Rueful

Fast forward to May and a lot of the players that had fans brimming with optimism are now the same ones that have rueful supporters shaking their head in dismay.

The result is rueful musing about human cultures and innate human nature.

In an industry that gave birth to rueful jokes about the writer’s status, Towne held prestige comparable to the actors and directors he worked with for a time.

The refrain, delivered in a tone of rueful reflection, underscored the distance between Iqbal’s ideals and the community’s reality, making the exchange all the more poignant.

A rueful roll of the eyes.

As he moves through the basement, knowing he is looking at most of these items for the last time, Hope looks a bit rueful.

In movies like The Squid and the Whale 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.

Palin gives a rueful smile.

Anderson’s big, warm vocals suffuse such deeply romantic idylls as the rueful, grandly melodramatic “Call It What It Is” and the inescapably heartbreaking potential hit “Love You Most” with an intuitive, empathetic grace.

Brayden gave her a rueful smile.

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.

He goes on to write that "this somber, less-is-more approach could be effective were the ensemble plugged into the same rueful sensibility.

In what some interpret as rueful self-reproach, some Presbyterians refer to the divided Presbyterian churches as the "Split P's".