the future-oriented euphoria of the '2845s, the mood of art in that decade was darkly rueful.
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In contrast with the future-oriented euphoria of the '60s, the mood of art in that decade was darkly rueful.
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She sums it all up in the song's pithy, rueful chorus: "We didn't drink on weeknights when we were young".
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" There is rueful retracing here: "Just once I wanted / to hit & hold the person / who could hit & hold / me down.
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Sitting in a conference room outside his office in Prague, Mr. Babis was by turns angry, rueful and deeply emotional.
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The author of this powerful and rueful essay is his widow, Nada Bakri, who has also reported for The Times.
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The author of this powerful and rueful essay is his widow, Nada Bakri, who has also reported for The Times.
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We are grateful for every kind gesture and can only hope those who invited us will understand our rueful exhaustion.
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Slow-paced, sad, rueful and sometimes warmly funny, "After the Storm" is one of his sturdiest, and most sensitive, constructions.
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The 13 books, published from 1999 to 2006, are dark and rueful, obsessed with language and with libraries as sacred spaces.
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" 'The delivery system is believed to reduce the abuse liability of the drug,' " he recited to me, with a rueful laugh.
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In "Pipeline," Pittman has had to put aside what she does best, which is maintaining a rueful distance from the proceedings.
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Today, the bond between Ms. Nieves and Mr. Copes, now in their 80s, appears imbued with a kind of rueful respect.
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This devised theater company, under the direction of Lila Neugebauer, creates intricate, particular worlds and populates them with resonant, rueful characters.
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"The Man I Can Love," Angela's rueful, comic solo of perpetually compromised dating ideals, is a high point of Act 1.
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As her parents focus on Greta, neglecting her, Beata withdraws, and then, as Malena describes with rueful candor, one day erupts.
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Atwood's wry and rueful tales bridge the gap between your usual reading habits and your new interest in the natural world.
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"In my family, there is a competition to see who suffers most," one young man told me, with a rueful smile.
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Even the things he enjoys he speaks about in a rueful tone, as if he resents them for eliciting feelings of positivity.
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The best is probably Joe Dante's rueful evaluation of The Howling II, the follow-up knock-off of Dante's famous werewolf picture.
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It opens in churchly quiet, with Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim exchanging rueful intimacies about the end of a love affair.
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We thought that maybe it should be a ballad so that you deliver this sort of rueful lyric with a melancholy music.
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They're spoken by the former hedge fund manager Florian Homm, a louche and rueful mansplainer of the collapse of American fiscal responsibility.
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The entry for March 15, 295, when he's so broke he has Cream of Wheat for dinner, gave me a rueful smile.
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One feels turned away from while being spoken to directly, and nonetheless compelled to continue while a rueful form of emotional complexity develops.
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And the rueful track is the first the singer has released since she and ex Blake Shelton announced they had divorced last July.
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As the Dutchman now reflects on his premature departure from Manchester United, he might think about his former subordinate with a rueful smile.
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Mr. Simon's worldview, spelled out with rueful, crystalline precision in everything he's ever done (particularly "The Wire") is simple: The game is rigged.
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In contrast to the future-oriented euphoria of the '210s, however, the mood of art in the '260s was retrospective and darkly rueful.
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Barbara Kruger's rueful mural, "Untitled (Blind Idealism is …)," appears on a wall facing west and overlooking the High Line at West 22nd Street.
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" And there is a poignancy, too, to the deep and rueful knowledge of the ravages of alcohol laid so bare in "Big Blonde.
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The book turns rueful, jaded and more than a little melodramatic as the bills come due for certain of Juliet's heedless past actions.
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Miles Malleson's 1933 play, receiving its world premiere courtesy of the Mint Theater, is a refined, rueful and often shrewd comedy about polyamory.
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She's rueful about sitting out the 2016 presidential election and failing to mobilize her millions of fans and followers against Donald Trump's candidacy.
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Her recent documentaries, while not exactly confessional, are unabashedly personal, infused with her voice, her eye, her wry and rueful on-camera presence.
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But if the opening night of the festival was a rueful chuckle and a grim shake of the head, Wednesday had a different take.
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Johnson could only offer a rueful smile before sinking a 14-footer to salvage a bogey from what could have been a considerable wreck.
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Now, by way of rueful compensation, we have "The White Crow," a film about Nureyev—or, at least, about his first twenty-three years.
