Sentence examples for deplore as from inspiring English sources

It is a good example of what I deplore as "government by Twitter": knee-jerk and shallow.

In this light, what Ogletree and Bell deplore as the failed promise of Brown would seem to be a result of presidential decisions.

This is not just any Planned Parenthood; it's the Margaret Sanger Center, the epicenter of what abortion's fiercest opponents deplore as a vast, blood-soaked conspiracy.

Like the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts that presumably inspired the project, the NT Live series is not something I deplore as a desecration of the art form.

Truman, who could not afford to lose Mrs. Roosevelt in mid-campaign, wrote back immediately: "I should deplore as calamitous your withdrawal...

18) notes: "Much of what is ordinarily appealed to in ranking objects for amusement is…not obviously relevant to this issue [of comic evaluation]; for instance jokes that one may deplore as being 'in bad taste' (usually on moralistic grounds) are not thereby shown not to be extremely funny".

Some liberals acknowledged in recent days that they were willing to accept policies they once would have deplored as long as they were in Mr. Obama's hands, not Mr. Bush's.

But even before then, his personal politics made him a lightning rod, and he soon became known as the company's "house liberal," an epithet he deplored as unfair.

Clemens's friend William Dean Howells, to be sure, was also a friend of Edith Wharton's friend Henry James (who didn't care for Clemens nor Clemens for him), but Howells spurned the overtures of H. L. Mencken's friend Theodore Dreiser, whose bodacious improprieties in life and art Howells deplored (as did Mencken, eventually).

For example, is the distance that separates us from these systems we deplore really as great as we believe?

"You can deplore to me as much as you like, mother," says John, her dutiful son.