| 1. | Their ruefulness didn't actually match the flamboyance of her costumes.
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| 2. | Mr . Kersee nodded, formally, without even any hint of ruefulness.
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| 3. | Parker colors Sarah's anger with piercing ruefulness.
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| 4. | Even so, Red has kept his ruefulness.
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| 5. | This often involves ironic observation, wordplay, ruefulness delivered with an arched eyebrow.
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| 6. | Lydon, in an interview, responded to the impasse and suspensions with a blend of ruefulness and ire.
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| 7. | But she added, with a hint of ruefulness, " Science certainly was my first love ."
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| 8. | By the time she finishes her exquisite lament, Pettiford has journeyed from self-mocking ruefulness to achingly tragic self-acceptance.
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| 9. | For a while, " Love, etc . " feels suffused with more generosity and ruefulness than Barnes usually offers.
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| 10. | The late-afternoon sun glanced through a SoHo cafe's window to highlight the ruefulness in Nikki Stern's smile.
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