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"Unfortunately I've been around long enough that I'm used to calls like that," Peter Gelb, the Met's general manager, recalled with a rueful chuckle.
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"We're going to get very, very cross," was what one rueful Tory member of Parliament told me of what he expects of his government.
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It's at once rueful and optimistic, a journey that undoes decades of declining ambition by imagining how an alternate past spawns a new future.
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The stories vary greatly in tone and voice — by turns, raw, wry, rueful, comic, elliptical and confiding — but there is little sarcasm or snark.
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"Never believe a fisherman when he tells you this is the 'last one,'" he says with a rueful laugh as the line comes up empty.
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"You know, when I was young, I was fascinated by the Algonquin Round Table, by all those witty alcoholics," he said, with a rueful laugh.
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Aaron is of course the story-teller-in-chief, and it his wry and rueful recollections of that season in Levittown that frame the proceedings.
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That distinction was a major reason for the partition, and for the decades of ethnonationalist violence referred to, with rueful Irish stoicism, as the Troubles.
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"Sledgehammer," a rueful and dark song penned by Sia, stands in pretty stark contrast to the hammy Beastie Boys track selected for the film's first trailer.
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In 1976, Mary and Charley (Manu Narayan) have lunch, she sings the rueful "Like It Was," and Frank shows up and punches Charley in the jaw.
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When asked if there was anything positive for the Cubs to take from Game 4, first baseman Anthony Rizzo cited that moment, with a rueful smile.
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"It doesn't give you a whole load of confidence in American open-ocean navigation," he said, to a rueful smile from others in the online room.
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The musical, a rueful deconstruction of the unraveling of a three-way friendship, will be a production of Fiasco Theater, which is Roundabout's company in residence.
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Gerald Finley — his bass-baritone of modest size but precise, focused deployment — is a rueful Don Alfonso, the older man who spurs the plot's cruel games.
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"The Ones We Couldn't Be," the final track on Bonnie Raitt's soul-rattling new album, "Dig in Deep," is a rueful hymn to what might have been.
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And as Jackie's own "mum," Hilary Tones anchors with a rueful awareness of life's regrets a clipped narrative that seems peculiarly divorced from the decades it traverses.
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"Utopia" means "no place" in Greek, and so a sly element of rueful self-acknowledgment resides within the idea, with the auto-negation of a Magritte drawing.
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And they noted, with rueful irony, that Trump used his own high-profile impeachment trial to mount the innuendo-laden investigation he initially asked Ukraine to perform.
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I spent most of "Just Mercy" devastated by its most rueful death-row inmate, only to belatedly realize that it was Morgan who was breaking my heart.
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And yet it all made sense only as farce — of race, of memory (just the day before he appeared in a rueful statement acknowledging it was him).
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The original proponents of the 2401(k) plan, which has become the dominant source of retirement savings for most Americans, are rueful about the revolution they unintentionally began.
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"Welcome to the end of eras," he sings on "Emperor's New Clothes," sounding rueful as well as relieved: Farewell to all that, but not without a highlight reel.
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Whereas other rappers would pivot between braggadocious and rueful from song-to-song, Keef explores all manner of moods within the confines of a seemingly one-note concept.
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What's more is that she'd been dreaming of fulfilling this very fantasy for four years, as her mother wrote in a rueful Facebook post in the incident's aftermath.
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Amid peppery dialogue and solid production values, the movie acknowledges show-business absurdities (green-screen emoting, the seeming ubiquity of people hawking their own scripts) with rueful affection.
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Theater Miles Malleson's 1933 play, closing on Saturday after receiving its world premiere courtesy of the Mint Theater, is a refined, rueful and often shrewd comedy about polyamory.
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Yet after his rueful character, a small-time hood named Lou, takes a shine to Sally (Sarandon), a struggling oyster-bar waitress, their connection develops a melancholy magic.
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Now and then, to be fair, Falstaff does lift the corner of the gloom, and I liked his rueful sangfroid, on the eve of the Battle of Agincourt.
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Luckily, so expert is Firth's timing—like that of Emma Thompson, as Bridget's obstetrician—that laughs, often of the rueful variety, can be conjured in the stalest scenes.
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The work is conspicuously framed with wide, beveled-wood molding painted a tasteful, décor-friendly purplish-red that looks great (and somehow slightly rueful) against the photo's sooty tones.
