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He concluded ruefully that it was "arrogant and rash" to profess virtues that you cannot live up to, and retreated into indolent seclusion.

She smiled at him ruefully and came into his arms for a kiss.

Then someone asked him a question, and he ended the interview session, smiling ruefully as he walked out the door.

"Even now, I can see I'm slow at it, the answering back and all that, " she says ruefully.

Luis Enrique shakes his head ruefully as the American referee threatens him with a hand in his pocket.

Even while he was trying to make up his mind the curtain had fallen. He looked ruefully out the window at the afternoon sky.

"No one came to my rescue, " he said ruefully. "They were afraid I'd blame them for my fall. "

I lay back and puffed a cigarette, gazing ruefully at my pants the while; they were terribly wrinkled.

As Mackay ruefully puts it: "There will not be a single Chinese tobacco farmer out of business in my lifetime. I guarantee it. "

"I'm happy, because it's an honor that lots of chefs covet, it's just a bit late, " he told AFP ruefully.

Asher nodded ruefully, and the audience laughed aloud. Jonas did, too. He remembered, though he had been only a Three at the time himself.

At present, "they want the knockoffs , " he said ruefully.

"You look back on yourself and you wonder, Why was I that way? " he says, shaking his head ruefully.

But, hey, at least winters in South Africa are short, Johannesburgers ruefully remind themselves and others.

As its chairman admitted ruefully: "No one expected this [more than $20bn in writedowns and a capital raising] from UBS. "

When he returned home from a long day at the office, Jeremy Brosowsky would glance ruefully at his coffee table.

"That was probably one of the best Carolina teams ever, too, " Peterson recalled ruefully.

"I wanted to help Empoli to survival, but unfortunately that's the way it goes, " the deflated marksman said ruefully.

"If you've got a child that's settled and happy, you are not going to move them, " said one father ruefully.

He says ruefully that he would testify that he assaulted the condemned to make them talk.

As the commission's chair ruefully commented, "kindness and compassion cost nothing" .

He says he wore one once to make a presentation, but he adds ruefully, 'I think I wasn't really myself. '

He shook his head ruefully.

As Mexicans have ruefully discovered, the two economies, not just the two peoples, are inextricably meshed.

Frances Seymour, head of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), ruefully calls this "the gift that keeps on giving" .

A spokesman for Oxfam, an aid agency, responded ruefully that someone had "switched the coffee to decaf at today's UN climate summit" .

"So, we have not even a little chance? " Both men feel despair now. Gloria nods slowly and ruefully.

"Sorry . . . it just doesn't fit me. I'm not 20, " he said ruefully.

Ruefully, he looked down at the stack on his desk.

"Maybe he just likes patients who are dying because they don't give him any trouble, " I said ruefully.

But, he adds ruefully, "so were banking profits in the US a few years ago" .

"Dollar bears are clearly outnumbered now, " he says ruefully.

"Nobody listened, then everybody did, " Norman wrote ruefully in a 1991 article called "A future history of privatisation, 1992-2022" .

Looking back on it, he adds ruefully , "Things never work out that way. "

Mans looked ruefully at his bottle of champagne.

This is one reason people talk about their television viewing so ruefully, so apologetically.

He gazed ruefully in the mirror at his greying locks.

There are some matters in dispute between these managers, but Mourinho may well agree ruefully with that declaration.

Can Tho City Party Chief speaks ruefully about the race to build IZs and industrial complexes in the Mekong Delta.

He smiles ruefully at the irony.

Then, ruefully, he decided the sum was too large.

"We should have abandoned Labour's spending plans sooner, " he says ruefully.