"Afterward I often regretted that move, especially when I saw my former classmates getting on so well inside the system," he wrote.
I have often thought, though I have often regretted the University, that it was much the reverse".
I've often regretted the fact that factual films appear to have become the near-exclusive property of the progressive conscience because it makes for a narrowness of approach, restricting films to audiences of the long converted.
We so often regret acts of greed, but we never regret being generous--actually generous not generosity dosed with greed (i.e. a gift rather than a loan).
Survivors often regret their decision in midair, if not before.
They say no and often regret it for the rest of their lives.
"People often regret the pop culture tattoos, the mass commodified tattoos," said Atkinson, who has a Guns N' Roses tattoo as a marker of his younger days.
Republicans often regret this.Bonnie WrenCarlsbad, CaliforniaStar trekSIR – You emphasised the "macho, gung-ho" nature of the space race ("Spacemen are from Mars", September 29th).
Are you more of a spendthrift or tightwad?" Spendthrifts experience little pain spending money and often regret their financial recklessness, while tightwads feel pain when they spend too much money, and might experience "non-buyer's remorse".
(Regret of the sort the mother felt is not unusual; as Tad Friend noted in his piece on people who jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, "Survivors often regret their decision in midair, if not before". That makes suicide all the sadder, and is yet somehow reassuring about human nature).
