Word: regretably
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...violent death will bring the older man to guilt and confession, or the younger one to recognize that a child's claim on a parent may be something less than absolute. The dialogue, believable throughout the book, is at its best in this encounter. Speaking with rage and regret, Sam says to his son, "You still have hurty eyes...
Cyril Ramaphosa, general secretary of the union, accused the mine owners and the government of provoking the violence. The police blamed the disturbances on rival tribal factions and union troublemakers. In Washington the State Department last week issued a statement expressing regret at the deaths and injuries, "especially since they apparently occurred after a legal strike by black mine workers was successfully resolved...
...storm approaching, he and Rosie were finally ready to settle down near Savona, Italy. "I knew it was going to be an interesting landing," recalls Kittinger, who was thrown from the basket as Rosie hit some trees. Jubilant despite a broken foot, he had just one regret. "I wanted to land in Moscow," he announced. "Not for political reasons, but because it would have been the longest possible trip." Already, of course, he's dreaming about the Pacific...
...full of fervor. There's a lot of preaching, but sanctimony can't even creep in the back door. Richard's descriptions of an earlier search for the Lord, when he forsook show business to study the Bible at Oakwood College, are rich not only in regret but in comedy, much of it knowing. "The elders didn't like me taking my yellow Cadillac on the campus," Richard confesses. "They had discovered that I was a homosexual, and I resented the discovery . . . They forgave me, oh, definitely they did forgive me, but I couldn...
...Chief Viktor Chebrikov: My dear Comrade General Secretary. I regret to inform you of a most serious intelligence lapse...