Sentence examples for if ruefully from inspiring English sources
Here the whole tragedy is an unhappy memory for Friar Laurence, who stalks in and out of the action as if ruefully observing the trouble he caused.
Friedman honestly if ruefully admitted that Belgrade was the exception to his rule, but this was a warning against grandiose theories, golden or otherwise.
While framing her face gorgeously with hands and arms like a wreath, she's never saying "Look at me" but always "Where next?" Holding one arm flexed, she waits as if deciding; then she brings her raised hand softly over her face as if ruefully; and then pow! She's off, her whole body driving her forth into the next adventure of her soul.
So you could forgive the filmmaker for sounding an I-told-you-so note--if ruefully --when asked 48 hours after the Trump upset about his accurate forecast.
Even if Matteo ruefully admits that he would not have heeded that particular lesson, he hopes the others in his engaging autobiography do not fall on deaf ears.
But, he said, one of his colleagues wondered ruefully if that spending was "the storm before the calm".
And, as Hofstadter ruefully if wittily recognised (including under "T" "typo in index, 633" in a book that ended on page 632) they sometimes contain typos.
A member of the audience shook his head ruefully: "If your country introduces tougher controls, our President will immediately use it as an excuse to clamp down on our media too".
Peaked eyebrows, as if he were, ruefully, one of them — a trick from the actors' repertoire contradicted by a momentary, hardly perceptible contact of those eyes with her own, diamonds, black with the intensity that it was his talent to summon, a stage prop taken up and at once released, at will.
While God held out no hope that Rev. Robertson's "700 Club" would be cancelled any time soon, He did say, somewhat ruefully, "If Pat Robertson were on NBC he'd be replaced by Jay Leno by now".
Whitaker smiled broadly (if a touch ruefully) as he welcomed Kelly to the podim saying "Time keeps reinvigorating its role as a newsweekly and demonstrates its relevance and importance in a changing media world".