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" On a more rueful note, "Augie looks at me like a lost puppy, in a foreign place with no partner anymore, nothing to call his own except his smartphone.
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He was in fact an avowed anti-fascist — in his politics, and in his funny, rueful war-weariness, he belongs to the lineage of Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.
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The tale of parallel drownings in a frozen Minnesota river 10 years apart, it has the atmosphere of an A.A. meeting: rueful, solemn, suffused with shy and tender hopes.
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Alan Rickman, the British actor who played the iconic baddie in Die Hard and brought to life the rigid and rueful Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films has died.
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Directed by Neil Pepe, this rueful work portrays the existential crisis of a country and western star (Timothy Olyphant) who returns to his hometown after the death of his mother.
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"If Only" finds her considering what might have been — a conceit that also fuels the album's most potent song, "Everything I Couldn't Be," a rueful waltz written with Dave Brainard.
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The director is fond of his doomed characters and, as in his lone Czech production, the rueful comedy "Intimate Lighting" (1965), he does not judge so much as observe them.
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A voiceover "yada yadas" the basics of Peter Parker's origin story, while winking at almost every iteration of it; even the much-maligned Spider-Man 3 gets a rueful shoutout.
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Miranda Lambert "Vice" (Vanner/RCA Nashville) Ms. Lambert girds this rueful anthem with steely fatalism, rooted in the belief that every mistake is yours to own, however many times. 10.
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Milt Moss, a comic actor who delivered the rueful catchphrase "I can't believe I ate that whole thing" in a memorable commercial for Alka-Seltzer in 1972, died on Sept.
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His pride in Kamasi was obvious, but I thought I also detected a rueful note: Rickey supported his family as a music teacher and never earned more than a local reputation.
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The authors concluded their study with the somewhat rueful observation that the mysterious spider's secretive habits and nocturnal lifestyle enabled it to successfully avoid not only predators, but researchers as well.
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Mr. Aboutboul uses his scruffy face to underscore the rueful moments (and to heighten the comically uncomfortable ones), while Ms. Kaplan de Macedo, underused here, projects warmth and a fragile optimism.
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When Brett's wife says that she wasn't a racist until she moved into their crummy neighborhood, her rueful delivery suggests that she was regrettably forced — dragged across concrete, perhaps — into prejudice.
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky, the charismatic Siberian baritone who won critical acclaim and devoted fans around the world for his burnished voice, uncanny breath control and rueful expressivity, died on Wednesday in London.
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There's plenty of off-color banter that takes advantage of Fey's comic timing and ease with that particular combination of flailing frustration and rueful acceptance that marks so many of her characters.
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It's a warm-hearted and rueful documentary that looks back at all the hopes raised and dreams dashed as Merrily rolled its way to an early grave, and now it's on Netflix.
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"Having my mother's death and my daughter's birth coincide, it was very traumatic for everybody," he said with a rueful, nasal laugh, the kind he tends to affix to moments of gravitas.
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Reflecting on that experience, he quotes the line from the 1996 film "Jerry Maguire," in which the hard-working single mom, Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), is rueful about flying economy with her son.
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Julie Otsuka's urgent, rueful "Diem Perdidi" — inspired by her own mother's dementia — takes a hypnotic form ("she remembers" and "she does not remember") that's easy to read quickly, but hard to forget.
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There is a rueful saying in the west of Ireland that "you can't eat scenery," but it's only half true: During the summer, tourism is the lifeblood of the beautiful Atlantic seaboard.
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Loneliness mingles with rueful comedy, and ordinary things — in "The Balloon," a colander, a toy bear, the bear's missing eye and a black balloon — become transitional objects on their way to metaphor.
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The storyline involves Majid getting into an argument with his girlfriend as they both wear loose dress shirts (sexy!) and his rueful memories of getting blue balls from aforementioned pouty, scantily-clad women.
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When his Elyot in "Private Lives" said to his bedmate (and ex-wife), Amanda (Lindsay Duncan, his perfect partner), "We're in love all right," the words tolled with a rueful ring of doom.
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Klopp could not help but smile, a rueful, disbelieving smile, when he saw that shot — Messi's 600th goal for his club — sail past Alisson Becker, and effectively end this semifinal as a contest.
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I couldn't have known, at age six, that our show had a limited run — and yet, long before adulthood, my empty-lot explorations, in memory, became fused to Sondheim's rueful music and words.
