According to the official Turkish version, perhaps 500,000 Armenians died, some while fighting alongside invading Russians against Ottoman forces and others as a regrettable side-effect of deportations that were understandable in the context of the times.
Survivors and their scattered descendants put the toll as high as 1.5m, insist the deaths were largely intentional rather than a regrettable side-effect, and want the events recognised as genocide.
Still, Mr. Long's ambiguous exploration of gender stereotypes and life-threatening illnesses, inspired by his visits to H.I.V./AIDS clinics in Vietnam, lands on the regrettable side of derivative dance.
Beyond the barbecue, there's a roster of forgettable if not regrettable sides and a lot of fried food: fried green tomatoes, fried pickles and fried chicken, both as fingers and as bird quarters.
But, what the heck, these are regrettable side-effects of a much freer, better informed world.
But for a regrettable minority, the Asian face seems to be a topic of conversation.
And interestingly, despite making many other contraptions standard on the new Maxima, Nissan's chosen to leave the devices that lessen torque steer on the options side of the sticker, a regrettable decision to our way of thinking.
Vardy, who opened the scoring against Sunderland, apologises for "a regrettable error" and keeps his place in the side – starring in a 2-1 win at West Ham two days later.
And while she agreed there was a regrettable dispute, she said the violence was all coming from the other side – poisoned arrows were shot at visitors by the Masai, she claimed.
In facing up to the problems with contemporary South African society, there has been a regrettable and discernible trend towards novels with a "faults on both sides" attitude.
