Word: regretable
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...greatly regret that I am unable to be with you," Angelica said the president wrote. "I have looked forward to this conference for many months, and I am fully with you in spirit...
...people who turn their faces, shuddering, from the modern world. His male protagonists are weak and bloodless, his women lumpy and conflicted. As a class, they have even lost their ability to breed. "A virgin to both sexes" is a confessional phrase used more than once, wryly but without regret, by his heroes. Some of them still have money -- old, of course, because latching on to new money would require the burgerlich rapacity that their great-grandparents successfully hid. If they have professions, they are likely to be lawyers, ineffectual but tolerated in the old firms because their names...
...resemblehanging judges, and sometimes they must feel uneasy about their power over life and death, love and loneliness. Perhaps that is what prodded Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski and his writing collaborator, Krzysztof Piesiewicz (himself a lawyer), to create Three Colors: Red, a movie about a judge racked by guilt, regret and his need to keep eavesdropping on other people's crimes and pain...
...regret the disruption that was experienced by students taking the exam in Science Center C, but unfortunately we cannot entirely insulate ourselves from the acts of malicious or thoughtless people," he wrote...
...want to send a brief word of greeting to all of you who are gathered together on this important occasion," the president's letter says. "I greatly regret that I am unable to be with you. I have looked forward to this conference for many months, and I am fully with you in spirit...