Ruefully

Not one,” Hernández said ruefully.

Luis Castro ruefully slips on his jacket with the haunted air of a man who’s just been told to clear his desk.

Without Saddleback providing winter jobs, the town has seen some émigrés, and its workforce has dwindled (you may hear lifties at other Maine hills joke ruefully about being “Rangeley refugees”).

Miriam, who is from Meath, recalled ruefully the day of the twentieth anniversary, where accolades were heaped, rightfully so she said, on the centre, including by the CEO of the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) Rosemary Keogh.

Our dean might have chuckled ruefully at this—college administrators complain that research productivity among tenured faculty drops off significantly in the last decades of their career.

Still, he says a little ruefully as we chat in a meeting room in the offices of 3AW, “I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I’d gone there”.

At one point during the battering, Mrs May ruefully remarked to Conservative Remainer Anna Soubry that she barely seemed to have achieved one task that people claimed was 'impossible' before they were demanding she completed another one.

He adds ruefully, "Life is a war zone, in my viewpoint.

He sometimes alluded ruefully to his tendency to put on weight.

It portrays the team spirit of the expedition and the harsh Antarctic environment, but also includes critical scenes such as Scott regarding his broken down motors and ruefully remembering Nansen's advice to take only dogs.

Madame Armfeldt is surprised, ruefully noting that she rejected love for material wealth at Fredrika's age.