"Yonkers has taken a lot of wrong turns," he observed ruefully.

"Not as much as we should like to," he observed ruefully.

Professor Kincaid had remained on board, ruefully observing that his age and a heart condition prevented him from joining the search party.

But he observed ruefully and correctly that no one around today is providing the leadership or vision for such a strategy.

The shtetl they all wish to leave, the film observes ruefully, is a place that will never be the same again.

"I had written a very fine book in my head before arriving," she observes ruefully.

Americans have not learned to preserve their history, she ruefully observed, and that is especially true of black history.

Washington's record, Power ruefully observes, is not one of failure, but of success.

With the telegraph, James ruefully observed, "anyone can get the news."