Today, he still doesn't know what most to deplore about the Americans, "their intervention or their withdrawal".
While there was indeed much to deplore about the process inflicted on IBM, most of all its grotesque length, neither assertion withstands examination.
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?
Referring to the gulf war, Hedges deplores press complaints about being "used".
In "Let's Talk About Iraq" (column, June 15), Thomas L. Friedman deplores the lack of discussion about Iraq.
You would think the one sort of invasion just about everyone deplores was hacking.
Antoni Abad i Pous, president of Cecot, an association that represents about 8,000 Catalan businesses, deplored the shortfall in Catalan infrastructure spending by Madrid.
It's an ending that Salman Rushdie, in an affectionate short book he wrote about the movie, deplores: Dorothy, he says, no longer needs the inadequate adults in her life; she's ready to go out on her own.
It follows that he has little respect for literary biography: writing about Henry James, he deplores "the gossip... that a number of industrious scholars had recently discovered a 'hurray-he's-a-gay-guy' to put alongside Proust and Wittgenstein in the alternative pantheon".
