"Our honeymoon will last the weekend and then it will be back to campaigning, " she said ruefully.
Every now and then there was, he sang ruefully, a little lesson "yn Welsh chware teg".
Then, just as quickly, his eyes narrow and he gazes ruefully down the street.
The gimmick didn't help his Web site go public or even deliver sales, Carfaro ruefully admits.
"There was no-one anywhere near him - as usual for an England injury, " he said ruefully.
Once she noted ruefully: "such hearty shakes as they gave my poor little hand too!"
"You know, there were so many pie-in-the-sky dreams back then, " he says ruefully.
"I was really tired of Jerry Springer, " the New York man says ruefully.
He was replaced by an older, maybe wiser, man who would grin ruefully at any reference to his legendary past.
Mr. Trintignant, a popular star of French films in the 1960s and '70s, achieves in his role a ruefully calm transcendence.
At the end of the day, as Encysive ruefully learned, the FDA can still find reasons to delay or reject a drug.
He was, he would ruefully confess, not a good judge of character.
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"We had a few scrums on the line and a lineout on the line - teams are scoring at those opportunities, but we didn't, " he said ruefully.
Back at the Place des Quinconces, the two men smile ruefully.
But as many of his friends and advisors have ruefully noted over the years, Bush never learned how to translate his personal views into policy.
"One of the jockeys never rode again, " says Coleman ruefully.
As Iraqi diplomats ruefully note, those neighbours' enthusiasm might have been greater if America had been more willing to engage them with carrots as well as sticks.
The result, notes Mr Hyman ruefully, is that children are starting to learn (or, more accurately, to attend lessons in) Spanish, when they cannot even read or write English.
However, as Mr Blair ruefully acknowledged this week, the only inquiry that can satisfy his most persistent critics is one that finds him guilty of fighting an unjustified war.
American officials ruefully agree that they should have thought about the regional response to an agreement they now say was not necessary and was drawn up at Colombian insistence.
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It is currently cheaper, an Indian businessman says ruefully, to export plastic granules to China and then import them again in bucket-form, than it is to make buckets in India.
That's because, as the editor of the English language version of the Phnom Penh Post says to me, somewhat ruefully, they know hardly any Cambodians will read or hear it.
Unsurprisingly, an air of regret often hangs over the group's bittersweet reunion album, Time on Earth, which eulogizes Hester amid an assortment of songs that sparkle more ruefully than ever before.
One Palestinian negotiator says ruefully that just about the only area where the Palestinians, Israel and Jordan can now bring themselves to co-operate is over mosquito control in the Jordan Valley.
"Billions of television viewers were able to admire Britain's industrial and financial know-how", commented a writer in Le Monde, perhaps contemplating ruefully what might have been if Paris instead had won the games.
Having witnessed the free-kicking prowess of Brazilians past (eg, Rivelino and Zico) and present (Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos and, as the English will recall ruefully, Ronaldinho), the opportunity as depicted seems a certain goal for Brazil.
That wish for a benevolent and omniprotective parent was a political and emotional fantasy, as Roth himself ruefully understood but perhaps also an inescapable fantasy of a kind that all of us at some level share.
During his four years at Toyota's helm, Toyoda has learned the hard way the costs of blindly pursuing growth, a strategy inherited from his predecessor that he ruefully acknowledges got him slammed by a cascade of recalls.
Rather than forcing a five-year lease on tenants as most commercial landlords do in Hong Kong, Dotcom House signs deals for as short as one year -- "In case the start-ups aren't around longer, " adds Chan ruefully.
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