Sentence examples similar to a lamentable action from inspiring English sources

As an adult, he remembered Edward Alleyn's Tamburlaine, "stalking" the stage like "spindle-shank spiders" on a ceiling; described the "lamentable action of one arm" of "old Titus Andronicus"; imagined "each ale-brewer" re-enacting "the Jew of Malta".

(Sissako depicts this lamentable action and the woman's steadfast endurance of her punishment).

We get a lamentable amount of authoritarian police state infrastructure and activity.

It is a "lamentable" story.

"It has been a lamentable incident.

It's a lamentable rate of failure.

A lamentable loss to a neighborhood?

Monstrous fellow who was bumped off in a lamentable fashion.

Bewailing for his lover with a lamentable whine.

And Germany's retail sector was in a lamentable state.

Max Hastings reckons he would have made a lamentable soldier.