ruefulness
Example Sentences
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But her general ruefulness and wry observations feel thin; the book is less a diary of someone’s deepest thoughts, insecurities and secrets than a carefully curated Wikipedia entry.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2020
Knowing what we do about America’s capacity for forgiveness, or for willful forgetting, we can maybe allow, with some ruefulness, that the restoration of his body was more astonishing, after all.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019
“They changed 95% of it,” Mr. Berney says without ruefulness.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2018
But in keeping with another gay literary tradition, there is an abiding sorrow, a ruefulness, underneath the histrionics.
From Washington Post • May 12, 2017
Constance lowered her hands and looked at Reynie with a mixture of ruefulness and irritation.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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