Word: rueful
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...entertainment, The Good Soup needs more sass and zest. But Soup, with the story it has to tell, need not only be as frothy as champagne, or as French as snails; it can also, and with rewards of its own, be as French as money. There is nothing girlishly rueful or gallantly raffish about Marie-Paule; though now and then touching, she is cynical and hard. "I don't forgive," she says, "even the ones who have done nothing to me." She was not ruined or misled; she was never sentimentally tempted or morally torn; the one time love...
...meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the U.S. has been reminding the governments of Western Europe's booming nations that, as part of their contribution to the strengthening of the free world, they should shell out some aid too. By last week, declared a rueful European government official, the U.S. drive had reached "the arm-twisting stage...
...nominal chores was to promote trade among "nations struggling for their national independence and freedom," but he signed only one concrete trade agreement, by which Ceylon promised that it would buy 20,000 tons of Cuban sugar within the next five months. In Havana a trade expert took rueful note that last year Ceylon bought 38,000 tons of sugar from Cuba...
Kings Must Please. Mademoiselle led a life of rueful anticlimax. In a setting where devious femininity was an accepted tactic, Mademoiselle was a blunt, soldierly Amazon famed for her huge nose. Obviously destined for a European throne, she rejected princes and kings who proposed to her or were proposed for her-Charles II of England, Alfonso VI of Portugal, Philip IV of Spain. With an annual income of nearly $1,000,000, she was the richest princess in Europe; yet the man who raided her fortune the most shamelessly was her own weak-spined father, the Duke of Orleans...
...happened, the lunch never came off. and De Vries, like a character in one of his novels (Comfort Me with Apples, The Mackerel Plaza. The Tunnel of Love), was left wistfully savoring the sour cream of the jest. This touch of rueful, pun-prone phantasmagoria has made 49-year-old Peter De Vries the leading comic geographer of commuterland. Humorist De Vries surveys his world with the wacky vision of a man who has inadvertently put on the wrong pair of glasses...