Sentence examples for deplorable quality from inspiring English sources

The contrast between the deplorable quality of life in Angola and the opulence in the United States is striking.

Ali G had a kind of goofy charm, but Borat is just so horrible, with a deplorable quality mitigated only by his ineffectuality.

One special-interest group responsible for the deplorable quality of most of New York City's public schools is clearly the teachers' union, represented by Ms. Weingarten.

The earliest genuine European banks, in contrast, dealt neither in goods nor in bills of exchange but in gold and silver coins and bullion, and they emerged in response to the risks involved in storing and transporting precious metal moneys and, often, in response to the deplorable quality of available coins, which created a demand for more reliable and uniform substitutes.

I will leave whingeing about the deplorable quality of British television for another day, aside from noting that my befuddled compatriots in the United States still idolise the BBC, with which they associate quality dramas from the old Upstairs, Downstairs days.

Leaving aside the deplorable quality of some of the line decisions, which did not seem to ruin the quality of the World Cup for many people in 1966, the most serious charge that can be laid against the 2002 event is that the standard of football was not much higher than your average Champions League game.

The Batista regime exhibited all the deplorable qualities that were to become common among repressive governments across the central and Latin American region in the latter part of the 20th century – abusive, corrupt, undemocratic and fawning in their attitude towards their Washington enablers.

At the ballot box this November California voters showed that they are determined to clean up their state's deplorable air quality.

The media was to blame for the deplorable low quality of much of the campaign.

But these qualities, however deplorable, need not interfere with acceptable service on the Supreme Court, where lying is seldom advantageous, weakness of character can coexist comfortably with a tendency to advance justice (as long as no personal cost is involved), and brownnosing is received, not administered.

Why is DCPS the only school district in the country accruing this kind of a deficit due to food services, especially when the food quality is so deplorable?