Sentence examples for but deplorable from inspiring English sources

This is totally understandable as an instinct, but deplorable when that instinct kills children.

But I'd also be delighted by adaptations of some of the well-written "space operas" out there just waiting to be filmed, rather than the slick but deplorable, formulaic sludge that gets made.

It's been most socially useful where every fifth unit in luxury housing went to low-income tenants, but deplorable when it allowed developers to put their cheap housing all together in less desirable neighbourhoods far from the city's centre.

But, he added, "I maintain that there is more substance and true invention in the aria 'La donna e mobile,' for example, in which this elite saw nothing but deplorable facility, than in the rhetoric and vociferations of the 'Ring.' " I disagree with Stravinsky about Wagner's "Ring" cycle.

But, he added, "I maintain that there is more substance and true invention in the aria 'La donna è mobile,' for example, in which the elite saw nothing but deplorable facility, than in the rhetoric and vociferations of the 'Ring.' " Take that, Wagner.

The man told the paper he respected the result of the EU referendum, but he added: "It is not only sad, but deplorable, that a criminal minority feel that they have been emboldened by the result to abuse others with brainless, racist bile that has no place in any civilised community".

But the deplorable 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, stands in the way of full benefits like health care coverage and off-base housing allowances.

The anti-scouse barb is undeniably crass, but the deplorable language used to stereotype different types of "working class" people is arguably more invidious; it's straight out of the divide-and-rule school of snide, dishonest class-based discrimination.

Most of the other evidence offered by conspiratorialists is not about Category 5 — outright theft — but Category 4: strategic, purposeful, deplorable, but not illegal voter discouragement.

They did compliment Team Canada on their defensive skills but felt that the Soviets were technically superior, and, but for some deplorable mistakes by their players, the Soviets would have won the series.

It is deplorable, but at least it is obvious.