rueful

1 Asked who was France's greatest poet, André Gide responded with the famously rueful answer: "Victor Hugo, hélas!"

2 Laila found him standing in his study, a rueful expression on his face as he surveyed his shelves.

3 “Thank you. You look handsome tonight,” I said, returning his rueful smile.

4 Eno takes a rueful sip of his Flor de Jamaica hibiscus tea – a choice of beverage that might seem to confirm his point.

5 Tuck rolled over and made a rueful face at her.

6 ‘So this is goodbye, ’ she said ruefully.

她悲伤地说：“那么，这就是告别了。”

7 But he brought calming dignity to his portrayal, and conveyed Sarastro’s rueful awareness of how the world works outside his enlightened brotherhood.

8 “And those two songs were the hits,” the singer says with a rueful chuckle.

9 But Ms. Walter’s wizard is a man of rueful contemplation, too, conscious of himself as a victim of his own hunger for control, and wrenchingly unresolved about the traitorous enemies he must forgive.

10 A sophisticated piano-bar wit, Eric Comstock, on keyboard, plays the unflappably suave saloon dandy tossing off laments like “Everything Happens to Me” with an attitude of rueful amusement.

11 When asked if he had researched Irish jigs for “Roaratorio,” he replied, with rueful amusement, “Two whole books.”

12 “All my fantasies included marriage,” Ms. Jong wrote in one of her character’s rueful reveries.

13 Instead of working the system, the only work he produced was a rueful diary called Basta – Italian for "enough".

14 Nadella quickly negotiated his return amid fears the company could split, and days later a rueful Sutskever apologized for his role in the mutiny.

15 If you think that’s an overstatement, consider that an entire scene involves a pregnant Zoe waxing rueful about her glorious posterior, as she brandishes a photo for evidence.

16 The tone throughout Strength is by turns optimistic, rueful, and paternal.

17 This brash, vigorous, yet rueful film is among Eastwood’s most personal, farsighted, and deeply felt achievements.

18 Her recent documentaries, while not exactly confessional, are unabashedly personal, infused with her voice, her eye, her wry and rueful on-camera presence.

19 In the morning, Darcy is rueful about the sex and tersely pre-empts any notion of reviving their relationship by stating that he doesn’t want to use up any more of Jones’s childbearing years.

20 Slow-paced, sad, rueful and sometimes warmly funny, “After the Storm” is one of his sturdiest, and most sensitive, constructions.

1 懊悔的

remorseful contrite regretful sorry repentant remorseless

2 悲哀

doloroso sad tragic feral weeping dreary mournful plaintive funereal lugubrious plangent triste lachrymose defunctive tristful ruthful funebrial dirgeful sadly tear passion teen sorrow sadness woe affliction dole desolation ruth dolor tristesse break rue sadden heavy melancholy woeful doleful dolorous moanful pathetically sorrowfully plaintively lugubriously lament unhappiness pathos sorriness with a sigh sorry miserable touching dismal sorrowful sepulchral woebegone misery grieve distress deject SAD lamentable elegiac heavy-hearted shadow dolour

3 悲哀的

doloroso sad tragic feral weeping dreary mournful plaintive funereal lugubrious plangent triste lachrymose defunctive tristful ruthful funebrial dirgeful heavy melancholy woeful dolorous moanful sorry miserable touching dismal sorrowful sepulchral woebegone SAD lamentable elegiac doleful heavy-hearted

4 沉闷

dull prose oppressive dreary somber threadbare leaden wearisome Saturnine tedium

5 懊悔

remorseful contrite ruefully contritely remorsefully regret remorse contrition regretful regretfully repentance rue chasten sorry repentant remorseless repent

6 可悲的

dire deplorable piteous

7 悔恨的

sorrowful penitent repentant lamentable regretful remorseful contrite remorseless conscience-stricken

8 悲伤的

unhappy dreary grievous sorrowful mournful plaintive doleful woebegone triste woful tristful wailful dumpish moanful sighful threnetical threnodial sad heartbroken tearful teary grieved heartsore blue funereal lugubrious sorry woeful grief-stricken mirthless lamenting heavy-hearted afflictive

9 可怜

poor sorry miserable abject forlorn accursed lamentable pitiable piteous pathos in a pickle feel pity for sad bum pathetic wretched pitiful sordid sorrowful squalid ratty plaintive dickey unblessed petitionary miserably niddering nidering cat

10 沮丧的

low disappointed depressed melancholy gloomy sombre dejected despondent downcast crestfallen disconsolate down blue broken frustrate disappointing damp prostrate hipped chapfallen

11 后悔

repentant regretful sorrow repentance remorse rue regret repent sorry penitentiary penitent compunctious regretfully repentantly remorsefully penitence compunction sweat for it rue the day

12 可怜的

poor sorry miserable abject forlorn accursed lamentable pitiable piteous sad bum pathetic wretched pitiful sordid sorrowful squalid ratty plaintive dickey unblessed petitionary niddering nidering

13 忧郁的

black blue dark depressed lowering somber melancholic pensive doleful cheerless

14 沮丧

down low upset disappointed depressed frustrated melancholy gloomy sombre dejected despondent downcast crestfallen disconsolate depression frustration disappointment blues dejection let-down frustrate depress ruffle dishearten droop embitter down in the dumps down in the mouth be cast down by be cast down get down put a damper on blue broken disappointing damp prostrate hipped chapfallen heavily chill discourage dismay hump despond katzenjammer exanimation sink quail pour freeze dash disappoint dispirit deject blue funk black dog

15 忧郁

black blue dark depressed lowering somber melancholic pensive doleful cheerless vapor gloom doldrums desolation mope dumps hypochondria darken blue devils

16 悔恨

sorrowful penitent repentant lamentable regretful regret grief sorrow lament repentance prick remorse rue contrition ruth repent remorseful contrite remorseless conscience-stricken chagrin mortification compunction umbrage mortify deplore

17 后悔的

repentant regretful sorry penitentiary penitent compunctious bad

18 悲惨的

sorry tragic unhappy cruel miserable dire catastrophic disastrous pathetic dismal distressing wretched grievous harrowing abject sorrowful woeful forlorn squalid lamentable calamitous godforsaken funereal lugubrious distressful direful

19 悲惨

sorry tragic unhappy cruel miserable dire catastrophic disastrous pathetic dismal distressing wretched grievous harrowing abject sorrowful woeful forlorn squalid lamentable calamitous godforsaken funereal lugubrious distressful direful miserably unhappily ruefully distressingly piteously lugubriously misery calamity ruefulness desolate

20 沉闷的

dull prose oppressive dreary somber threadbare leaden wearisome Saturnine

21 悲伤

unhappy dreary grievous sorrowful mournful plaintive doleful woebegone triste woful tristful wailful dumpish moanful heavily sadly tear grief sorrow sadness mourning heartache plain mourn grieve sadden rue bewail fracture sighful threnetical threnodial sad heartbroken tearful teary grieved heartsore comfortlessly sighfully comfortlessness lament take no thought for lament over blue funereal lugubrious distress sickness woe blues lamentation affect pine get down cut up sorry woeful grief-stricken mirthless lamenting heavy-hearted afflictive heartbreak tristesse greet overcloud vex aggrieve