One of the few aspects to deplore about British journalism – which is the best in the world, even allowing for the controversies engulfing it over the past few years – is the tendency to look at everything through our end of the telescope.
What do you think future generations will deplore about our behaviour today?
What will our own descendants deplore about us that we take for granted?
And this new model will surely exacerbate something I deplore about photojournalism: it is increasingly a community of privileged white people.
Although he says he shared many of the administration's concerns on this issue, he "deplored the way the White House went about fixing the problem".
A manic wielder of the house slipper, given to purple rages, Twyne deplored almost everything about the modern world except games.
Here he has no compunction about deploring the extreme degradation of industrial workers in his century, freely citing several French and other writers who make the same point in vivid detail.
Oz still retains an extraordinary roundedness about these confrontations - deploring the casualties, wry about the media's power to organise events here as in other conflicts, keeping his lines open to his friends 'on the other side'.
Asked about violence in Bahrain, Mrs Clinton said: "We deplore the use of force against demonstrators, and we deplore the use of force by demonstrators.
