Word: regretful
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...comes with being a resident outsider: a fear of stepping into the unknown combined with the shame that comes from seeking the comfort of your own kind when you are supposed to be out making friends with the locals. Chris Stewart steps out of the expat ghetto?to his regret?in a passage from A Parrot in the Pepper Tree. In his tale of what happens when an outsider gets between a local man and his woman in Spanish Andalusia, Stewart asks, "What should you wear in bed when you are waiting for someone to come and kill...
Gavitt concurred that the Ivies’ stance is unlikely to be adopted elsewhere. He expressed regret that as the Ivy schools have become less competitive in Division I, the once highly influential voices of the conference’s athletic directors have become silent...
...distinguished and successful appellate lawyer, a high-ranking graduate of Harvard Law School, a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and a former Assistant to the Solicitor General. He has also been given the highest rating by the American Bar Association. What the Senate Democrats regret is that they have been deprived of the opportunity to pick over the transcripts of such discussions for choice tidbits that they can take out of context and twist to partisan purposes. Estrada declined to play that game, but his refusal deprived no one of pertinent information...
...trying to get right on Lobue,” Traugott said. “I knew that I had to go for it at some point, or I’d regret it, so I went with a little more than a lap to go. I wanted it more than anything else, so I was really shattered when Lobue crossed first...
...YOUR LEGAL CAREER AFFECT YOUR FAMILY LIFE? I took time off with each of my two children. And really I worked only part time until they were 4 and 6. If I have one regret, it's that I didn't take more time off with them than...