The level of realism delivered by "Secrets of Ecstasy '72," according to one advertisement, meant that "you can almost feel the pulsing warmth," but the faint regret in that "almost" is fleshed out by an interview that Ray Zone conducted with Arnold Herr, who shot 3-D porno films, mostly in the nineteen-seventies, for a company called Deep Vision.
A famous recipe by Williams Carlos Williams is simple: cold plums, nicked from the ice box, and very faint, barely registered regret.
Hilary Mantel's win comes with just the faintest twinge of regret from those of us who have always regarded her as our secret.
A Briefly Noted review detected in the book the faintest whiff of regret: Interestingly, given what Black refers to in the acknowledgments as his own "serious judicial problems," he argues that Nixon's best move in Watergate would have been to surreptitiously delete damaging parts of the tapes and then make up a cover story — "whatever he wanted".
But one of Mr. Glasser's legacies is that after having taken over at a time of financial crisis, in the aftermath of the group's defense of the right of Nazis to march in the heavily Jewish community of Skokie, Ill., he leaves a smoothly running, financially strong organization that he says (with the faintest hint of regret) will get along just fine without him.
LONG WINTERS and OKKERVIL RIVER -- Every time I've listened to the electro-rock rave-up "Dance Macabre" by the Faint over the last two years, I've regretted not listing it in my top 10 in 2001.
YOU can almost sense faint embarrassment, perhaps even a hint of regret, when Europe's co-operative banks talk about "earnings".
It was at this time that I first interviewed him for the Observer, a brief encounter now freighted in my mind with delight, sadness, and regret mingled with a fugitive, faint memory of some lovely ironies.
It may be business related, work related, church or socially related, but whatever the reason, be sure it's not tinged with regret for "what could have been" or involve any faint hope of rekindling something more than friendship.
Dr. Lieber said he regretted being an only child and having only faint memories of his family gatherings in Antwerp before the Holocaust.
I relished the faint smokiness of my tender pan-roasted applewood-smoked duck breast, but regretted the finger-thick slabs that were served, mostly because they contained so much fatty skin.