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But Ms. Walter's wizard is a man of rueful contemplation, too, conscious of himself as a victim of his own hunger for control, and wrenchingly unresolved about the traitorous enemies he must forgive.
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And, more than anything he has written (including his rueful "The Real Thing"), "Leopoldstadt" feels like an act of personal reckoning for its creator — with who he is and what he comes from.
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William McPherson, a novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic for The Washington Post who won late-life acclaim for a rueful essay describing his descent into poverty, died on Tuesday in Washington.
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Rueful analysts stare into television cameras, lamenting and wondering why Republicans aren't fleeing from the President over the impeachment hearings (he stands at 90% approval among his party in the latest Gallup poll).
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Rated 15 in Britain and R in America, "Logan" is not a typical Marvel superhero blockbuster as much as a grim cross between a rueful western and a dystopian "Mad Max"-esque road movie.
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In its original context — situated in 1781 — it's a rueful recognition that the country had a long way to go to secure the same legal rights for its black citizens as its white ones.
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Send kaomoji more easilyScreenshot: GizmodoIf you often find kaomoji useful in your conversations—from the table flip to the rueful shrug—it's now easier to send them in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update.
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In the morning, Darcy is rueful about the sex and tersely pre-empts any notion of reviving their relationship by stating that he doesn't want to use up any more of Jones's childbearing years.
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No one is more plausible than Damon at playing battered heroes with their backs against the wall, yet even at his most thuggish, in the Bourne films, he held fast to a rueful integrity.
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Tommy Pico's "Nature Poem," published earlier this year, begins with stars, cliffs and waves, but his dashing, rueful, occasionally lewd lines skewer expectations and biases surrounding his identity as a young, gay American Indian.
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But he turned rueful when discussing the unionization push and other challenges that he had not fully expected when he opened the giant Ohio factory, even blaming excessive union power for America's industrial decline.
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They also performed a remarkable song, "The Giraffes Go to Hamburg," Mr. Previn's setting of a rueful passage from an Isak Dinesen memoir about two captured giraffes on a cargo steamer bound for Hamburg.
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His friend and pupil Italo Svevo—the Jewish director of a family painting business, whose real name was Ettore Schmitz—set his rueful comic classic "Zeno's Conscience" in the tolerant, bourgeois home city he adored.
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I don't forget Clay Shirky's rueful dictum that "it's not a revolution if nobody loses," and I concede that the losers in any technologically wrought social transformation are often those with the least to lose.
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This production doesn't ultimately provide the emotional payoff we were hoping for, but it reminds us of what a craftsman Gurney was, and how many rueful shades of warmth he could find in frozen lives.
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Aside from a brief flash of bared bum in the final scene, there is no full nudity here, and the show looks at its characters not with a leer but a rueful smile of compassion.
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Her work manages to express a certain wistfulness, with a rueful woolly smile occasionally emerging from the ratty swirls of colored fabric cords and sheep fleece she uses to construct her animalistic, slightly unsettling pieces.
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And we have known this all along, so that we take not just the pleasure of superiority and revenge in seeing the downfall of Harvey Weinstein, but the rueful knowledge that he is like us.
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As planking and Tebowing showed, "kids these days and their digital dares!" is an established traffic machine for click-based media companies; adding an element of peril only increases the rueful headshaking over Gen-Z shenanigans.
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Whereas he used to rap mostly in the present tense, much of his new album switches to the past, offering a more rueful perspective on the hedonistic pursuits of his teen-age years and early twenties.
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The actor is both friendly and rueful, hopeful and disgusted, as he coaxes us to try to put ourselves in his shoes, or perhaps those of all our fellow travelers (literal and otherwise) on this trip.
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At the rehearsal, in a cramped studio a few blocks south of Penn Station, Mr. Lamar and a small ensemble read through "Oh, Graveyard," a combination of trembling piano, rueful string quartet harmonies and spidery electronics.
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For other families, the separation from fathers and husbands has forced them into a rueful reckoning: The immigration crackdown they had always associated with other people had, somehow, leapt from the southern border to their subdivisions.
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But then the song changes for a moment: "You're spring to me, all things to me," she sings, and then lets out a sigh, or maybe even a grunt, that is rueful and a little acerbic.
