Word: ruefulness
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...voice, the whole wild farrago ("Look, look, the dusk is growing! My branches lofty are taking root. And my cold cher's gone ashley. Fieluhr? Filou! What age is at? It saon is late") pacifies into meanings felt if not altogether known. The passage is a rueful promise of what might have been if Joyce had lived to read the whole of his titanic rune...
...Emperor who was particularly fond of cherries. When he discovered one day that the sparrows were eating his cherries, he decreed that all sparrows must be killed or driven away. But with the birds gone, the beetles abounded. They overran the orchards and devoured the crops. The Emperor, rueful of his error, ordered the sparrows back...
Sutherland tried to remain aloof from last week's uproar, but he could not resist one last rueful word: "I took up portrait painting by accident. Although this commission was interesting, I enormously regret I was asked to paint a national hero. People have their own conception of what a hero is like and too many things other than artistic are involved. I don't think, if I were asked again, that I would...
...game, conceding the offensive initiative to the chance of a dangerous interception. This tightly conceived and executed game eventually paid off for the Green, but had thing gone differently, the fourth quarter would have seen a burst of passes, and the post game press conference might have seen a rueful Tuss McLaughry, again vowing that his team should have passed more...
...must train yourself to sneer at American cameras and to make vague, rueful references to the Leica that fell overboard. The mention of domestic wines is enough to excuse you, pale-faced, from the supper table, and the hesitation of American girls to accompany you almost immediately to "a little hotel you know" sets your head wagging in good-humored amazement...