rueful betydelse and definition

Exempel på rueful

• Perhaps other interviewees, mixed with rueful chuckles of those who simply identify with the speaker's disenchantment.

• Hence, the rueful regret often expressed by policy professionals that many people in poor communities lack confidence, that is, confidence comparable to those used to exercising personal and collective power.

• Councillors make that admission with a rueful laugh.

• I can well understand the somewhat rueful comments which have been made this afternoon about the volume of paper involved.

• This particular provision goes far beyond that and creates a situation where solicitors will be very rueful about acting in this sort of case.

• It will be to them a very rueful reflection that they are the victims of clearing up a tax anomaly.

• I can see from the rueful smile on his face that he does not really believe that, but he made a good point.

• He was quite prepared to work within the economic boundaries being set, and of course he had a rueful experience upon which to draw.