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Usage for rueful


On seeing the Aston Villa teamsheet at White Hart Lane on Monday night, it is a fair bet that a rueful look settled on the face of Gareth Bale. There, in black and white, were the names of Carlos Cuellar and Alan Hutton: two right ...

The Nebraska-born filmmaker Alexander Payne has made the male mid-life crisis the canvas on which he paints his wry, rueful, thoroughly human-scale dramedies, such as "About Schmidt" and "Sideways." In "The Descendants," Payne has made what may be his ...

WARWICK, RI — The Boxer sits alone with his thoughts, wearing a rueful half-smile as he gazes across the gym at a moving remembrance of who he once was. The Kid shuffles along 50 feet away, popping a heavy bag as if there's something ...

As the song-and-dance ladies who squire the song-and-dance men, Meredith Patterson and Jill Paice are pert, playful and — when the occasion calls for it – heart-tugging, as in Paice's rueful "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me." Note that Paice is ...

Director Alexandre Rockwell's film might have been better off dropping its rueful, sour-grapes satire on Hollywood altogether, as it just feels artificial and forced. By Mark Olsen Writer-director Alexandre Rockwell, maker of humane comedies like ...


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