Sentence examples similar to a lamentable attempt from inspiring English sources

Even the Rolling Stones released a lamentable disco attempt, "Hot Stuff", in 1976.

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.

More recent attempts have shown a lamentable lack of imagination when it comes to exploring the orchestra's expressive potential: Nero's recent Dubstep Symphony for Radio 1 had the BBC Philharmonic robotically layering repetitive motifs and sound effects that belong more to laptop and keyboard than to an expressive body of virtuoso players.

Even Best Bus attempted to drum up some business with a lamentable reference to the Australian road-trip film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, complete with an afflicted rag doll and a used-car-lot windsock flapping in the warm summer breeze atop their bus.

Desperate to keep it from the news media and self-serving in their attempts to deal with the problem on campus, the administrators display a lamentable lack of knowledge about the life of the student receiving the notes.

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.

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