Word: regretful
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...wasn’t regret, but a sort of paranoid panic over what to do,” he said...
...young waitress finds herself mixed up with an insecure actress, a great pianist withdrawing from performing and an art collector selling his collection. It has a chipper spirit, and, in the end, things work out all right for all concerned, yet it also carries with it an air of regret, a sense that life is harder, less rewarding than its many characters would like it to be. It's a movie the regretful spirit of which is somewhat at odds with its blithe manner...
...felt guilty about the draft deferment he would get for it, when other young men his age were heading for Vietnam. In the end, it was Ann - a convert to Mormonism from having been a once-a-year churchgoing Episcopalian - who persuaded him to go, saying he would always regret it if he didn't. He didn't convert many Frenchmen but found the experience was something that "concentrates the mind," he says. "My faith has been a part of my foundation throughout my life. My faith has made me a better person than I would have been...
...goals of the Picture Balata tour was to afford American audiences the rare opportunity to hear the unfiltered thoughts of three bright children from Balata refugee camp and see the photographic concepts that they themselves developed. We regret that Shai Bronshtein found these children’s reality too difficult to bear and instead of coming to terms with it, used his column space in the Harvard Crimson to deny these kids’ experiences and perpetuate myths...
...terminate the experiment early due to the increasing levels of extreme sexual and mental humiliation the prisoners were experiencing.To this day, Zimbardo admits that he is still distraught about the events that occurred and feels guilty because he did not end the experiment even earlier. Zimbardo’s regret is evident from the opening of his preface. “I wish I could say that writing this book was a labor of love; it was not that for a single moment of the two years it took to complete,” he writes...