Sentence examples for but lamentable from inspiring English sources

For people who want Jesus to be just a person and not God incarnate, it's also understandable but lamentable that they would seize on every opportunity to emphasize his personhood, and thereby diminish his divinity.

If the bathetic conclusion of the epilogue disappoints, it is unsurprising but nonetheless lamentable.

But this lamentable workaholism is also the reason it won't happen.

But some lamentable hiring practices have been stubbornly persistent, and statistically transparent.

I've no idea where those prejudices came from, but how lamentable, how ignorant, they seem now.

A lesser but still lamentable obstacle is the mind-set of some conservative politicians who believe that the government should not worry too much about preserving its pre-Islamic heritage because that heritage contradicts Muslim beliefs.

But most lamentable was the group from the Southern African Development Community, an influential club of 14 countries, which, with South Africa to the fore, had led diplomatic efforts to solve the Zimbabwe crisis but which had failed repeatedly over the years to upbraid Mr Mugabe for flouting most of the SADC's own election tenets.

"Flatness," for Sousanis's purposes, is not the quality of abstraction that Clement Greenberg lauded in modern art, but the lamentable condition of the inhabitants of Edwin A. Abbott's "Flatland": the inability to understand that there might be more than one can immediately perceive.

But with lamentable timing, the Britons paired taxing pasties with a 50%to45%5% tax cut for top income earners.

But one lamentable legacy of the trial was the chilling effect it had on cameras — still and video — in courtrooms across the country.

But not as lamentable as Disaster Movie.