Sentence examples for merely regrettable from inspiring English sources

White bigotry is merely regrettable.

Among the poor, cohabitation is seen as normal and single parenthood merely regrettable.

More unbearable to contemplate was the corollary: "Low status came to seem not merely regrettable but also deserved".

Each dead Pashtun is not a talisman of success, as Nato press releases claim, nor is each civilian killed merely "regrettable".

Low status then comes to seem not merely regrettable, but also deserved.A solution to spiralling desires and expectations perhaps lies in the recognition that wealth does not involve having many things.

The rich were not only wealthier, it seemed; they might also be plain better". More unbearable to contemplate was the corollary: "Low status came to seem not merely regrettable but also deserved". In such a world, of course, status anxiety runs rampant.

"Not unusual, but regrettable".

"Cogan's Trade" contains scenes of brutal violence, but Higgins dispenses with them succinctly, as if they were merely the regrettable but necessary outcomes of conversations.

v. Casey, It would be unfortunate, however, if those who disagree with the result were induced to regard it as merely a regrettable misapplication of Casey.

But our "regrettable turnover" decreased significantly.

"Extensive misrepresentation of the nature of pit bulls is not merely unfair, but also has regrettable consequences," says Scotlund Haisley, who was charged with caring for and helping to rehabilitate 11 of the dogs, as then-director of the Washington Animal Rescue League.