Word: regretable
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...regret to inform you that two of the sources you cited have actually won RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS. Despite their excellent qualifications, we are disappointed that you chose these sources for your article. Some of their peers would be a better fit for the Crimson's Senior Sob Stories...
...Watching Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman play off each other while portraying hard-nosed detectives was thoroughly enjoyable. And yet if I had known more about Seven before actually watching it last week in the Science Center, I would never have gone. After seeing it, I have come to regret that it was ever made...
...regret not taking better advantage of the city and what the areas around here have to offer," Gilmore says. "It's tough to get a whole day at a time...
Reading over these pieces, I felt a certain amount of guilt and regret. I began thinking about which sentences I would not have written if I could do it all over again, which positions I would-have made more moderate if I had had a second chance. But then I stopped to ask myself whether this exercise was useful in any way. After all, hindsight is 20-20. The essential problem with censoring yourself in order to make sure you don't go "too far" is that you often don't know how far is too far until that point...
...Lincoln solemnly gave his celebrated sermon, although his words betokened reconciliation and a desire to "bind up the nation's wounds," the one emotion noticeably absent from his remarks was regret. He declared, like a stern grandfather admonishing the young, that while all wished the war to come quickly to its close, "if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand...