Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet REGRETTING

Definition av REGRETTING

1. böjningsform av regret
2. presensparticip av regret

Exempel på hur man kan använda REGRETTING i en mening

• At the age of twenty he published a series of apologetic studies on the Montagnards — in later years, regretting his youthful enthusiasm, he attempted to destroy the studies.
• In the Russian Constitution of 1906 the tsar, regretting his 'moment of weakness' when signing the October Manifesto, retained the title of autocrat and maintained his unique dominating position in relation to the Russian Church.
• Anderson called the adaptation "execrable"; the author Baird Searles called it an "abomination" and an attempt that had "failed miserably", regretting the quality of the animation and of the soundtrack, and the omission of key plot points.
• I have not his work now—somehow it got lost; but I remember poring over those incomplete messes, over and over again in my childhood, and many a night I kept awake regretting their incompleteness and thinking what might have been their conclusion if finished.
• John Summerson described the book as "a useful and nearly complete, guide to the new buildings of George IV's London", while regretting that it was written "in the style of a facetious cicerone".
• He continues his soliloquy with contemplating her whereabouts, jealously wondering who she may be with tonight ("Is it Christopher, Oliver, Mortimer, Manfred, Chuck, Tommy, or Dominic?"), and regretting that he is married to Sally rather than her.
• Timid Beth is horrified and absconds, regretting his rashness he then gifts her a nice piano as an apology.
• Marnie, regretting what she said to the council, wants to cancel the program she has made, but her grandmother Aggie opposes, saying that they have nothing to fear.
• The Pakistani Catholic Bishops' Conference denounced the act and asked that the Government bring the culprits to justice, regretting that "the Christian community has been terrorized and frightened by a small group of miscreants to make them believe that Christians are in fact second-class citizens of Pakistan and will remain so".
• Initially, it is not an ideal arrangement for any of them, and Missie, - regretting her dead Mother who as she says to her "was the prettiest thing you've ever saw, everybody said so" - resents Marty for attempting to encourage more feminine behavior from her.
• The review in Queen's Quarterly started by saying that the book "might equally well have been entitled Champlain Taken Down off His Monument and Made Human"; regretting that Canadian historians approached figures such as Champlain with humility, even servility; whereas Bishop was able to do so with "good-humoured intimacy"—the result was a "charming book".
• Claude is nonchalant, regretting only the business he will lose, since Flannagan is a well-known international playboy with a long history of casual affairs.
• Adrian Reimers, a Catholic theological critic and pioneering member of People of Praise from 1971 until his dismissal from the group in 1985, has criticized teachings of People of Praise that he views as authoritarian and male-gender centric and criticized its overall ecclesiastic structure, regretting its sense of primacy vis-à-vis the Church owing to the group's ecumenical nature and in turn its lack of direct oversight by professional Catholic clergy.
• The trio, regretting using cliches in their band name (claiming that "Los" (The) in a rock-band name was overused), often brainstormed random words and wrote them down, a university pastime for Cerati and Bosioeventually coming up with Soda Stereo, thanks in part to Cerati's excessive soda consumption during band rehearsals.
• Plot: A hungry hippopotamus greedily overindulges at a restaurant, and ends up regretting it, when he's trapped by his enlarged gut.
• Found out about Dazhong's death and returned to Taiwan to pay his last respects while at the same time regretting about imparting wrong values in disciplining Dazhong as a boy, not knowing that Suling was the mastermind to his murder.
• Strongly regretting that viol playing was falling out of fashion, he wrote the treatise Défense de la basse de viole contre les enterprises du violon et les prétentions du violoncelle, which was published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier in 1740.
• In the intervening days, they become frightened and solemn; on the one hand noting that there is less housecleaning, but regretting that the interlopers have prevented them from retrieving many of their personal belongings.
• Bishop Jean Vernette, appointed national secretary of French episcopate for the study of cults and new religious movements and also member of the CCMM, also complained in January 2001, regretting that "groups within Church officially recognized by the ecclesial authority", including the Community of the Beatitudes, are "wrongly" labelled as cults, and also warned against a confirmed deviance by some people, according to him, who "want to use the anti-cult fight as a rocket for an anti-religious fight", spreading "the usual thought line of the Rationalist Union, the freethought and the Freemasonry in its atheist version".
• I believe not one instance could be adduced of even the most polished and civilised of men, who had once tasted the sweets of its attendant liberty, and freedom from every worldly care, not regretting the moment when he exchanged it for the monotonous life of the settlements, nor sighing and sighing again once more to partake of its pleasures and allurements.

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