Word: regretfulness
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...From my point of view, they are the antichrist of the world." -To a Colorado Springs television station in April 2006, about James Dobson's Focus on the Family group. He later said, "I regret having used that term. I meant to say this approach was un-Christian, meaning self-serving and selfish...
...reversed. One general concern among doctors is that women who choose to get sterilized might later change their minds. In a study in Obstetrics & Gynecology of 11,232 women who had been voluntarily sterilized, 20% of those who were younger than 30 at the time of the operation felt regret later, compared with 6% of those who were older than 30. Bennett, who stopped performing tubal ligations a year ago and now sterilizes only with Essure, says, "The most important job we have is to make sure people are absolutely certain." He discussed the issue for a year with Chastity...
...arrogance, narrow nationalism and bullying unilateralism of the Bush Administration is symbolized by the U.S. flag that neocon leaders display in their buttonholes. Colin Powell (although not a neocon) felt obliged, as Secretary of State, to follow suit. It's a matter of regret that Obama, as presidential candidate, felt that he had to prove his patriotism by doing likewise. Obama, for many Europeans and maybe most non-Americans, symbolizes hope for the future. I was privileged to be a resident research fellow at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, during the presidential election of November 1960, when Kennedy narrowly...
...before promptly forgetting about me. Happily inebriated, they galloped off in search of adventures as I snored and smeared mascara on my sheets. The next morning, I would meet them for brunch, resentfully devouring stacks of waffles as they complained smugly about their hangovers, reeking of debauchery and feigned regret...
...drums and 808s undergird stabbing piano chords while electro-Gaye Kanye hugs the contours of a repetitious minor-blues melody. It’s the first movement to Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” gone horribly, stunningly wrong, and Kanye’s regret seeps through the vocoding: “I’m not loving you / The way I wanted to.” The “you” here seems clear. Kanye and his fiancée called the whole thing off last summer, and this...