Sentence examples for rueful contemplation from inspiring English sources

The soundtrack, due out on Tuesday on DGC/Interscope, strikes a balance between riotous clamor and rueful contemplation, enlisting a lot of mallet percussion and vigorously strummed acoustic guitars.

Late in September 1836, a five-year voyage came to an end, and a young naturalist stepped ashore at Falmouth on 2 October and looked back in rueful contemplation of the severe privations that he – unlike Captain Cook's men – never faced.

Typical of Kim's poetry, the emotional stance of the speaker in "Pandal" is one of rueful contemplation.

My contemplation?

He sounded rueful.

Enough contemplation.

Contemplation Environments.

A rueful laugh.

Krauze grows rueful.

He smiles, rueful.

Cash's version is rueful.