Rueful

The staging of a play, with inmates as characters; the story of Alonso Quijana's transformation into the fabled Knight of the Rueful Countenance.

James Scarborough: Man of La Mancha at Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2012

The staging of a play, with inmates as characters; the story of Alonso Quijana's transformation into the fabled Knight of the Rueful Countenance.

James Scarborough: Man of La Mancha at Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2012

The staging of a play, with inmates as characters; the story of Alonso Quijana's transformation into the fabled Knight of the Rueful Countenance.

James Scarborough: Man of La Mancha at Musical Theatre West James Scarborough 2012

Rueful at not having spent enough time sharing this adventure with my really-real-life girlfriends (who, it must be said, barely noticed that I was not in my usual place at their side, so much was the fun being had with the rest of you).

High School Confidential | Her Bad Mother 2007

They had plenty of supporting materials: Rueful anecdotes about legacies that didn't pan out, a poll of recent graduates who admitted that the importance of schools 'rankings diminished over the years, statistics showing high satisfaction levels even at schools that failed to make the two-dozen cut.

Karen Stabiner: Parents and the College Admissions Craze 2008

Rueful humor is usually Kennedy's way of showing pain-and of distancing himself from it.

Sobering Times 2008

(Fantasy YA writers, of course, are these days laboring under a burden that sits at an entirely different end of the spectrum: rather than one writer having a work investigated and found to apparently borrow from others, many of us are now routinely assumed to be borrowing from one particular writer before anybody even cracks a cover to find out otherwise.) (Insert Rueful Grin here.)

The axe falls | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit" 2006

Then noble Rueful, like Ares himself, struck his flawless head-piece made of four pots — he only among the Frogs showed prowess in the throng.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Rueful at not having spent enough time sharing this adventure with my really-real-life girlfriends who, it must be said, barely noticed that I was not in my usual place at their side, so much was the fun being had with the rest of you.

High School Confidential 2007

Rueful at not having spent enough time sharing this adventure with my really-real-life girlfriends who, it must be said, barely noticed that I was not in my usual place at their side, so much was the fun being had with the rest of you.

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