Every now and then there was, he sang ruefully, a little lesson "yn Welsh chware teg".

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Mr. Trintignant, a popular star of French films in the 1960s and '70s, achieves in his role a ruefully calm transcendence.

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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.

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He was, he would ruefully confess, not a good judge of character.

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Finalists: "Rapture, Blister, Burn, " by Gina Gionfriddo, a searing comedy that examines the psyches of two women in midlife as they ruefully question the differing choices they have made, and "4000 Miles, " by Amy Herzog, a drama that shows acute understanding of human idiosyncrasy as a spiky 91-year-old locks horns with her rudderless 21-year-old grandson who shows up at her Greenwich Village apartment after a disastrous cross-country bike trip.

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"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.

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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.

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At the end of the day, as Encysive ruefully learned, the FDA can still find reasons to delay or reject a drug.

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