Now deploring the world under his birth name and maintaining an equally sparse, lo-fi country-folk instrumentation, he still spins heartbreak.
Over the past five years Mr Osborne (who in 2008 pledged to match the Labour spending plans that he now deplores as spendthrift) has performed an ideological grand jeté.
Mr. Giuliani saw nothing wrong with enlisting socialized health insurance to rescue an old friend, an approach that Mr. Giuliani, as presidential candidate, now deplores as "socialized" medicine.
Furthermore, unity, or organic form, as it was called, was being upheld as an ideal, and components that worked against unity — for example, ballets, with pretty girls in tutus, in the middle of tragic operas — were now deplored.
Ms Banon's lawyer, David Koubbi, said this week that she was intending to press charges against Mr Strauss-Kahn.Parts of the French media are now deploring their own failure to pursue Ms Banon's allegation and other tales about politicians.
He could have added that his wife, Rachel Whetstone, is an ex-spad who went on to be a PR chief for Google (and now Uber) – just the sort of multinationals whose lobbying clout he now deplores.
Arun Gawali, self-consciously costumed in the homespun cotton that was the trademark of India's great pacifist, Mohandas K. Gandhi, admitted in an interview to a criminal past that he now deplores, but denied any part in the audacious blazes of gunfire that have rat-a-tat-tatted a message of fear across this city of more than 10 million.
After creating one of the most powerful media empires in the world, Ted Turner (No. 118) now deplores media consolidation.
In his final speech, he said it was time to get away from the things in the past that everyone now deplored.
