'If I felt that I could actually get the orchestra to snort speed and smash up their instruments,' says Ulrich, a little regretfully, 'I would.' 'I bet you if we take 'em on tour,' leers Hetfield, 'they'll fall under the wheel.
The scene where Tony regretfully chooses to kill César for his betrayal of the thieves' code of silence was filmed as an allusion to how Dassin and others felt after finding their contemporaries willing to name names in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Much that is written these days about what are regretfully called "relationships" feels overly processed, with emotions filtered bloodlessly through irony, or diverted into easy sentimentality.
She told me, regretfully, that she doesn't feel she can meet regularly anymore with people in business and finance who make a living predicting what the Fed will do, because she can't control what they might report about the conversation.
This is why I must regretfully return your card and gift; I just don't feel comfortable keeping them.
Don't you ever feel not up to it?" "Not up to it?" "Guilty," said Eileen, persistently though regretfully.
"At this moment, however, I feel my priority needs to be writing rather than acting, and so I've declined, regretfully, to join them on the project.
"We learned this too late to remove the costumes from consideration by the nominators, but feel that we cannot allow the designs to remain in contention this year, and we must regretfully withdraw them from consideration as a nominee in the best costume design of a musical category," according to the statement.
If he could only describe for us the wild pleasure he feels — the allure of the forbidden struggling against morality and sense — then the movie would transcend its comic-book origins and become a kind of tragic fable of id released and regretfully tamed.
If that feels like an uncomfortably self-pitying way to write about a happy marriage – measuring his partner's worth by his own inadequacy – then at least White seems aware of his solipsism: a song called The Martyr picks regretfully at his own self-absorption, his refusal to let things go.
