Still, it is with a rueful smile that Mr Gonzi quotes his Luxembourg counterpart, Jean-Claude Juncker: “Every finance minister knows what to do.
Most of us, I dare say, have spent a vacation or two at the beach rueful and distracted by something we've recently done, some conflict we've gotten ourselves involved in.
He made a very blank and rueful face when he saw Mr. Arthur seated upon a table.
"His rueful reflections were cut short by the arrival of a poor scholar who rived next door in Gourd Temple. His name was Jia Huas, his courtesy name Shifei, and his pen-name Yucun. "
He is by nature an optimistic man; his smile is rueful.
She’d once seen Lawrence hunched over some papers in their kitchen—he threw her a funny, rueful look—but she did not recall a season of Whoppers and strawberry shakes.
The best antidote to such romanticism is perhaps the rueful reflection of Robert E. Lee, a gallant Confederate general: "It is well that war is so terrible!"
He smiled at that, with a rueful curve of his lips, but his eyes were alight with an emotion she was afraid to identify.
It is last seen by its rueful owner, who omitted to use a wrist strap, describing a perfect parabola on its way to the depths.
The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh.
Reckless youth makes rueful age
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