Word: rueful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will that renewal be more than cosmetic? DeLay's announcement, marking the rueful surrender of a warrior who once wielded such unquestioned power that no bill could reach the President's desk without his assent, touched off a furious scramble at the Capitol among ambitious members who want a leadership seat when the music stops on Feb. 2, the date set for internal House G.O.P. voting. The election falls two days after President George W. Bush's planned State of the Union address and could do as much to define the Republican Party at the start of the midterm election...
...After sophomore spring, I was kindly requested to vacate the premises,” says Eric ’06-’07, who requested to use a pseudonym for this story, with a rueful smile...
...wouldn't be hard to read all this as breast-baring confession, or at least rueful self-parody, except that it quickly veers into fiction. Bret (this is the fictional Bret) has managed to sire a son with an actress named Jayne Dennis, and when he flunks out of his umpteenth rehab he decides to save himself by marrying her, moving to Connecticut and becoming a regular suburban dad. But Bret brings his demons with him, both figuratively--he can't kick the sauce and he's haunted by his late alcoholic, rageoholic father--and literally: the Connecticut McMansion...
...mall would pay a man to come down from Ohio to do Lincoln. For years, people had been saying to Rubin, "Did anyone ever tell you you look like ..." So he approached Borror and asked what it took to become a Lincoln. "Within a year," Borror says with a rueful smile, "he had taken all the events I used to do in West Virginia...
...dark comedy Benefactors is the Broadway season's most acclaimed play. Wild Honey, Frayn's bold adaptation of the young Anton Chekhov's Platonov, packed the house at London's National Theater and is due in the U.S. this fall. And in March, Frayn's first film, a rueful comedy called Clockwise, opens in Lon don. Typical of Frayn, who has "always adored farce," his plot revolves around a social-climbing headmaster (John Cleese) who misses a train and frantically tries to catch...