1.   But a strange mixture of self-reliance, humor and weary resignation have kept a nation famous for revolutions from falling apart.

2.   Instead there was only a weary resignation.

3.   It is unhappy in a way that somehow combines weary resignation with caustic defiance and then adds a certain antic spontaneity.

4.   My fellow passengers usually sit in weary resignation.

5.   Others expressed a weary resignation at entering an airport turned into an armed camp.

6.   The mutations represent the weary resignation of immigrants who must learn to accommodate, yet struggle to cling to the traditions and culture they have left behind.

7.   While wage arrears and layoffs are a big problem, weary resignation, not anger, seems to dominate.

8.   But in a country at war for more than two decades, there is a sense of weary resignation.