Sentence examples similar to ostensibly regretful from inspiring English sources

The word "regret" is particularly regretful.

I still have regrets; I'm a regretful person.

Even regretful.

And disappointed and regretful.

I do feel regretful".

"[I feel] remorseful, regretful.

Ostensibly prompted by a writerly desire to set out formative influences on his 'ways of seeing', A Writer's People soon climbs to the familiar Naipaul tone of regretful pusillanimity, the snarkiness of the elder literary statesman.

I feel regretful.

She seems embarrassed, regretful.

The drivers were regretful, surprised.

Ostensibly this aids transparency.