Sentence examples for lamentable affair from inspiring English sources
A lamentable affair, but, told like that, shorn of all context, it's not unlike a song on the radio, folkloric.
Edwin Thanhouser would later describe the production as, "...a rather lamentable affair.
Sunday's defeat was a particularly lamentable 9-2 affair.
Really, this is a very lamentable state of affairs.
To call for an effort to change that lamentable state of affairs was inspiring and surely correct.
This lamentable state of affairs could have been avoided had Barack Obama complied with the United States' obligations under the UN convention against torture to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the CIA's torture programme.
To this day, Clinton refers to Obama's dithering as a historic "failure" which led to the current lamentable state of affairs.
Speaking as Mr. Arias stood behind him at a brief news conference Sunday, the chief government negotiator, Carlos López, said requiring Mr. Zelaya's restoration "is an open interference in Honduras's domestic affairs and a lamentable distortion of your role as a mediator".
"Europe's efforts to address this colossal refugee crisis have been lamentable," said Keith Vaz, the Labour MP who chairs the home affairs committee, after a year-long investigation.
"That would be lamentable".
