Do you ever regret Hear'say?
Frances noticed that the language Frank used didn't sound like him; she knew that something terrible was going to happen in the story, something Frances would regret having heard.
The New Yorker, April 16 , 1927P. 17 We regret to hear that theatres are being padlocked for a year after showing a naughty play.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, April 16 , 1927P. 17 We regret to hear that theatres are being padlocked for a year after showing a naughty play.
George's generous Grandmama buys him an "Immense BALLOON," which explodes, killing or maiming most of the household staff, "While George, who was in part to blame / Received, you will regret to hear / A nasty lump behind the ear".
I wonder if he has any regrets on hearing this.
At that far end of the Asian immigrant narrative, however, I will readily admit that I cannot help but feel a certain twinge of guilt and regret upon hearing my mother's question to Aunty.
This will be difficult---Americans prize free speech, everyone's speech, as an elemental right---but the Charleston massacre makes a powerful case: Two friends of the shooter now express regret that, hearing the shooter's wild fantasies earlier, they did not stop him.
He said he regretted not having heard Elmer Bernstein's memorable theme for "Magnificent Seven" while the film was being shot.
WASHINGTON — A day after a dramatic, nationally televised hearing that pitted Roger Clemens against his former personal trainer and Democrats against Republicans, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Thursday that he regretted holding the hearing in the first place.
