Sentence examples for alas timely from inspiring English sources

He becomes one of those loathsome yet familiar (and, alas, timely) creatures a resentful rich man whose bitter wrath unleashes horrors.

In her first novel, "Martyrs' Crossing," she confronts the fraught political complexities of that country -- complexities that are, alas, all too timely -- and endeavors to render them with a literary rather than a journalistic eye.

This reaction is catalyzed by ALA synthase (ALAS).

Alas, alas!

This exhibition is not the easiest spectacle around, especially at the dawn of a new millennium, but alas it is all too timely.

The title of the conference asks an excellent question (that's it at the top of this post), a question that, alas, will probably always be timely.

How timely!

And timely.

Sounds timely.

But alas, prematurely, and alas, disastrously.

ALAS, poor Goethe.