Sentence examples for to be regrettable from inspiring English sources
Maybe that will turn out to be regrettable.
The love-besotted Eduardo easily laughs off Eva's provocative ways, but Alfred is increasingly incensed by her comments about his life, which indeed turns out to be regrettable when he finally sees it through her pitiless eyes.
What is striking to me about Jake Halpern's Profile of Darren Wilson is that the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teen-ager, by a cop who fired ten shots into the street, is somehow considered by the Ferguson Police Department, the St . Louis CountyProsecuting Attorney, and the Justice Department to be regrettable yet unpunishable ("The Cop," August 10th & 17th).
Moreover, receiving little information about the donor during the process of treatment was retrospectively thought to be regrettable by some, whereas for others, specific information, including information about donor siblings, was now thought of as a potential intrusion into family life.
His readiness to play with tyrants, such as Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein, for the sake of showing that Russia can still make mischief if it wants to, is regrettable.Free to grow richMost troubling of all, Mr Putin seems to think that democracy and human rights must be bridled if the state is to be more efficient and order reimposed.
An affront to motherhood may be regrettable, but at least it means that a dad gets depicted as doing his share of the parenting.
That Mr. Gibson did not attempt to transcend these divisions may be regrettable, but to condemn "The Passion of the Christ" for its supposed bigotry is to miss its point and to misstate its problems.
"Their decision to withdraw is regrettable and Australia urges Japan to return to the Convention and Commission as a matter of priority," the ministers said in a statement.
That would be regrettable".
But it would be regrettable.
This to me is regrettable in a book of this length and presumed scope, because so much of the true genius of Mahler's invention lies in his astonishingly skillful manipulation of harmony, counterpoint, form and instrumentation.
