She was headed straight for me and I wondered ruefully if I was going to get walked through, body, bones and car.

I ruefully wondered which hurt more, my bruised face or my bruised ego.

Sorka's exhibition of female exasperation that morning was the first of its kind, to Red's knowledge, and he wondered ruefully if her patience with Sean's obtuseness was exhausted, or if their relationship was merely entering a new phase.

After the unexpected triumph of the Reds over the Whites in October 1919, Gotye wondered ruefully, "has it really fallen through this time, too?

THE anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once wondered ruefully whether "pictures could offer something substantial to readers who have never been there."

Michael Nash wondered ruefully if he should offer free analysis to Anne Thayer, the blonde who so unfortunately had bought the apartment next to his.

As she said it, Royan wondered ruefully why so many people used that particular phrase to introduce a lie.

He wondered ruefully whether his suspicions were well founded, or if he had merely-finally-started to think like a Romulan.

But, he said, one of his colleagues wondered ruefully if that spending was "the storm before the calm."