Although I once designed and taught a university course entitled "Topics and Problems on Humanistic and Existential Psychology," it is lamentable how much I had forgotten about existentialism and how extensively this philosophy pervades contemporary thinking and culture.
It's lamentable how little serious research has been done into this important, life-governing rule.
It's lamentable how many defective products the U.S. education industry sends out of its $660 billion factory.
It is lamentable how little is reliably known about the global impact of diseases, injuries and risk factors.
He might have gone back to prison in 1817, but fled to the US again, where he missed the sound of English birdsong and found the women beautiful, except for (how things change) the lamentable state of their teeth.
And his arrival made the Maracana forget the man who was not here - Uruguay's Luis Suarez - and his lamentable explanation of how he came to bite Giorgio Chiellini, with both him and his teeth apparently stumbling accidentally into the Italian's shoulder after a loss of balance.
Hopeful commitments, but given the past record of a lamentable lack of information about just how much oil is produced in the country, despite repeated promises to publish all the figures on the internet, no one is holding their breath.
How dare you remind the world of that lamentable time when Republicans actually courted the female vote nay, helped bring about its very existence?
The Dead inspired many lamentable bumper stickers, but one good one captured how it felt, and feels, to be under their sway: "Who are the Grateful Dead, and why do they keep following me?" The Grateful Dead occupy a curious spot in the canon.
The day had been marked by increasingly savage criticism of the Director General after a series of lamentable attempts to explain his lack of knowledge of how the situation had got so out of control.
