| When we last heard from them, they were waxing ruefully nostalgic about their chemically wasted youth. |
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| Darcy grew calm again, and to her infuriation Lizzy thought she saw him smile ruefully. |
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| Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan, the president ruefully noted after the Cuban fiasco. |
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| Last year, a rep of the phone company ruefully admitted it was stretching the truth. |
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| He sighed and ruefully gazed down the rocky mountainside to the glistening valley below. |
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| Louise ruefully confessed she rarely tunes in to watch television these days. |
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| Glass shards showered down on his cat that meowed ruefully at him and sulked away. |
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| Of course, he adds ruefully, it took him another eight months to get his head back together. |
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| Disaster theorists will ruefully note that it has little to do with global warming. |
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| Those stairs must have been a little more challenging than I thought, he ruefully admitted to himself. |
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| She fiddled with the plastic spoon that was stranded in her coffee cup and smiled ruefully. |
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| In a recent song, he ruefully concedes that his fans prefer the Shady persona. |
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| In his most famous stage work, he took a ruefully affectionate voyage around his father. |
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| With his talent for mangling meaning out of the simplest sentence, Mr Prescott ruefully admitted that he had grown used to misinterpretation. |
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| Obligation, she ruefully reflected, was a flimsy basis for creativity. |
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| Those who have crossed him describe the experience ruefully. |
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| We can all attest to the telemarketing industry, somewhat ruefully perhaps. |
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| The United Nations compound bombing and subsequent assassinations, Packer ruefully remarks, forced a change in his friends. |
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| Leadership must consist of more than the occasional good speech, as the British Conservatives may soon come ruefully to reflect. |
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| As Oscar Wilde said ruefully, people do not die from their debts but they do die from not being able to able to cope with them. |
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| And are those words about imagined and actual accomplishments said mockingly, ruefully, or amusedly? |
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| He ruefully acknowledged the difficulty of coming up with such an agreement. |
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| Perhaps that name should not be felt so ruefully today, despite the reversion to authoritarian control in Egypt. |
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| I finger-tipped the last crumbs of my wafer-thin slice of cake and put the plate down, ruefully, looking with some envy at Graham finishing the last of a huge man-sized chunk. |
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| It may have been said in jest, but a legion of Hollywood actresses would have nodded ruefully in unison. |
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| You can get out of any dull social event by explaining ruefully to your host that you'd love to stay but just happen to be suffering from a touch of eleutheromania and must be excused. |
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| Of the 12m illegal immigrants in the United States, more than half are Mexicans. As Mexicans have ruefully discovered, the two economies, not just the two peoples, are inextricably meshed. |
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| Jo Ball, 47, from Sunbury, south-west of London, wearing a straw hat with a union flag tied around the brim, was ruefully watching the screen – now showing an empty court – as her friend packed up their picnic things. |
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| We buy these plates and cups from the Park Slope co-op, said one popular Brooklyn hostess ruefully, that are eco-correct and dishwashable. |
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| Feeding little emperors Simplify and repeat ReprintsSurvivors of failed firms talk ruefully about what went wrong usually, overexpansion in one of two ways. |
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| Touching his hair, which he said has increasingly turned gray, Mizunaga added ruefully, ''I have become soured on the mayorship. |
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| Somewhere, a no-longer-in-the-league Tebow is ruefully nodding. |
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| Everybody laughed ruefully about how this was easier said than done. |
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| He pushed his straw hat back, scratched his head, and laughed ruefully. |
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