" Sale ruefully replied, "I hope you are right, too.
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" He laughed, and said, ruefully, "That does sound funny.
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"Fewer women want a natural birth today," she says ruefully.
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No one has noted this inversion more ruefully than Atwood.
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He now speaks a bit ruefully of those heady days.
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Voters watch ruefully with a mix of fascination and contempt.
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If only they knew the real him, I thought ruefully.
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"It was much more active last time," he says ruefully.
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You can see him choosing, however ruefully, the wrong path.
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"And probably viewers won't even notice," Ms. Claire said ruefully.
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"The skater kids will be here soon," he added ruefully.
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"I feel like it's sunnier over there," she said ruefully.
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" He added, a bit ruefully, "Set you up for failure.
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"Not all of me was there today," Shapovalov said ruefully.
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"I'm still waiting to get one signed," he says ruefully.
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"They didn't choose me in the first round," he said, ruefully.
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"He probably saw this as a treason," Mr. Büsser said ruefully.
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Considering those possibilities forces them to ruefully re-examine their marriage.
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"There is nothing of obvious historic value," says Ms Plant ruefully.
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But, as many ruefully pointed out, that's where the comparison ends.
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"I lashed out at Vince," Angle ruefully says at one point.
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"I got this box and an oil lamp," he said ruefully.
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"Even that wasn't being done by a Kenyan," he said ruefully.
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"Shattered" promises chapter and verse on that, and it ruefully delivers.
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"I couldn't physically put any more in me," he said ruefully.
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"We were the inventors and the innovators," Paul told me, ruefully.
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"Tiger, you got me," Els said ruefully during the trophy presentation.
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"I guess he didn't want me to pass him," Bowyer said ruefully.
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"I ask myself: Where is everybody going?" she says, and smiles ruefully.
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Most of her time is spent counting various objects, including, ruefully, books.
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"Jewelry was not supposed to be a business," she said, smiling ruefully.
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As did men: the board, Mr Harding ruefully notes, never included women.
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"The Kardashians have made it famous," Mr. Darnell said, a bit ruefully.
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" He ruefully shook his head and added: "Oh, they will, they will.
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It begins, ruefully: America the beautiful, or so you used to be.
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"I tell you, it's the best show in town," Lapine said, ruefully.
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"Bet that one comes back for the fall," one Balderson ally said ruefully.
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And she ruefully warned that the run-up to November's election could bumpy.
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"That courtside seat is limited by the laws of physics," says Mohan ruefully.
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Weiner opens before the second scandal, with Weiner ruefully acknowledging the first one.
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"I wasn't brought up," he once said ruefully, apropos of his artistic background.
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"This is, for me, politics," she said, smiling ruefully and shaking her head.
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" Still, he said ruefully, "I'm thinking about flying the old flag upside-down.
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He ruefully noted that people change jobs more frequently than he changes projects.
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They then ruefully admitted that their PA wasn't real, it was a bot.
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A little ruefully, Gary says, "When we go, what will be here instead?"
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"I wasn't allowed to talk shop," the narrator ruefully admits in one story.
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The Hanoi Hilton, a ruefully nicknamed prison, is the city's main tourist site.
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"How many did you lose?" someone asks ruefully, producing an exchange of stories.
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"She picked something I just paid for and drove her to," Holofcener said ruefully.
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Mr. Medrano smiled ruefully over at Fernanda, who had said nothing during the hearing.
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" Then she added, a bit ruefully, "My dissertation reads sort of like a playbook.
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That means two more years of those high-five-figure taxes, he said ruefully.
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He was left scratching his head as we both stood ruefully on the dock.
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"I think my team wants me to step down, honestly," he said, smiling ruefully.
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"They feel that beauty is a beast," the architect B.R. Ajit told me ruefully.
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"All one could do was laugh," one professional pianist in the audience commented ruefully afterwards.
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"I was trying to do a comprehensive database, which was totally utopian," he says, ruefully.
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"This is what happens when people are too close," one of the protagonists ruefully states.
