He accepted as fact a claim for which there was no valid basis: that the prohibited procedure placed women at special jeopardy for acute post-abortion regret, "grief more anguished and sorrow more profound," as he put it.
It is a film to induce exhilaration along with a tiny, acute stab of regret.
"Nebraska," like all of Payne's movies ("The Descendants," "Sideways" among them), blends many comic moments with scenes of acute yearning and regret.
(Twitter exploded. "What's the German word for 'acute regret over missed celeb sighting'?" wrote the essayist Sloane Crosley, who was in the restaurant at the time but somehow missed seeing them).
(No, I haven't read Thomas Mann's tetralogy, "Joseph and His Brothers" — to my acute and, on deadline, irremediable regret. Note to friends: please stop telling me how wonderful it is!) The show enthralls in numerous ways.
Here, away from the public eye, he articulates acute emotional intelligence and deep regret as he recounts the way his calling has denied his children a normal family life.
And when a diagnosis is missed – when a student proceeds directly into college coursework and fails, or when someone's cancer is detected too late – the mistake is plainly visible, and the associated regret can be acute.
Leithauser has penned handfuls of songs about settling down, many of them sceptical about whether it's possible to change, but as the band have married and moved apart (Peter Bauer, Matt Barrick and Maroon have kids and Leithauser's first is on the way) he's become an acute observer of doubt and regret, redeemed by an optimistic streak.
MATS HUMMELS (Germany) As far as regret goes, Bayern Munich must be suffering from an acute case with regards to the decision to let Mats Hummels join Borussia Dortmund in 2009.
Despite acute tensions on markets, policy makers argue that the crisis is not as acute as it seems, and they refuse to be rushed into making decisions they might later regret.
