Later historian William Laird Clowes, writing in 1900, agreed with James' assessment, commenting that "This action serves to again illustrate the lamentable decline in British gunnery".
There are a few examples of the genre that manage to lift themselves beyond the lamentable: Start Again, regrettably, isn't one of them.
On the field, the threat from Streller increased after the interval and Liverpool's defending at a set piece was lamentable once again when they deservedly fell behind.
I've said before, and say again, this is truly a lamentable divergence from the True Teaching, Practice and Realization of the Pure Land Way that Shinran has provided us all.
Their interminable winter wanderings have seen Test defeat by Sri Lanka, Test victory over New Zealand (who they face again this month at home), and the usual lamentable groundhog one-dayers.
Rushdie was at it again in his most recent book, Fury, a lamentable novel that combined hysterical realism - dolls, puppets, allegories, a coup on a Fiji-like island, rampant and tiresome caricature, and a noisy, clumsy prose - with the more traditional social novel.
In his only major starring role, Get Rich... he pretty much played himself, in the newsroom comedy Morning Glory he did play himself, Righteous Kill saw him play a drug dealer who meets with an untimely death, and Joel Schumacher's lamentable Twelve found him selling drugs once again.
Again a jury was selected, again Kelli Peters cried, again Kent Easter told his lamentable story.
Recently, I listened to my learned friend give a lecture about the lamentable fact that the military had to overthrow an elected government in Egypt, but again, he confidently asserted that it was necessary to avert a geo-political disaster.
After a dozen years of study my own comprehension of Judaic law was a lamentable pastiche, a crazy-quilt of slogans and exhortations, easily remembered, easily ignored - Never Again!
She said, laughing, "Maybe one of the best things about being married to Ted was that I got to play him in a movie!" "Monster-in-Law" and the lamentable 2007 comedy "Georgia Rule," which co-starred Lindsey Lohan, allowed Fonda to think about acting again.