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Yes." Another LNC member, alluding to Johnson's admitted marijuana use, grumbled ruefully: "Pot-smoking goofball.
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Ms. Tomes writes a fluent and immensely readable chronology, minutely referenced, instructive and ruefully entertaining.
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" The ever-popular Monfils could only congratulate his conqueror and note ruefully: "Well done, Novak.
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"I really thought that the first set should have gone my way," he ruefully reflected.
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Yet May could be forgiven for reflecting ruefully on the disastrous year she has had.
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Remarkably, though, the tone of the singer remains less shocked or shocking, more ruefully contemplative.
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"I don't like wearing white," she said, smiling ruefully about the club's strict dress code.
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"I wanted to study physics and go into the nuclear defense lab," he said ruefully.
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"'Now it's time for us to move to New Zealand,'" Justice Ginsburg said, smiling ruefully.
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"We've had people get up and leave halfway through the meal," Mr. Cantu said ruefully.
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But his execution was far from perfect, the 21-year-old said a touch ruefully.
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At one point, Weinraub spoke ruefully of how Hood By Air was perceived by outsiders.
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" That's why some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as "the propaganda document.
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Then again, as she ruefully acknowledged, Connecticut has had more time to prepare for her Gamecocks.
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Lewis and Hathaway look on ruefully as murderers make what appear to be totally unnecessary confessions.
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Hart ruefully recalled reporters having "a cool and aloof key" on their Radio Shack TRS-80s.
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Hens recalls ruefully that she did not try to shield her sons from their brutal father.
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Bro lost his footing, dropped to a padded surface, grinned ruefully and prepared to try again.
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"Boy, are you tough," Vice President Mike Pence ruefully said to Collins before the final vote.
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"She dated Joe all through high school and college and then dumped him," she said ruefully.
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As he ruefully awaits that ignoble distinction, Trump isn't showing any signs of regret or retreat.
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"No, no," Byrne answered ruefully, when asked if he had ever actually seen a Yeti or Bigfoot.
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"She got a T-shirt moment out of it," one official said ruefully, but no sustainable traction.
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"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people," he ruefully reflected.
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His handicap has been as low as 2.3 — "not back there yet," he said, a little ruefully.
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She smiles ruefully at the fact that so many of her neighbours still think the virus mythical.
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Once he realizes his mistake he slams on the breaks, ruefully putting his head in his hands.
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"2018 was a great year that finished on a disappointing note," Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman said ruefully.
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Winston Churchill said ruefully that he "preferred the past to the present and the present to the future".
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"We had a really great Equal Rights Amendment story that we'd broken for this season," Fields said, ruefully.
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As another Obama administration official ruefully observed, talking to the Kim family is like going to Taco Bell.
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Mr. Doyle is on hand to reflect, tactfully and ruefully, on the ups and downs of their relationship.
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Ruefully I scuffed the spilled earth and pebbles with my shoe and thought of Poussin— Was it Poussin?
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Mr. Bee smiled — a bit wistfully, a bit ruefully — as he finished telling the tale of 433 Broadway.
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"It was like she had a megaphone and I was whispering," Mr. Ashton said ruefully in an interview.
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"We're commonly referred to as the Evil Empire," Allison Reiter Kambic, one of Miles's daughters, told me ruefully.
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This suggests, as an opposition leader ruefully acknowledged recently, that the new president has won the first round.
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"Anything can happen in a village," Adrian says ruefully, as matters seem to be coming to a head.
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But veteran investigators ruefully joke that often the only penalty for stealing is having to return the money.
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" He jumped on the blockchain bandwagon early, although he notes, just a tad ruefully, "I wish I bought more.
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"Ford v Ferrari is probably the last film ever made by 20th Century Fox," Sylvester said, a little ruefully.
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" As a Clinton ally ruefully notes, "The last 15 years, everyone had forgotten about that, and now it's back.
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"The effort is focused on Canada because we have the reputation as the world's boy scouts," says Mr Pourbaix ruefully.
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Another Republican strategist, asked about the repercussions of the Senate race, laughed ruefully but declined to be quoted by name.
