Sentence examples for regrettable habit from inspiring English sources

The problem is that Mr. Loach and his frequent screenwriter Paul Laverty — whose strongest work remains the 2002 drama "Sweet Sixteen" — have a regrettable habit of speaking for their characters, rather than through them, which undermines their art and politics both.

"To regret everything about the past -- certainly!" The present is no picnic either, what with its habit of turning into the regrettable past.

Which was also regrettable.

COLONEL LANDA: Regrettable.

(Remarkable that, and regrettable).

This was regrettable.

That is regrettable.

This is regrettable.

That is still regrettable.

That would be regrettable".

"To the lover of nature," he wrote, "there is something regrettable in this slow extermination of an insect which presents, as does the periodical Cicada, so much that is interesting and anomalous in its habits and life history".