Word: regretably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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French movies speak in whispers and prescribe moderation; they take stethoscope readings of the middle-class heart and find passion and accommodation, romance and regret, residing there. Though Bernice Rubens' novel and play I Sent a Letter to My Love are set in Wales, they have found a home on the coast of Brittany and with this small, splendid cast...
...effective for being unused, that gives the crown, and the nation's confidence in the person who wears it, their real importance," notes British Constitutional Expert Ronald Butt. Unused, perhaps, but certainly not unfelt. Just recently the Queen let Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher know about her shock and regret over the street violence and, according to a very senior government official, expressed her clear wish that "reconciliation" be the objective that all races and religions should strive to achieve...
...emotions, even to himself, and his writing, though workmanlike, is usually as flat as the plains of Kansas, where he grew up. When he was emotional, as on the death of his father, he could be poignant. "I'm proud he was my father," he noted. "My only regret is that it was always so difficult to let him know the great depth of my affection for him." Of his wife Mamie and his son John he said almost nothing. The diaries, and the histories that are now emerging, are be ginning to reveal Eisenhower, the adept politician...
...strings attached to their use of the F-16s. Indeed, late last week Israel condemned as "unfair" the latest delay in F-16 deliveries. Said Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "If this is the price Israel has to pay to defend its people, then we don't regret anything...
...lack of evidence; one was tried separately for lesser crimes and got two years. Among the surviving defendants, nearly all admitted sharing the responsibility for the brutality of the camp but stopped short of admitting to any murders. Hermine Ryan told the court she now had "deep understanding and regret" for the sufferings of the prisoners. "I only reject the charge of murder," she added. In the end, the testimony was strong enough to exact the maximum penalty only for Ryan -and for just two murders...