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One Brussels-based lobbyist notes ruefully that in 2008 industrial firms tried to stop the commission from regulating so much.
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" Vander Plaats added, a little ruefully, of Trump: "I believe his poll numbers would rise if he would walk humbly.
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We will ruefully curse the institutionalized classism, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, and racism we ourselves taught our decision-making, thinking machines.
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It's a ruefully, comically sentimental piece that plucks a fleeting connective poetry in the seeming randomness of what we hoard.
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He ruefully calculated that "one day in 30" of his adult life had been consumed by "arduous and worrying" campaigning.
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Reflecting on his more than five years at Nest, that former employees laughs ruefully: "It was like a soap opera."
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Next week's news will be dominated by coverage of funerals in Pittsburgh, and we will all shake our heads ruefully.
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"This is Eighty-fifth and Columbus," he said, before adding, ruefully, that the hive in question is no longer there.
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I'd watch for some Democratic ads that cut together Trump's outrageous statements with video of Pence ruefully shaking his head.
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Others ruefully described spending months crafting cities on their own multiplayer servers, only to have a server crash and destroy everything.
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We sure messed that up, Eli ruefully observes as the uneasy antiheroes of "The Sisters Brothers" are swallowed up by darkness.
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"I thought we needed a big change, and boy, did we get it," she said ruefully outside an I.G.A. market recently.
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Asked if he saw anything positive that may help the Rays in a rematch next week, Manager Kevin Cash laughed ruefully.
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Attending to the beam in their own eye before turning to motes elsewhere, plenty of Democrats have ruefully urged him to resign.
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And like all of us, the gentleman smiles ruefully as he attends a friend's wedding that got married on the device's app.
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"I don't think anyone could have made Mark Zuckerberg look sympathetic other than the United States Congress," he said, a bit ruefully.
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" Jefferson ruefully lamented that "the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
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Their black female friend, on the other hand, owes only $51, since her demographic is so ruefully underpaid on a systematic level.
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It's the times we're living in that make CHARLATANS ruefully relevant and it makes a wonderful insult, really rolls off the tongue.
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"I made a mistake on pit road speeding again here at Pocono," Wallace said ruefully after steering his car to the garage.
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Economists who were embroiled in that episode, and those who recall it ruefully, view it as a cautionary tale for Mr. Trump.
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" He paused and added ruefully, "I've learned this—it's my little bit of wisdom: a pop star's career lasts about eighteen months.
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"I loved for people to think of me as a genius who gambled ever more carelessly with his life," the musician ruefully muses.
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"Waste" is a word that he uses ruefully and frequently, as befits a man who lives in irrational fear of the poor house.
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Then, ruefully, he mused that in the future, theater might just consist of actors on a stage, staring at a sea of screens.
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Gardner mourns the fact that few know he exists and ruefully watches the copy of "Wings of Desire" a German scientist left behind.
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At the New Stanley Hotel, a Catholic and a Lutheran might kick back over kebabs and ruefully joke about enabling this sad conflict.
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She ruefully dismissed Thursday's defeat as no drama, and the sunny, relaxed demeanour that has won her legions of fans was still in evidence.
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In one section, he ruefully inspects an adapter cable, which enables iPhone users to turn their charging portal into a 3.5 mm headphone jack.
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"I would somehow find a way to ease into expressing an opinion and still be 'ladylike,' thus avoiding being a 'bitch,' " she says ruefully.
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" This time, Mr. Krasnik wrote ruefully, what has come to define Danish immigration politics today is the phrase "I decide who is a Dane.
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She was the only woman nominated as a director of any show this year, a fact that she noted ruefully during her acceptance speech.
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"History repeats itself," Islam Lotfy, a leader of the Egyptian uprising of 753 who is now living in forced exile in London, said ruefully.
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" MICHAEL COOPER Sometimes, when puzzling over the question of why opera isn't more popular, I ruefully remind myself of this scene from Strauss's "Elektra.
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ORANGEBURG, S.C. — When Pete Buttigieg holds "big rally type events" in South Carolina, "it's mostly white folks showing up," he acknowledged ruefully Thursday night.