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GRADE: A- KEY TRACKS "Vice": The lead single's rueful love letter to wrong turns and misdemeanors "Highway Vagabond": A near-perfect wanderlust anthem "Pushin' Time": A lovely heartbreaker of a ballad "Ugly Lights": Every barfly's best nightmare
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I found myself viewing death as two very different (and equally problematic) beasts — a hulking, dark thing that we only discuss in whispers and a lurking shadow that simply absorbs the rueful jokes we hurl at it.
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She never took herself seriously in the movies and, to her eternal credit, it shows throughout, even in last year's "The Force Awakens", when she played an older, rueful version of the spunky princess-turned-rebel-general.
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Johnson is a departure from the rueful, acerbic quipsters she has perfected onstage (in "Other Desert Cities" and "The Assembled Parties," for which she won Tonys), and Ms. Light brings a vibrant, thirsty eroticism to the part.
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But "An American Soldier," having its premiere in an expanded two-act version here at Opera Theater of St. Louis and seen on Saturday, is convincing, driven by Mr. Hwang's rueful libretto and Mr. Huang's arresting music.
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" 'Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine' joins 'Palestinian refugees are going back home one day' in the let's-hope-it-will-happen-but-it-never-will department," Mustapha Hamoui, a Lebanese blogger, wrote in a rueful tweet.
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A rueful old line from my own heritage says that if you should happen to forget that you're Jewish, someone will remind you: a truth reconfirmed by the upsurge in vocal anti-Semitism unleashed by the Trump phenomenon.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May met U.S. business chiefs from firms including Goldman Sachs, IBM and Amazon on Monday in New York to try and reassure investors, while German leader Angela Merkel appeared rueful over the refugee crisis.
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Poem Selected by RITA DOVE Who among us hasn't looked back at youth with rueful bemusement — all that impatience and hunger and certitude, that yearning for tragic emotion, for an adult heartache that will come all too soon?
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Her bemused take on tragedy — she utters an amazing, rueful chuckle while saying "I think someone is lying" — sets the tone for the rest of the 75-minute show, which has been rearranged and condensed into one act.
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What we get instead are hopped-up rants against pussy hats cut with rueful digressions about menopause and marriage, like a dismal cross between a Bari Weiss op-ed and Nora Ephron's I Feel Bad About My Neck.
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In one sequence, as Rick talks about losing out on the role which ultimately went to Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, his rueful reminiscences are intercut with scenes from the film with DiCaprio digitally inserted in McQueen's place.
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His story sparks the plot of Ahmed Saadawi's brilliant, rueful novel, which won the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and has recently appeared in a crisp, moving, and mordantly humorous English translation from Jonathan Wright and Penguin Books.
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"Fahrenheit 11/9" is saddened, irate, and scattershot, edited with snap and crackle by Doug Abel and Pablo Proenza, and stirred by Moore's rueful awareness that, in an emergency, the call to action should override the pleasures of irreverence.
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In movies like The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding, he's often presented the complications of marriages and divorces and shifting family dynamics as a rueful part of living, part of the dark comedy of existence.
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Perched on a stool on the stage of Feinstein's/54 Below, Charles Busch eased into the first bars of Diana Ross's torchy 1973 hit "Touch Me in the Morning," his voice soft and husky, his delivery relaxed but rueful.
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"It's just me myself and I" rapped De La Soul a decade later, and "Me me me me me me I I I," intoned the folk singer Patty Larkin, strumming a guitar as her audience chuckled in rueful recognition.
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Yet among Democratic stalwarts, there is a sometimes-rueful recognition that a cultural gulf separates them from the party's next generation, much of which inhabits a world of freewheeling social media and countercultural podcasts that are wholly unfamiliar to older Democrats.
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" He was understandably rueful, arguing how wrong it was that elections are held under "the purview of privately owned machines, where the public doesn't have the right to know whether the algorithm has been checked or whether they're hackable or not.
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More specifically, could Leopold Bloom's rueful contemplations — part of Bloom's tragedy is that besides being Jewish he's smarter than everyone else, placing him doubly outside of their conversations — have resonated in some oblique way with Buttigieg's experiences as a gay Midwesterner?
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"I didn't see girls like everyone else - I thought it was a bad spirit that had invaded me," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation with a rueful laugh by phone from France, where she sought asylum last year with her girlfriend's help.
