- upon
hearing on his
deathbed that his wife had
given birth to a daughter,
ruefully exclaimed, "It cam wi' a l**** and it will gang wi' a l****!" His
House of...
- a bad
measure – is inexorably, if
ruefully,
becoming recognized as one of the
overriding laws of our times.
Ruefully, for this law of the
unintended consequence...
- workplace. "Actresses have the power," Alec Metro, one of the men in line,
ruefully noticed of the X-rated industry. A
former firefighter who
claimed to have...
- was
known as the
Council of Four Lands. It was
during this
period that a
rueful pasquinade claiming that
Poland was a "paradise for the Jews" gave birth...
- death").
risum teneatis, amici? Can you help laughing, friends? An
ironic or
rueful commentary,
appended following a
fanciful or
unbelievable tale.
risus abundat...
-
Guardian in
February 2018,
subsequent to her The Good Wife success,
Panjabi ruefully recalled "A US
talent agent once told me an
Indian woman could never have...
-
singers tagged as the "new Dylan" in the
early 1970s, a fact that he
later ruefully satirized in his song "Talking New Bob Dylan" from the
album History (1992)...
- were also
known as the
Desert Storm innings.
Following the series,
Warne ruefully joked that he was
having nightmares about his
Indian nemesis. Tendulkar's...
- the
imperative need for
health care
reform is the best in this book, a
rueful reminder of the kind of
skilled and
accessible economic analysis of which...
- Joe
Morgenstern thought the role was portra**** with "great
subtlety and
rueful charm".
Rolling Stone said
Garfield delivered "a
vulnerability that raises...