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"There are more reports like that than we care to see," Colin Woodall, the N.C.B.A.'s senior vice-president of government affairs, said ruefully.
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" — JIMMY FALLON On "Conan," John Lithgow ruefully recalled the meeting where he talked Tim Burton out of casting him as the Joker in "Batman.
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The audience for this stuff was largely male—Bruford writes ruefully that, throughout his career, women "generally and rather stubbornly stayed away" from his performances.
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A sign of real career progress for Chicago theater folk, she added ruefully, is when they can cut back from two day jobs to one.
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There was a lot of fun in the cluing today — I loved the ones for BAT, BEE, AVATAR, ROTTED, INNIE and TOMORROW (ruefully), among others.
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Standing ovations were granted to Ben Cline of Virginia, who snatched the first pick, and Mark E. Green of Tennessee, who ruefully took the last.
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She soothed her nerves with larger quantities of alcohol, fretted about losing her looks, ruefully accepted that she would never have children of her own.
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I started with the sort of ruefully amused voice of Griffin, and the predicament he finds himself in, in the aftermath of a difficult divorce.
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And he has yet to unravel President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for the so-called Dreamers, as Mr. Krikorian ruefully noted.
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"The one time I do it," Mr. Ross said ruefully, his letter arrived in the woman's unit just before Ms. Wilson was returned to jail.
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It turns out the man isn't the rapist, but Mildred and Dixon, reasoning that he clearly raped somebody, set out somewhat ruefully to kill him anyhow.
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"Actually I think I had a chance to win or (be) close to the medals," Ratchanok told Reuters ruefully in an interview in Sydney on Tuesday.
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While Ms. Striar ruefully acknowledges that the artist pay is low — Summerworks participants, both cast and crew members, get $1,500 apiece — she's aiming to do better.
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"Maybe we started as the favorite but often the favorites don't come to the finish with the medal or with the good run," he said ruefully.
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The shy teenager, who often touched his mother's hand or put an arm around her, grinned ruefully when Tatiana urged him to go back to school.
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"Now I live ten minutes away from where I grew up," he said, somewhat ruefully, in one of many amusing self-disclosures that punctuate the show.
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"Maybe we started as the favourite but often the favourites don't come to the finish with the medal or with the good run," he said ruefully.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's vessel Okeanos Explorer is dedicated to oceanic exploration—ruefully, it's the United States' only federally-funded vessel with this express purpose.
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Janet remains thoroughly supportive of her husband's work even as she ruefully confides in a friend that she married him because she wanted a stable life.
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I picked it up and gave it to her, then thought how foolish I had been, but she thanked me and smiled ruefully, understanding the ambivalence.
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Yet the reader has to concede, perhaps ruefully, that bewilderment on his part must be his own problem, for the poems have an air of sovereign intelligence.
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"It's a bit chilly and detached in mood — I like to imagine a melancholy scene," Vanotti said ruefully, as Clean began to squirm and lick his face.
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Long after this May-December romance implodes, Paul looks ruefully back on their time together, and the reverberating effects this love affair has had on his life.
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In the season finale, she imagines, ruefully, a moment when she and her mother could tell each other all their secrets, maybe even have a slumber party.
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"It's like being married to the company," admits one technician at Schlumberger, ruefully swigging a chilled beer while curfewed in a hotel until his next grueling day begins.
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"Yeah, my coworker was a Nazi," Sam comments ruefully, recalling the man's massive "Skinhead" chest tattoo and aborted plan to cause mayhem during President Obama's visit in 2009.
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"I was a woman of my word," she laughed ruefully, indicating the next eight years, in which she starred with Tony Danza in "Who's the Boss" for ABC.
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News had hardly spread when exasperated Democrats and donors were ruefully dredging up painful memories of the seemingly constant tug of congressional investigations on Bill Clinton's White House.
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He pointed me toward publicly available details of the case I had ruefully never known of, which made me begin to feel the evidence strongly supported your story.
