Word: regretful
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...height of this abandonment came with the concert’s climax during their best known single, “Crazy Game of Poker.” OAR’s ballad about losing it all in a poker game echoes not with regret but rebirth. Accompanying the loss, explained lead singer Mark Roberge during an prelude to the song, is the realization that although you can lose your home and lose your money, “you can never lose your soul...
...post-college Volkswagen cross-country trips and today, we have lost the expectation that college is the most likely place to find someone to share the rest of our lives with. We don’t expect to meet our lifemates as undergraduates and we feel no real regret when relationships that made us content and complete while at school do not make the cut in the world outside. As our priorities shift and our values applaud professional success louder than romantic success, love—of at least the college variety—is simply no longer a reason...
...Beijing won out. Although she is now trapped in “recruiting hell,” she does not regret her decision. In fact, the summer strengthened her interest in East Asia and made her more determined than ever to be recruited by a firm with a presence in that region. Her preference for East Asia is based on her desire to be close to family and her boyfriend, stationed with the US Army in South Korea...
...named Jason's new comix novella, "Hey, Wait..." (Fantagraphics Books; 64pp; $9.95), beginning with the come-on of the title. Originally in Norwegian, Jason's work has only just begun to appear in English. "Hey, Wait..." marks his first solo book in the States. A story about tragedy and regret told in a sweetly simple way, it stands out as one of the most beautifully sad comix in recent memory...
...medley of puzzle pieces. Although it is his first published work after his illness, Murray reflects only briefly, but thoughtfully, on his own experience of unconsciousness and reawakening. One such poem, “A Reticence,” combines the description of an autumn landscape with the regret of missing a day of such beautiful existence, “and I sobbed because I’d missed that day / my entire lovely...