Significados de ruefulness en inglés

Once more the lad laughed, this time with comic ruefulness.

A smile of enforced ruefulness, like a leaf curling in heat, wrinkled his mouth.

He owned the lure, at last, with a bitter ruefulness.

She should have been delighted at Armada's failure, but a ruefulness infected even her.

Ah me!'-witha comic ruefulness-'Holtshould be a happy man.'

With a ruefulness that took him back more than forty years, he dismounted from his horse.

Stuart smiled, though with a taint of ruefulness.

She shook her head with mock ruefulness.

The figure shook its head, conveying ruefulness.

In the midst of his ruefulness the doctor, a capable-looking man of five and thirty, entered the room.

The black domino laughed with ruefulness.

He laughed, with sorry ruefulness.

He still eyed Drew straightly, but there was a ruefulness rather than hostile defiance in his voice as he asked:

His ruefulness changed to a grin when he had the money in his hand, and Bull Hunter rose from the table.

He spoke with a semi-whimsical ruefulness, and, having spoken, he went to the window and stood there with his face to the darkness.

Hemmings's characterisation of cheery ruefulness in the face of ageing seems all the more plangent in the light of his own early death.