"I am not going to make an enormous difference," she ruefully concluded.

He ruefully concluded that even this could stimulate an over-heated imagination.

Chaney ruefully concluded that it didn't matter, it really didn't matter at all.

"Looks like tonight's the night," Nikos concluded ruefully.

He'd learned nothing, or almost nothing, he concluded ruefully.

He ruefully concluded that our only choices were to "become less open as a society" or simply "to live with much higher levels of risk."

This was a war, Ribbentrop ruefully concluded, that 'Germany could have won'.

"So much for that," the Cardinal concluded ruefully.

It's a learning experience,' he concluded ruefully.

But, the author ruefully concludes, "her heaviest liability is a likelihood of winding up alone."