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His own, folksy take—strikingly different from the chiming, driving Stone Poneys number—underlines his distinctive qualities as a writer and performer: his way with a melody, his phrasing of concise narrative detail and his capacity to be at once wry and rueful.
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It's a sunny distraction if now also a rueful finale to a career that for about a decade starting in the mid-1990s, enlivened movie screens with grace, range and peerless turns from the likes of Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger and Michael Douglas.
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Ms. Womack started recording during a decade ruled by megawatt divas, and she's fond of pointing out that she insisted on a debut single, "Never Again, Again" — a rueful, waltz-time ballad with robust, bluegrass-style harmonies — that conveyed her artistic inclinations.
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The two big openings during my week there were Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt," a rueful history play about anti-Semitism in 20th-century Vienna, and Tony Kushner's sprawling adaptation of "The Visit," Friedrich Dürrenmatt's grim fable of human greed as a loaded weapon.
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So for a leading role in a high-profile movie to vanish at the behest of studio execs -- insiders who rationalize their decisions with rueful musings about how there are "no Asian stars" big enough to play Asian characters in major movies -- wasn't just unfortunate.
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Her sarcasm is on rueful display in her new memoir, "This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), in which she writes of trying to please a father for whom she is too American, too vivid and altogether too much.
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But even an initial brush with "Improvement" is an experience of hypnotic vocal virtuosity — the cast makes its way through an enormous quantity of words with choral synchronicity and stunning clarity — and emotional weight, rueful humor and a pleasant sense of bathing in idiosyncratic charm.
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It explores the allegiance of black communities to Mr Simpson on an "emotional…not rational" level (in the rueful words of a black member of the prosecuting team, Christopher Darden), whereby Simpson's arrest falls into a familiar story of black persecution at the hands of the police.
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But Sondheim's rueful score captured the sweep and sting of regretful memory and abandoned hopes, and introduced the cabaret standard "Not a Day Goes By." B.B. Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize winner and a show that breathtakingly expanded the possibilities for the form and subject of the genre.
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This one, called "Soft Power," written by Chinese artists instead of Americans, is both a rueful romance like "Stick With Your Mistake" and a gleeful riposte to Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I," inverting that Golden Age classic's fallacies and stereotypes to hilarious and pungent effect.
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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 — until the very end, when it overlapped with Noah's point of view and was tainted by the uninteresting Gunther story line.
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Fair enough — and a few lines, whether original or interpolated, elicited rueful laughter from an audience asked to recall a period of American history when a top marginal tax rate of almost 85 percent left the treasury overflowing with the potential to do good in the world.
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The former Florida governor drew applause and rueful head-shaking from an overflow crowd in this suburban Charleston town when he called out the party's front-runner for having mocked Senator John McCain, the winner of South Carolina's 2008 Republican primary, for being captured in the Vietnam War.
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" Hall's laugh is rueful when she says everyone was aware how it sounded coming from a white man but added, "I know that he was conscious of the weight that black women have had, and what they do bear, and how they do take on so much and multitask.
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Back at the Citadel (who can I give a -03 for the utterly ridiculous sequencing of this episode?), Jorah is writing Daenerys a rueful love letter, and it's unclear who is going to agree to mail his toxic germs to the new self-proclaimed Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
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Role Call: Marcus Hamilton, the good-ol'-boy Texas Ranger whose last case before retirement is a string of bank heists Jeff Bridges' love affair with Westerns began long before his first Oscar nomination for 1971's The Last Picture Show, a rueful ode to a dying Texas town.
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Instead we travel from topic to topic in discrete, sardonic vignettes that culminate in pithy but unsatisfying kickers: a rueful jab at the "national symphony of commerce, the most authentic-sounding American music of all," or something about the orchestra on the Titanic playing as the ship went down.
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" An account of a ménage à trois — involving Paul, Stewart and our narrator — that apparently ended really badly, it is steeped in the rueful, reproachful nostalgia of a certain poetic breed of gay fiction that flourished four decades ago, most memorably in Andrew Holleran's "Dancer From the Dance.
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"We're essentially a criminal operation, whose only produce is large-scale fraud," a rueful Jared tells a prospective employee in the trailer, while the ousted Pied Piper creator is busy creeping around in a hoodie, smashing things, insisting he's not crazy and getting questionable affirmations from a bearded Haley Joel Osment.
