Sentence examples for of being sorry from inspiring English sources

THANKS go to Gov. Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey for this week's lesson on the sorry state of being sorry in America.

One reads Cardinal Edward Egan's interview in Connecticut magazine with sadness — largely because of the absence of words of sorrow, or really any pretense of being sorry about the Church's priest sex-abuse scandal.

One might also point to "Reindeer Games," last year's movie about an ex-con manipulated into participating in a Christmas Eve casino robbery, in which Charlize Theron may have had occasion to experience the redemptive act of being sorry for her lying, cheating, thieving, murdering ways before she met her well-deserved demise.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin February 8 , 2012One reads Cardinal Edward Egan's interview in Connecticut magazine with sadness — largely because of the absence of words of sorrow, or really any pretense of being sorry about the Church's priest sex-abuse scandal.

Ah yes, but then there are those pesky other feelings that ride on the coattails of being sorry; regret, and we all know that regret is the evil twin to guilt and guilt is shrouded by the King of your internal fiefdom, Ego.

Dear Children of the World, As I sit to write to you the only word that I can think of is sorry.

We feel it is demanded of us to be sorry and attentive when someone is ill.

"I'm just tired of, 'I'm sorry,' in general, in life," she says.

Despite your suffering, England's still And only some of us are sorry.

Few of us are sorry to see the Met's old "Fidelio" go.

Something along the lines of: "I'm sorry but I won't be able to watch her on weekends anymore.