Word: regretful
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...future years, young professionals like Tang Yigai, 37, will be charged with making them work. Tang, a husky man who speaks rapidly, is vice director of economic research for the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He was a Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution. "People did things they now regret," he recalls. "It was not a good time...
...surprising as it happens but remarkably predictable in retrospect. Once time has conferred its brand of wisdom, even the least perceptive person can look back and recognize how one misstep of fate led to another. Thus a hallmark of growing older is the increasing impact of memory, simultaneously spurring regret and reconciliation. Those conflicting impulses are at the heart of Michael Frayn's Benefactors. Its four characters, addressing the audience from the perspective of middle age, watch themselves in flashback as exuberantly misguided young adults. And although the play's nominal topics include high-rise architecture, neighborhood preservation, the sins...
Even though he might regret it, Franklin admits, “if you dare me I’ll still do it.” The dare he regrets the most...
...returned to Harvard this spring, wrote in an e-mail that he is sorry about the thefts. “I made some mistakes that I deeply regret and hurt some people in ways I wish I had not,” he wrote. “I hope I am a different person now and that people will be able to judge me for who I am today and not for who I was then...
Though they have expressed regret for their errors, the professors’ actions have faced criticism from other figures in higher education...