rueful

She turned toward him, a rueful look on her face.

He looked rueful as they walked back to the car.

A rueful smile and a kind word are easy to come by.

The author in him was a little rueful at his track record.

She looked up into my face with a rueful expression.

The smile turned rueful, but there was nothing in his voice.

He made a small rueful sound, not quite a laugh.

He gave her a rueful smile, an old man on a child's face.

What makes it different is the rueful attention to detail.

But at the same time she read the look in his eyes, and her expression was rueful.

The smile was still there, but it had become rueful.

She seemed rather rueful when the clerk turned toward her.

In her rueful stories, justice is done - whether we like it or not.

The smile he offered the other figure was open, yet rueful.

She gave me a rueful smile and shook her head.

He looked rueful, but it was far less than an apology.

The old man shook his head with a rueful smile.

Ted gave him a rueful smile and left the room.

Again, she shook her head, this time with a rueful sound.

I sat down on the sofa and tried to look rueful.

There is rueful talk about how it was ahead of them a generation ago.

The man before him returned his smile, but it was a rueful one.

He gave a little start, and then smiled, but his smile was rueful.

She looked back at Jack, who returned her rueful smile.

She heard a rueful chuckle on the other end of the line.