Sentence examples for alas far from inspiring English sources

It was, alas, far from an unequivocal success.

This is, alas, far less common in the staging of Shakespeare than you would assume.

And, by doing so, both actors provide a window into the mysterious, arduous art of performing, even when their performances are, alas, far superior to the material they have to work with.

The Enron collapse is emblematic of a problem that is far more imbedded, more intractable and, alas, far more universal than the board failures and malfeasance of a single company.

Paired with the Adagio from Mahler's Tenth Symphony – more of which anon – Lupu played the Brahms with as much musicality, but, alas, far more technical mistakes, than any performance I can remember.

And I also knew by now, alas, far more about divine inspiration than I dared admit, for I knew how I worked myself up into my own visions, and how frequently — indeed, incessantly — the visions God granted to me differed from the visions He granted to my father.

But, alas, being far from a big nursery or garden center poses some challenges for city stagers.

And, alas, so far they are unable or unwilling to transform their considerable economic clout into the kind of political power that stops prejudiced people from attacking those who "look" or "sound" like an unauthorized immigrant.

The relationship I had with alcohol saw plenty of wild, fun times, but at least as many spills – some significantly more dire than a splashed cabernet on carpet, though that, alas, happened far too often.

Our cockatiel Torque acted "antsy" as a sign it's time to "poop" him (Tcsh, alas, is far more subtle about it, and in fact seems to deliberately poop on his less-favorite-human - while he seems to avoid pooping on his most favored human subject).

Few governments, alas, are as far-sighted.