The truth is as murky as George's photographs, which have a regrettable tendency of fading to black soon after development.
Just like the alchemists of old, scientists have a regrettable tendency to "vaile their secrets with mistie speech".
Pointing toward interesting problems and promptly running away is a regrettable tendency of "Better Living Through Criticism".
Over the years, there has been an understandable though regrettable tendency to give every umpire, even the least competent, the opportunity to work a World Series.
In India, we have a regrettable tendency to treat laws as mere suggestions, like worthy advice from a grandmother – to be followed in theory and ignored in practice.
There's been a regrettable tendency among liberals to write off Trump supporters as utterly irredeemable – bigots we can never hope to understand, much less change.
He also has a regrettable tendency towards sonorous potted history: "The Great War had concussed the world … Europe was a crucible of bones".
And I see in him a regrettable tendency that I had as the father of young kids, which was, when feeling inadequate, to err in the direction of buying stuff.
