Embodying ragtag park denizens, Mannes students meticulously captured Ashley's singsong, half-speaking style and his deadpan ruefulness.
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As Mr. Thornburgh said, with a hint of ruefulness, "It may be that voters get the final say."
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With a mix of ruefulness and amusement Ms. Daniel recalled the challenges of mounting her first show in Harlem, with 15 volunteers.
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"I thought, If I don't do it soon, it just won't be relevant anymore," she said, and laughed with what sounded like ruefulness.
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What you find in her writing, rather, is a certain ruefulness—an understanding that life is a crapshoot that's been rigged, but to whose advantage?
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It tends to be that if you're that kind of person, you're going to apply this to whatever decision you're making — often with regret and ruefulness.
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Best is when, with Mr. Petrenko's help, he can diffuse his voice to its uniquely haunting, smoky ruefulness; he is less fascinating when the role demands sheer power.
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But her general ruefulness and wry observations feel thin; the book is less a diary of someone's deepest thoughts, insecurities and secrets than a carefully curated Wikipedia entry.
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In the title role, the mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke sings with both warmth and a barely concealed backbone of steel, and projects ruefulness and the tiniest touch of humor.
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The dissonance in Moreland's songs lies not in their structure—there are no hard angles or jagged bits—but in the ruefulness in his voice and the stories he tells.
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Knowing what we do about America's capacity for forgiveness, or for willful forgetting, we can maybe allow, with some ruefulness, that the restoration of his body was more astonishing, after all.
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We don't remember things as they are; we remember them as they appear to us now, from the distance of years, with the gentleness and ruefulness that accompany the passage of time.
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In the closing moments of the news conference, too, Obama allowed himself a hint of ruefulness at an outcome that no one saw coming — and the election of a man who threatens to undo much of his legacy.
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Her wide eyes, which lend themselves so easily to bald astonishment or mania in her comedy, turn down one fraction of one degree at the outer corners when at rest, lending a suggestion of ruefulness to her neutral gaze.
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The movement is minimal but emotionally exact ("Our love affair / Was too hot not to cool down"), and describes a journey from mere ruefulness to actual regret, a small but significant emotional arc that requires a great singer to convey.
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Better still is Stewart, who, despite the girlish touches in her outfits (headband, white ankle socks with strappy sandals), reveals a woman veiled in ruefulness, and her final moments, in which Vonnie muses on paths both taken and spurned, are a lovely act of suspension, done without a word.
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Shaw's comment afterwards was famous for its ruefulness and it has often been quoted: "I puts the ball where I likes and he puts it where he likes".Rae, p.97. Shaw was a left-arm round arm fast bowler and took 642 first-class wickets at an average of 14.41 and a best performance of 9 for 86. WG Grace noted that he had a high-delivery that was sometimes difficult to play, and brought his arm from behind with a very quick action making it difficult to see.
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In 1972 Moffatt was narrator and one of the main performers in the revue Cowardy Custard at the Mermaid, a compilation of the words and music of Noël Coward, who was present at the premiere. Moffatt later played the playwright Garry Essendine in Coward's Present Laughter, another of his favourite roles. In The Bed Before Yesterday by Ben Travers (1975), Moffatt gave what The Times considered one of his subtlest performances as the hen-pecked husband opposite the sexually rampaging Joan Plowright. The Daily Telegraph commented that he made a touching theatrical virtue of both ruefulness and inadequacy. In The Play's The Thing (1979) an adaptation by P. G. Wodehouse of a play by Ferenc Molnar, (Greenwich, 1979) he played a monocled, acid-tongued theatre director.
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One of her pictures was selected a prize to the state, winning first place in National Art Week in 1940." Biographer Roger Hull has said of Fowler's move to Michigan, "Leaving Oregon in 1947 was a major step at a crucial moment in the cultural history of the United States, with World War II at an end and younger artists questioning the values of American Regionalism and realism." In another analysis, Hull wrote, Commenting in 1957, that "Her recent work, now on display at the Bush Museum, will no doubt surprise many of these admirers, both for the new aesthetic approaches and the new concepts that motivate this work", Carl Hall explored differences in her later woks that are "very contemporary in her concern for the abstract consequence", with "this atomic age the great impersonal forces at work in the universe have to be taken into account" and the "human frailty with which we confront them". Hall continued, Roger Hull reported she was aware of perplexing some of her viewers, and she "wrote with a note of ruefulness", that "The term 'abstract' causes many mortals to barricade the windows of their minds and reach for the aspirin.
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