At the same time, nowadays regretfully we see that many of the United States' friends in the Middle East are undemocratic countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, elsewhere.
I'm sure his friends and colleagues would love to join Richard in celebrating his newly found professional and personal health; but, regretfully, after seeing him callously slag everyone he mentions in this interview (Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Chicago, Peter McIan, CBS and Capitol), he seems to be able to enjoy his current success and self-satisfaction only at the expense of others.
Regretfully, I don't see much of that here in the U.S. Bush's position has distanced the U.S. from many of its traditional allies, who despite differences among themselves, managed to hammer out an agreement last week in Bonn.
Life intervened, and regretfully, Wendy and I didn't see much of each other for some time.
And as Burnette -- who has the ponytail and the self-esteem surplus characteristic of installation artists everywhere -- wishes aloud that the people living in his house hadn't put those big ficus trees near the window (they mess up, he says regretfully, "the apparent thinness of light supporting space"), you see how high-concept residential architecture can become a kind of shotgun marriage.
("We used to have huge bushes here once, but then we had a girl raped behind them, so we had to have them removed," Mr. G says regretfully. "Chopped down. And as you can see, the kids have done an anti-rape mural behind, which is nice").
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us".
After a few months of wallowing in the misery of my own making, I discovered the truth in the words of Alexander Graham Bell, "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us".
To them I say, regretfully, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
I found Voigt's interpretation of Brünnhilde, as a playful, willful and ultimately disobedient and disowned daughter, to be so moving and convincing that tears streamed down my face when Wotan regretfully took his leave of her in the last act, saying that she would never see him again.
