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ruefulness







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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

So that’s a writer who I look back on with some ruefulness.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2015

“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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