Sentence examples for rueful recognition from inspiring English sources

But the quintessential Rodgers and Hart expression of rueful recognition is probably "Falling in Love With Love," a waltz that is by turns cynical, brokenhearted and ultimately fatalistic.

When Madge is played by the forever unpredictable Sorella Englund, surely the greatest mime artist in the ballet world today, as was the case on Friday night, this ending feels like a moment of rueful recognition on her part.

It was for me a moment of rueful recognition that this kind of thing might play better to the older and wiser, and more relaxed, than to the high-minded young with an interest in classical music.

Obama's rueful recognition of the contrast between his tinny personal résumé and his shiny new gold medal was just the overture to his discussion of a far more consequential and vexing tension.

At the Olympic Park this weekend, they did not look downcast – they are incapable of projecting negative energy – but there was rueful recognition that a long journey was coming to an end.

I'll admit I laughed with rueful recognition at a scene in "30 Rock" when Tina Fey's Upper West Side-dwelling chareacts reacts with dismay to a late-night party invitation proffered by a younger date.

As was always the case with Wendy's plays, she made me laugh in rueful self recognition.

Nicholas Meyer did the adaptation, and he gets some of the Rothian tone — the impatience, the sharpness, the full-bore egotism that modulates into rueful self-recognition.

Nicholas Meyer's script captures some of the Rothian tone — the impatience, the sharpness, the full-bore egotism that modulates into rueful self-recognition.

Nicholas Meyer did the adaptation, and he gets some of the Rothian tone the impatience, the sharpness, the full-bore egotism that modulates into rueful self-recognition.

His smile had a sweet, rueful sense of recognition when he said "My mom".