"But I never got to go very fast," she said, with a touch of rueful humor.

It helped to itemize, categorize and organize, she thought with rueful humor.

He regained his calm and a measure of rueful good humour.

She looked at him with rueful humor.

They said the announcement would be today, he thought with rueful humor, and they've said that seven times before.

"First Snow," about burying her mother, conveys shock, rueful humor and acceptance.

As always, Ms. Marshall's rueful humor can be natural and disarming, provided it isn't working overtime to make the world a better place.

Its actors slowly work up to a level of insight, verisimilitude and rueful humor.

The family rallies again and again, sustained by friends, religious faith and rueful humor.

Kimberly's mouth twisted in rueful humor as she finished her potato and put aside her plate.