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
Schumer is pregnant with their first child, and also pregnant with an indistinct ruefulness.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 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
“Don’t I know it,” he said with a kind of happy ruefulness.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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