Word: ruefulness
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...toji, or sake brewmaster, a proud member of a dwindling breed. "In the olden days, the eldest sons of farmers made sake after the harvest," explains Doi, 63. Straight out of high school, he followed his father into his vocation. "But my son," he says with a rueful, gap-toothed smile, "he's a salaryman...
...icons. These unshaven, hollow-eyed, grimy World War II infantry dogfaces appeared in the pages of the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, fighting not just the Germans during the Italian campaign but also tedium, wet socks, lousy K rations and their commanding officers. G.I.s everywhere laughed, or nodded in rueful recognition. Mauldin combined the satiric eye and brush of a Daumier with the ear of a Ring Lardner. He captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled men: "I need a couple guys what don't owe me no money for a little routine patrol." His war works...
...impulse a couple of years ago,'" Justin says. "'But now I'm seeing that there really are people who believe that success is knowing who to blame for your failures.'" Justin--a college dropout and dotcom failure during the boom, a CEO and dotcom success in 2002--laughs a rueful laugh at that...
...holds several half-empty bottles of high-end liquor and assorted Annenberg dishware. Evans reveals that he shipped 20 liters of vodka over from England, accruing $500 in fines in the process. “My mom called me up,” he says with a rueful smile and gesturing with an open liquor bottle, “and said my father was too furious to speak to me.” The girls settle down on the futon that lines one wall, underneath a print rented from the Fogg featuring a voluptuous brunette embracing a Coca-Cola bottle...
...reputation is largely due to his astounding ability to present the tangled emotions of troubled parent-child and marital relationships with comic verve, bracing clarity and dramatic tension fused with an undercurrent of pathos. These predicaments are well represented in the seven stories of his first collection...Russo's rueful understanding of the twisted skein of human relationships is as sharp as ever, and the dialogue throughout is barbed, pointed and wryly humorous. The collection is a winner...