Word: rueful
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...with Snowe in the chandeliered reception room adjacent to the Senate chamber as she was racing from the Finance Committee's first drafting session for its health-care bill to a vote on the Senate floor and then to a luncheon with her Republican colleagues. She sounded almost rueful as she discussed a political environment in which her brand of bipartisan dealmaking sets her apart. "I understand politics plays a role in this process, but it should not be to the exclusion of our foremost obligation to the American people, which is to govern," she said. "You can't allow...
...already been given several pleasantly familiar Brownian treats. Langdon has already flashed us his trademark Mickey Mouse watch ("I wear it to remind me to slow down and take life less seriously"), and we've gotten a taste of his freakish memory, his crippling claustrophobia and his rueful skepticism. We've been reminded of Brown's taste for ritual violence - there's a touch of Thomas Harris about his writing. We've even been introduced to a lonely, violent fanatic with weird skin. His name is Mal'akh instead of Silas, and instead of being an albino he's covered...
...hotel. Here she meets the narrator, Steve, who is her neighbor in the adjacent room and is there for identical reasons. Steve is a struggling saxophonist who never managed to hit the big time; together, they get involved in a caper, which, for all its superficial childishness, shines a rueful light on two related kinds of failure. In "Malvern Hills," a young man, with ambitions of becoming an indie singer-songwriter, spends a summer at his sister's café in the Malvern Hills and meets a middle-aged Swiss couple whose lives portend an unpromising future of blighted dreams...
...historical tyranny of patriarchal norms and the tyrannical patriarchy of normative historicity. [Pause for knowing laughter.] We hope these four years have been not just enlightening but also joyful, invigorating, even--dare we say--as lusty as a May meadow. Because, baby, the party's over. [Pause for rueful laughter...
...evolution of the war, both on the ground and in Americans' hearts and minds. As the war drags on but recedes from the headlines, the political satires of the early years (like Embedded and the British screed The Madness of George Dubya) have been supplanted by more rueful--one might say resigned--plays, which shift the focus from macro to micro: the men and women who are actually doing the fighting...