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More than that: It presumed, as Stevens noted in his rueful dissent, that the Framers of the Constitution wanted to limit, for all time, the ability of elected officials to regulate the civilian use of deadly weapons—weapons with a capacity to maim and murder that would be utterly unrecognizable to the Framers.
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Well after leaving Congress, Mr. Houghton remained outspoken about national politics and, in frequent interviews and letters to the editor of upstate New York publications, was rueful that the partisan differences he had worked to overcome in the House had grown only more bitter, both in the House and among Americans generally.
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The truth is, of course, that our children come to know us very well as they grow up, and they are unlikely to be shocked, or even mildly surprised, by our faults — but acknowledging those faults with an increasing degree of rueful honesty is a way of acknowledging our children as equals.
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" But on "Kill Jay-Z," the rueful opening song, he contemplates the downsides of having such a strong one: "Die Jay-Z, this ain't back in the days/You don't need an alibi, Jay-Z/Cry Jay-Z, we know the pain is real/But you can't heal what you never reveal.
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The first was formulated by a rueful Bundy, many years after the end of the Vietnam War: "We ought not to ever be in a position where we are deciding, or undertaking to decide, or even trying to influence the internal power structure" of another country, he told his biographer, Gordon M. Goldstein.
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As for his difficulties with mortgage payments and ill-advised property dealings, which some have used against him: Mr Rubio adduces them, like his student debt and rueful talk of post-dating cheques in pinched times, as yet more evidence that he alone can "talk to people who are living the way I grew up".
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The process of dealing with wave upon wave of producers, directors, agents, stars and other Hollywood field workers led Goldman to some rueful, hard-won and caustic conclusions about the film business, one of which he famously summed up in "Adventures in the Screen Trade" (1983), one of a handful of wise, juicy, insider accounts of show business.
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Many of the most influential officials, organizations and donors in the party remain torn between their concern about Mr. Sanders's chances in the general election, their fear of antagonizing his supporters, and their belated and often-rueful recognition that he has assembled a political movement with appeal well beyond the youthful, left-wing base he built in 2016.
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"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Stevie Nicks (1981) The song is officially credited to Nicks' first post-Fleetwood Mac solo opus, Bella Donna, but their rueful duet is a stone-cold classic of early-'80s AOR rock: the wary, full-throated pas de deux of two lovers with way too much water under the bridge for easy goodbyes. 7.
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No longer can Javad Zarif, the foreign minister, enjoy a rueful understanding among his international peers when sneering at the White House's "B-Team" -- a term he coined to highlight the links between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, national security advisor John Bolton, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, when it comes to policy on Iran.
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Immigrant advocacy groups denounced the policy, berating senior administration officials — some of whom were reduced to rueful apologies for a policy they said they could not justify — and telling Mr. Obama to his face during a meeting at the White House in late 2014 that he was turning his back on the most vulnerable people seeking refuge in the United States.
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"I lost," a rueful Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiOn The Money — Presented by Wells Fargo — Trump signs first phase of US-China trade deal | Senate to vote Thursday on Canada, Mexico deal | IRS provides relief for those with discharged student loans House delivers impeachment articles to Senate Senate begins preparations for Trump trial MORE was quoted as saying after the deal was done.
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But Lights can also stand as Fisher's tender, touching, typically rueful goodbye-to-all-that, a summing up of her life both at the heart of and somewhat off to the margins of a classic celebrity narrative that includes her famously difficult relationship with Reynolds, her own dramatic highs and lows and the headline-rocking divorce that stamped her childhood and deprived her of her father, the late Eddie Fisher.
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Indeed, Metcalf, a performer whose verve I was excited about in last season's "A Doll's House, Part 2," relies so much on the tics she developed thirty years ago for the sitcom "Roseanne"—nonchalance, a certain rueful distance—that she actually helps Mantello steer the play away from its deeper implications, which have to do with how we forgive those who made us, even if what they made was a target at which to aim their life's disappointment.
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The story of three self-proclaimed "old bags" who run off to a Greek island for a year in order to unshackle the reins of family and lovers, the beautifully paced "The Last Laugh" is narrated by Ruth, a rueful detective novelist who will chronicle these friends' sojourn in a weekly magazine column called "Granny à Go Go." Ruth's two compatriots are her half sister, Bess, a generous, unambitious world traveler devoted to romance and shopping and overeating; and Dania, a snobby, braggadocious Israeli-American psychotherapist who harbors a sinister secret and talks like Google Translate.
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