He smiles ruefully at the irony.
"Dollar bears are clearly outnumbered now, " he says ruefully.
The cuckoo replied ruefully, "How can I not feel sad at my current poor situation?"
As Mexicans have ruefully discovered, the two economies, not just the two peoples, are inextricably meshed.
On other occasions he watched ruefully as the shot, like the Bull, avoided the target.
He says ruefully that he would testify that he assaulted the condemned to make them talk.
He says he wore one once to make a presentation, but he adds ruefully, 'I think I wasn't really myself.'
"No one came to my rescue," he said ruefully. "They were afraid I'd blame them for my fall."
When he wished to continue his studies in Peiping, his father ruefully showed him his empty purse.
When he returned home from a long day at the office, Jeremy Brosowsky would glance ruefully at his coffee table.
The boss of a large Asian fund ruefully admits that its Japan unit is incorporated in the Cayman Islands to escape the country's punishing 40% tax rate.
He concluded ruefully that it was "arrogant and rash" to profess virtues that you cannot live up to, and retreated into indolent seclusion.
Over a vegetarian curry in London recently, Vaze ruefully described to me the “six bloody months” he spent trying to research an eco-renovation of his home.
"I don't believe you ever intend to marry me, Charlie," Carrie said ruefully. The recent protestations of Hurstwood had given her courage to say this.
Finally, Su Taoying, Tingting's mother, clasps her 12-year-old daughter's hand and says, ruefully, "Next time I see you, you will be taller than me."
But today, Mr Yapias says ruefully, it is the Mexicans and Chicanos (American citizens of Mexican ancestry), as well as other Latinos such as himself (born in Peru), who tend to be asked for papers.
Not this child, Devin thought ruefully, gauging the distance and the light from where they were hidden among the trees north of the ribbon of road the Barbadians had just ridden along.