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Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, ruefully told a privacy conference last October that platforms and algorithms, which many hoped would enlarge the best in humanity, had liberated the worst.
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"It doesn't get much worse than being locked up in a psychiatric ward," I remember telling my sponsor ruefully, shaking like a tambourine not long after embarking on recovery.
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"And I never felt ready," Ms. Stemme said, a bit ruefully, of passing up that chance at the part, and at studying it with one of its classic exponents.
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"I had the chances today, but I didn't take them," Svitolina said ruefully as she rested her cheek on her right hand, which has "carpe diem" tattooed on it.
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As he surveys the 187-acre farm he has tended for more than 35 years, he also suggests a latter-day Prospero ruefully aware that his powers are waning.
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He is ruefully funny about the lengths to which strip club bouncers would go, in New Orleans, to keep a black man out while maintaining a veneer of politeness.
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When I made a second visit there and hiked through the forest with Brown and Faerthen Felix, he gestured ruefully as we passed through an area that seemed reasonably uncluttered.
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The bill's initial failure proved humiliating for the President and House Speaker Paul Ryan, who ruefully declared that Obamacare would remain "the law of the land" for the foreseeable future.
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It sounds like a scenario ripped straight out of the early 2000s, when Lou Perlman's manicured, manufactured boy bands ruled the earth, and Laura looks back at the time ruefully.
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"The materials are what they are, and it's now left to senators to reach their conclusions," the Democrat, Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, told reporters ruefully earlier in the day.
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But, much like the stage adaptation of "Fun Home," in which the lesbian cartoonist Alison Bechdel looks back ruefully at her Pennsylvania girlhood, "Passing Strange" took its strength from specificity.
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For years, many Latin Americans ruefully accepted corruption to be as inevitable as voting itself, as officials from the presidential palace to the mayor's office enriched themselves from public coffers.
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Tom Lembong, Indonesia's investment chief, notes ruefully that Vietnam's exports, excluding oil and gas, exceeded those of Indonesia for the first time last year—even though its economy is much smaller.
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And, after writing this memoir, I am able to proudly admit that I inherited many of my mother's best qualities and ruefully confess that I also inherited many of her worst.
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"He pointed me toward publicly available details of the case I had ruefully never known of, which made me begin to feel the evidence strongly supported your story," she told Dylan.
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At the C.I.A., top officials ruefully remembered the treatment of Brian J. Kelly, an agency officer who in the 1990s was wrongly suspected by the F.B.I. of being a Russian spy.
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When I ask her about Trump's get-tough stance on China and the upsurge in anti-foreign sentiment in the United States, she ruefully acknowledges that both are affecting her work.
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Only now do we ruefully understand he was apparently referring to his one-man-in-charge Trump enterprise and not the well-run American companies viewed as exemplars of sound management.
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They are awkwardly thanked by strangers for their service — which, as Mr. Junger ruefully observes, only highlights the schism between the few who have served and the great many who have not.
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Still, as he ruefully acknowledged, Bernstein will probably always be best known for a particular part of his musicianship: as a conductor, certainly the most influential American maestro of the 20th century.
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He shakes his head ruefully and says that was absolutely not true and that many stories about his relationships are "completely wrong," but that he doesn't like to fight back in public.
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" Even Mr. Carter himself has admitted, ruefully, "I could've been re-elected if I'd taken military action against Iran, shown that I was strong and resolute and, um, manly and so forth.
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Mr. Schneider's SS uniform is stuffed in a garbage bag in his attic and he speaks ruefully about his time with the National Socialist Movement, generally considered America's largest neo-Nazi group.
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We're themeless today, as usual on a Saturday, but the short stack in the middle of the grid made me laugh, if a bit ruefully, as I mentally joined the four entries.
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The December 22 letter from Connecticut officials warning them that CHIP coverage could end without congressional action — "Merry Christmas," Nicole said ruefully — was the first she had heard about the funding lapse.
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Damage control, certainly, for the leaders of other NATO nations who must now examine ruefully the splintered remains of the carefully constructed doghouse where they'd managed to enshrine Putin since his Crimean adventure.
