Sentence examples for sharp regret from inspiring English sources

The president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, in Washington for a meeting in the White House with European Union officials, expressed sharp regret Thursday that Israel had not allowed the fact-finding mission to proceed.

HOBOKEN - WHEN I left Cucharamama after my second visit under standard practice, my last -- I felt a sharp pang of regret.

"In a way, I'm going backwards...because the getting to know him makes it sharper, makes the regret deeper.

The celebrities turn a little paler, suffering, I guess, a particularly sharp version of that regret one often feels for a "yes" too casually given three or four months earlier.

The regret seems sharpest when she writes about putting her family in the public eye.

But sharp-eyed Algonquin devotees forever regret the changes.

Mr. Kaira expressed regret for his sharp-tongued attacks and offered his congratulations.

She'd get over all this, presumably; or at least one day it would become a wistful regret, rather than a sharp hunger.But this holiday hadn't been designed to comfort her.

As for love, James knows all about its fumbles and swift embarrassments, and the sharp bites inflicted by both hope and regret; in this, he reminds me much of that great understander of love, Turgenev.

Grief: A sharp and painful experience of loss and regret, often as the result of the death of a person or group of people.

The sense of regret in this picture is stabbingly sharp, reflecting the mood of an outcast artist who was a Song loyalist in Mongol times.