Word: regretably
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...Just because this film's hero is part of the new generation of action hero - sensitive, bland, little more than a foil for the special effects - doesn?t mean this is a good thing. Granted, there?s only one Chuck Heston, and although I stick by my regret that we will never see the next best thing, a frantically bug-eyed Arnold Schwarzenegger screaming at apes in his inimitable Viennese howl, you knew you were going to sacrifice something in the way of charisma this time around...
...compensation sends the U.S. political establishment into apoplexy. European states that would be implicated alongside the U.S. on slavery and by themselves on colonialism are backing Washington to the hilt. The best the descendants of those wronged can hope for, say U.S. diplomats, is a collective statement of regret...
...regret that. But one must also be forgiving of oneself. I grew up on the values of the movies of my day. An impressionable child, I didn't just watch them; I drank them. I doted on stars like Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Robert Taylor, Cary Grant. They were "naughty," and naughty was In. My entire life was influenced by their images--the temptress, the seductress, the bad guy onscreen. The messages I got were that relationships were flighty and based on physical beauty. My life became these movies...
...Zheng works as a toilet engineer in a Nanjing factory. Still, while China had largely forgotten his heroic ancestor, Zheng says family legends kept his exploits very much alive. Tales of his voyages were passed down through the generations like a fragment of silken embroidery. "Zheng He's one regret," says his descendant, "is that he never reached Mecca." On the last voyage, by the time a few men from his fleet finally made the pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site, Zheng He had died. Both his father and grandfather had made the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca overland...
...When I went to the Arizona Memorial and looked underneath, every 40 seconds a bubble surfaces. There are 1,177 dead entombed there. I felt like those bubbles were the bubbles of resentment of those dead. And I regret that. I shed a tear. Why do Americans feel anger toward Japan? Why do they still hate us? I understand...