"I don't actually swear that much or when I do I don't do it very exotically," he says regretfully.
"I did very little preparation," Donnelly recalls, regretfully.
"No, I'm afraid I can't get an account," I regretfully told the very nice book club organizer, who couldn't have been more understanding.
Presenter Roger Moore was left clutching the best actor prize as Sacheen Littlefeather explained Brando "regretfully cannot accept this very generous award" due to "the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry and on television and in movie reruns".
He didn't simply say, "I'm not running," but penned a long, bloviating op-ed column about how America is so broken, how he could fix it, why "many Americans" have told him that it is his "patriotic duty" to run for president, and why he must regretfully let all those Americans down very badly.
Regretfully, in the real world things are more complex.
"Chris and I used to be really good," Mr. Rodgers said, a little regretfully.
Gail asks Bertha, who is part-Cherokee with a full mustache, not to spring her whole, very multi-faceted identity on the family at once; Bertha regretfully explains that she can be nothing but herself.
"I really liked that hat, too," he said, regretfully.
