Sentence examples for private regret from inspiring English sources

Her role in that disaster is still a matter of public controversy and private regret.

"I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed," Mr Fairbanks later recalled in one of the few published remarks that revealed a private regret in what he portrayed as a blissful life.Because of Hollywood's reputation as a city of sin, anyone closely identified with the place is assumed to be a sinner.

The Innocent is muted and sparse in detail, written in trimmed prose, marked by private regret and a controlled laconicism that is shown to be in keeping with how personal emotion becomes a victim to self-censorship in states of repression.

They were about being haunted by private regrets and restless musical ghosts.

One of my poignant private regrets when he departed was the same one I felt when Nikita Khrushchev stepped down: I knew how to spell their names without looking.

In a tone of jocularity that in no way corresponds to his private meditative regret, Mr. Sargent tries to interest his daughter, Ruth, in taking on the collection -- she who, to her parents' distress, left her husband and children years earlier to live with her female lover in California.

Hogan-Howe has met both of them in private to express "regret about the distress felt".

In public US officials adopted a neutral stance, but in private there is regret that the elections proved inconclusive, with divisions and deadlock on the Palestinian side now replicated on the Israeli side.

Social emotions operate differently from private ones: while regret (private loss) looms larger than relief (private gain)[2], [3], gloating (social gain) looms larger than envy (social loss) (Fig. 6).

The second result is that social emotions operate differently from private ones: while regret looms larger than relief, gloating looms larger than envy.

"I regret that private conversations become public because they can hurt others we would never want to reach," he said.