Sentence examples for heavy regret from inspiring English sources

He announced that – to his heavy regret, naturally – his party had refused his resignation, and he was back.

But the novels have always made it clear that Rebus remains a policeman because there is nothing else he can bear to be - he has failed in spells as husband, father, even, perhaps, as human being - and so Exit Music is underscored with a double line of heavy regret, Rebus wanting to go no more than the reader wishes him to.

It's not only heavy regrets and lofty dreams that preoccupy us.

Big regret".

That story describes her last visit to Duncan's bedside, and is heavy with regret: "[She] sat rather rigidly in the rocking chair, unable, for the wrong reasons, to make small talk.

The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously.

To this day I cannot watch those films without a heavy heart and regret that I never believed his story about Mussolini's violin.

But as we gradually come to understand, Laszlo did not escape from Budapest in 1956 a completely free man; indeed, he brought with him a heavy burden of regret for his actions during the revolution.

Arsenal 2-2 Man City: in pictures By the end, there was unmistakable disappointment on Arsène Wenger's face and a heavy sense of regret engulfing the stands about Arsenal's failure to capitalise on those goals from Jack Wilshere and, brilliantly, Alexis Sánchez that had turned the game upside down in 11 second-half minutes.

Though there is never any doubt as to whether the title character, a rather spineless young man raised in a strict Hasidic community, will be able to resist the lure of secular New York City, Mr. Vardy resists mocking the way of life Mendy is leaving behind and forces him to carry a heavy sackful of regret for most of the way.

"Muslim students in the UK are amongst the most active campaigners amongst the student body and it is something we will continue organizing against I am sure, but it will be accompanied by the heavy burden of regret".