Sentence examples for regretted rather than from inspiring English sources
Some discussions of double effect wrongly assume that it permits acts that cause certain kinds of harm because those harms were not the agent's ultimate aim or were regretted rather than welcomed.
Justin Chadwick's film about Nelson Mandela tries to capture its subject's yearnings and regrets rather than just portraying him as the visionary and magnanimous "great man of history" who guided South Africa out of the apartheid era.
When you've done something you regret, rather than cry, show you're sorry by changing your actions.
When I bought a new electronic device, I was often filled with regret rather than joy.
He contemplates Japan's wartime experience with regret, rather than indignation.
For the observation is offered in a spirit of journalistic regret rather than jingoistic complacency.
"It was disgraceful to speak of regret rather than to apologise," Beckles said.
According to a new study, self-compassion may help us benefit from regret rather than wallowing in it.
The mood of Enquirer is one of regret rather than indignation, a plangent evocation of the end of an era.
He did so with regret rather than relish, a subtlety that escaped the league lovers who attacked him.
I promise to make you the sole repository of my regrets, rather than distribute them widely through multiple affairs and a life of sexual Don Juanism.
