Word: regretful
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Indeed, a year ago, Schwarzenegger had very little to regret. Initially, he used his celebrity to pass a stem-cell research funding initiative and a major bond issue that tempered rising budget deficits, while working well with a Democratic-controlled legislature to secure passage of a popular gun-control law and environmental measures. But perhaps because success came so easy, he stopped playing the role of consensus builder. After all, many of the ballot initiatives he pushed--as well as his failed effort earlier this year to bring the costly public pension system under control--made sense. California's redistricting...
...done carpentry, I’ve done roofing,” he says. “But culinary is the first place I’ve been into where everybody’s not f’ed up on something.” Voice full of disgust and regret, he describes a former roofing boss who, high on cocaine, smashed his fingers in a gearbox...
...somewhat liberal—I wasn’t so shocked. Indeed, when I stepped into the hallway outside my bedroom last month to see the police arresting a level three sex offender, I hardly batted an eyelash. One might infer from all of this that I regret my choice of schools, but that is not the case. Though I may not have fully realized it when I decided to enroll, Harvard’s opportunities for undergraduates are unbeatable and easily compensate for the terrors of urban living. Thus, the deceptive lure of the city drew...
...Tallahassee”’s strength is in the inconceivably un-ironic tone adopted by an ironically conceived fictional speaker. On Thursday, Darnielle referred to “Old College Try,” a nostalgic expression of regret and fatalism, as “that part in Tallahassee when everyone’s getting ready for a divorce… [accepting that] ‘that’s the way it’s going...
...curt, even hostile. I would find out later that while I was leaving passive-aggressive voicemails, my grandpa was being eulogized. I didn’t have a meaningful relationship with my grandpa. Family Bar Mitzvahs were the only times I saw him—a fact that I regret. But here are some things I did know about him: he had back problems; he could hardly walk; he was a doctor who served in the Second World War; he was something of a philanderer. He raised my mother and her sister as Reform Jews in Squirrel Hill, sort...