- death").
risum teneatis, amici? Can you help laughing, friends? An
ironic or
rueful commentary,
appended following a
fanciful or
unbelievable tale.
risus abundat...
- to ****." In
terms of his
lapsed Catholicism, he said that he "came to
ruefully and
bemusedly understand that once you're a
Catholic you're
always a Catholic...
- 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...
- 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...
- and opera, and was
fascinated by
Parisian women's fashions,
although she
ruefully admitted that she "would
never be in the mode."
After 1785, she filled...
- with alcohol; Judy
Carver notes that her
father was "always very open, if
rueful,
about problems with drink".
Golding suggested that his self-described "crisis"...
- And so this
breathtaking portrait of
Hollywood failure is
wrapped up in
rueful,
ruined success." Of the
various films that have
attracted Academy Award...
- and
beholds his
disfigured face. The
Phantom rails at her prying, then
ruefully expresses his
longing to be
loved ("Stranger Than You
Dreamt It"). Moved...