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Such a state, both misty and ruefully clear, shimmers like a bright fog in the small, venerable Minetta Lane Theater, where "Patti Smith: Words and Music" opened on Saturday night for three performances.
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It has also landed him in court, where he faces an eight-month suspended sentence, partly because of a profile I wrote about him in The Times in October, as he ruefully acknowledges.
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My favorite answer the movie gives to that question: ruefully sing the lyrics they'd made up to "Hail to the Chief," since they had to hear it every time they entered a room.
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Her waterfall poem, "Counting Backward", ruefully reflects that the medics of Bristol (the city in the west of England where she lived for four decades) had come to take their indoor cataract for granted.
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In the center of town, wearing just one flip-flop, Mr. Cenel, the magistrate, smiled ruefully at the town's misfortune and his own, estimating that hundreds have died between the hurricane and the disease.
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The February French parliamentary report ruefully acknowledged, without citing a specific assault, systematic "gaps in the transmission of information, which, if they had been realized in time, could have forestalled the attack" in Paris.
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Shriver's long frame sank to the court in injury-preventive stages, landing on her back before she rose to smile ruefully and take a deep breath with her hands on her hips, racket dangling.
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"I think the Warren-Pete fight in Iowa is probably going to hurt them in the way that Dean-Gephardt 'murder-suicide pact' did," Joe Trippi, a top strategist on Dean's campaign, said ruefully.
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Sanders: 'You can't win them all' Sanders ruefully conceded defeat, but with a favorable slate of races looming on Tuesday he appears well placed to advance his "revolution" that threatens to overtake the Democratic Party.
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Radha expresses herself in a lexicon of gestures — she indicates Krishna's sleep-heavy eyelids, for example — but it is her larger poignancy, so quietly and ruefully conveyed, that makes a deeper impression than any specific.
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"It has a little bit of everything," Ms. Kee said ruefully, but she hopes that the apartment, which has been on the market since April, will eventually appeal to a buyer looking for rental income.
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You know the kid could pull off an A, but you shake your head and write "not working up to potential" at the top of his report before ruefully marking it with a big, red C.
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Defenders of the president also noted ruefully on Friday that only eight days had elapsed since Republicans in the House had passed legislation aimed at dismantling and replacing the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.
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The less hard-line figures in Trump World note ruefully that the president turned away from an immigration deal in February 2018 that looks, in retrospect, much better than anything he is likely to get now.
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On the opera stage and in recital, she gave the premieres of dozens of works by 19563th-century composers — "more first, and last, performances than any singer in history," as she was fond of saying, ruefully.
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Tense conversations unfold during a literal tumultuous storm; despondent royals cap off low moments by staring ruefully into mirrors; pointed flashbacks spell out familial discontent so starkly they might as well be skywriting subtext into text.
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The movie doesn't get sappy about that realization — this is no redemption story — but by being just a little hyperbolic in its premise, the movie gives us enough remove to ruefully recognize ourselves in its story.
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Mr. Trump is not just historically unpopular; he is also central to voter perceptions of the Republican Party — a lesson Republicans ruefully learned in the electoral wipeouts they suffered in Virginia and New Jersey last November.
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The 19783-year-old Queenslander beat a hasty retreat from Rod Laver Arena after losing her first Melbourne semi-final 7-6(6) 7-5, shaking her head ruefully as she walked down the player's tunnel.
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Many learned economists and policy experts ruefully acknowledge that the president's intuition is broadly right: While labeling China a currency manipulator now would look ridiculous, the United States should have done it a long time ago.
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Trump on the campaign trail vowed to revitalize the prison, which supporters ruefully say has become a geriatric facility for aging terrorists — alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been held there since 2006, for example.
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Veteran counterterrorism agents ruefully note that the difference between America's latest school shooting and its latest terrorist attack is whether the gunman praised the Islamic State — regardless of whether he had any actual ties to the group.
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When they hear conservatives describe as a "socialist" Barack Obama—a man who, in their view, had failed to help the real victims of the financial crisis, while bailing out the banks—they tend to laugh ruefully.
