ruefulness
Example Sentences
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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
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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