Sentence examples for a lamentable one from inspiring English sources

Lord Birkenhead thought that Johnson's decision to give up alcohol was a lamentable one, and his excessive use of tea must have accelerated his death from dropsy.

The tale of what Jefferies' solicitor has called his client's "monstering" is a particularly lamentable one, but the full horror failed to come across.

Illustrated with nearly 600 photographs, architectural plans, maps, and details, this impressive work of scholarship also offers an engaging narrative of the history of Baltimore itself its men and women of all stations, its taste and traditional preferences, its good choices and lamentable ones, and its built environment as a social and cultural chronicle.

A lamentable shortcoming of "One World" is its failure to dwell more on the experience of the European Union in this and other areas.

Together they have made great contributions to our cinematic library ("Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy") and lamentable ones ("Step Brothers").

Hence America's deficit is neither a "meaningless concept" nor a lamentable drain on world savings.

It was, as a Times Op-Ed said, a "lamentable" decision, and also a ludicrous one.

proved that there is a lamentable absence of malice on most nighttime television shows.

One day before Ireland's Guinness Six Nations campaign ended with a lamentable collapse in Cardiff, Leinster did their best to offer up some good news to Irish rugby fans.

If that strategy was meant to prey on Chelsea's nerves it was a lamentable failure.

It is a "lamentable" story.