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Democrats ruefully acknowledge now that before the 2010 census, riding high after Mr. Obama's 2008 victory and seemingly secure in their hold on Congress, they were far less prepared than Republicans in gearing up for legislative reapportionment.
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Though Peter, the boy who would not grow up, might object, I'd argue that it's a more adult work, ruefully aware that if children don't grow up, it's not because they've been spirited away to some enchanted isle.
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" More interesting today may be Montesquiou's role as a model for the Baron de Charlus in "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu," which was so widely noticed that Montesquiou said ruefully, "I ought to start calling myself Montesproust.
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He sold ads to bars and breweries and catered more and more to a certain archetypal Boston bro — the type who puts on a collared shirt to get blackout drunk every weekend while ruefully cheering on the Red Sox.
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"I just want to see you up and out, out of the door," Ms. Zutrau pleads ruefully on the breakup tune "Don't Wanna Be Your Girl," as if, while singing the words, she too were processing that it's finally over.
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I also suggest "The Magic Barrel," Bernard Malamud's collection of ruefully funny short stories; Graham Greene's tragic Catholic romance, "The End of the Affair"; and "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," Thomas Hardy's tortuous 19th-century novel that wrestles with faith and fate.
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Speaking now, Netanyahu says that "Obama came from another direction, one that adopted most of the Palestinian narrative," and ruefully cites the "not a single brick" line to argue that the American president was against him from the very beginning.
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At one point, somewhat ruefully and tenderly, he describes Espinoza's feelings for Norton, which he sees as a mirror to his own: First, the need to be near Liz Norton struck sometime before he got back to his apartment in Madrid.
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There's a story black people ruefully tell of the day they knew integration was coming to a black high school in Charlotte, N.C.: A crew of workers arrived to fix up the facilities because now white children would be attending.
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There's a story black people ruefully tell of the day they knew integration was coming to a black high school in Charlotte, N.C.: A crew of workers arrived to fix up the facilities because now white children would be attending.
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The vast majority of people I talk to reply ruefully: "It's fine, but..." Those "buts" end up constituting a range of complaints: the screen isn't on when I want it to be, the battery life sucks, the apps are pointless, it cost too much.
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If you lived through even a part of it, you'll be swimming merrily alongside her in memories — although, as Ms. Burns ruefully recalls, many of those wild, unforgettable nights may have been fogged to the point of obscurity by the ingestion of illicit substances.
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As I was leaving Linde's office at Stanford, after we'd spent a day riffing on the nature of God, the cosmos and baby universes, he pointed at my notes and commented ruefully: 'If you want to have my reputation destroyed, I guess you have enough material.
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Obama, in the first event overseas linked to his new global foundation, and his host, beseeched young people not to give up on the idea that politics could forge meaningful change, though both ruefully reflected that campaign trail promises often were not fully realized once in power.
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And I don't mean those who ruefully accept the idea out of religious allegiance, or whose sense of justice demands that Hitler and Pol Pot get their proper comeuppance, or who think they need the prospect of hell to keep themselves on the straight and narrow.
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It was in that city that Ophüls achieved early success as a theatrical director, and "Letter From an Unknown Woman" has a number of authentic, perhaps ruefully nostalgic touches, including a glassed-in wine garden where an all-female orchestra wearily plays for the entranced lovers.
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" There's also a moment in a future episode in which Shapiro tries to employ strong-arm tactics on another Simpson teammate that challenges the boundaries between leverage and blackmail, which Travolta calls, both ruefully and somewhat fondly, "the most despicable moment I've ever had in my career in acting.
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Indeed, the rebellion in the SPD—members are also demanding a vote on the new leader—might turn out to be a down-payment on a new, less stifled era: "We've debated more in the past month than we did in the preceding four years", observes one insider ruefully.
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A few months ago, my boyfriend, who does not have Instagram (and somewhat ruefully agreed to let me post photos of him if I really want to, so I never do), told me that every time I pick up my phone, the first thing I do is open Instagram.
