Sentence examples similar to a lamentable quality from inspiring English sources

A senate committee in 1977 referred to the "drug problem problem", meaning the lamentable quality of the debate about drug policy.

Next, he discussed the lamentable quality of digital music.

He never really warms up after that, and the idea that a lead character should consist of a mixture of admirable and lamentable qualities is now apparently as quaint as "Wiseguy's" early attempts at serialization.

I can understand the rationale for many of grad school's lamentable qualities.

These articles have a breathless quality to them but there's usually a lamentable line or two about the unaffordability of housing for first time home buyers.

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.