Word: rueful
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...DEAL Bob Fosse's sinuous choreography and inspired staging of classic songs -- including a sardonic, syncopated chain-gang rendering of Ain't We Got Fun -- highlighted a witty, rueful and all too short-lived musical about bumbling burglars and reluctant romance in Depression-era Chicago...
...denied any involvement. Still, a few of his campaign advisers considered the rumor a political plus. A suggestion that the Vice President stands tall behind the "freedom fighters," they reasoned, might improve his standing with Republican hawks who doubt Bush's grit. An aide recalled this judgment with a rueful chuckle last week as Bush labored to free himself from one of Iranscam's many tentacles. With his presidential prospects damaged by the broader scandal, Bush had to plead ignorance of what two of his assistants were doing and at the same time deny they had done anything improper...
...Revolutionary War have no reason to keep in close touch with Civil warriors. But some 50,000 people, many of them women and children, may be involved in relighting the old campfires and refighting the old battles. Some spend thousands of dollars on their costumes and weapons, and a rueful joke among re-enactors is that their 18th or 19th century wardrobes are far more elaborate than their present-day clothes...
...that the death was murder by poison, then proves that the killing is linked to a point of law. The villain is dragged in from relative obscurity near the end, and the summing-up could be briefer. But the characters are portrayed with wickedly informed satire, and by the rueful conclusion, Murphy has exhibited more than enough potential to do for the legal world what the tongue-in-cheek Emma Lathen mysteries have done to demystify investment banking...
...view of collaborators in the murder of Jews. His central characters are the Kabbelskis, a family of politically active Belorussians who make common cause with the Germans in an effort to secure an autonomous homeland for their people. They are motivated less by anti-Semitism than by the rueful lessons of a millennium of conquests from east and west. Banding together with other helpless minorities seems to offer no chance of gaining power. But connivance may. Stanislaw Kabbelski, a local police chief and, later, minister in a provisional Belorussian Cabinet, conspires in the deaths of strangers, then acquaintances, then family...