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One woman I talked to, a television writer who has worked on seven shows—and who remarked ruefully that three of her former bosses have recently been implicated in sexual misconduct—told me that a colleague cautioned her on the first day of her first job, at Warner Bros.
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We often talk ruefully about how the U.S. judicial system will "put the victim on trial" in sexual assault cases—about how someone who has experienced abuse shouldn't have to bear the burden of proof, or be questioned about their role in the crime, and yet they often are.
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"It's as if taking a photo of a work in a museum means 'seeing' it to a viewer, even though someone like me worries that taking the photo replaces seeing it in the slow and thoughtful way I would ideally wish," Ms. Temkin ruefully concedes at the bustling museum.
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Headlined by the light heavyweight title fight between Daniel Cormier and knockout artist Anthony Johnson, an Upstate New York native in Jon Jones will be ruefully watching on from the sidelines as his rivals, namely Cormier, battle it out for the gold he had stripped from him by the UFC.
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He said ruefully this week that he should have done tax reform first when it became clear that the quick-hit health care victory he had hoped for was not going to materialize on Thursday, the seventh anniversary of the act's passage, when the legislation was scheduled for a vote.
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In less than a month, Franken went from a formidable 22009 presidential prospect to the brink of unemployment, a would-be liberal lion cast out into an early winter, even, as Franken pointed out ruefully on Thursday, Republicans accused of worse sit in the Oval Office and, perhaps soon, among his Senate colleagues.
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But for the first time in forever, the eternal "country of tomorrow," as Brazilians often ruefully described their nation, saw itself instead as a rampant member of the emerging cohort of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) — maybe even closer than China to making the jump into the ranks of the world's richest nations.
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I had never been important enough to merit his attacks, so I knew him only as a secret handshake: To be attacked by him was to join the club of writers who, for the sin of having done their job, had received one of his sputtering insults, which they circulated by email or recounted ruefully at parties.
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In her campaign to change how Hollywood — and the broader American culture — treats women, she has ruefully recalled how many men of her generation have told her that their favorite performance was her turn as Linda, the docile checkout girl from "The Deer Hunter," according to a new biography, "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep," by Michael Schulman.
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The de-Stalinization of Soviet Russia took place in two stages: first, from 1953 to the early sixties, "The Thaw" of Nikita Khrushchev; then the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, who—from 1985 until Christmas night of 1991, when he ruefully announced the disintegration of the Soviet Union—took on the gargantuan and, ultimately, self-immolating task of democratizing a Communist empire.
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Every time I observe a woman gliding agreeably through life like a stewardess on an endless flight, modestly dressed and smiling ruefully to deflect any presumption that her existence is anything other than morally and aesthetically impeccable, I'm reminded of the enormous pressure placed on those of us who aren't men to construct an identity that falls within the limits of acceptable behavior.
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But that's not a great solution either, because they're tiny and easy to miss; even then they still manage to take up too much screen space when every pixel counts on a device of this size, and you'll find yourself staring ruefully at the P10's chunky top and bottom bezels wondering why Huawei didn't just put proper buttons there in the first place.
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As a result, it's far safer to operate within the prevailing consensus—to conform to the dictates of a pack that derives its conclusions from polls and fundraising data—than to say ruefully after a wrong call, "Well, I had this hunch...."
In theory, the 2016 campaign should have served as electroshock treatment—a violent dose of uncut reality that should have cured the press pack of its certainties about anything.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report The Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters MORE (D-Calif.) and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright — nodded ruefully as Feinstein, standing in the doorway of a family room at the Georgetown home of major Democratic donor Elizabeth Bagley, made the remark, according to two attendees.
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Though Carrère speaks ruefully of most of them — the autobiographical first novel that drew heavily if surreally on his French military-service experience in Indonesia where he taught old Chinese ladies to speak French and took every drug he could find; the second, which, set around the famous night in the summer of 280 when Mary Shelley came up with the Frankenstein story, he finds as overdone as the first; and the fourth, which he just says he doesn't like at all — two retain his affection: "The Mustache" (1986) and "Class Trip" (1995).
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