Sentence examples for lamentable as from inspiring English sources

But not as lamentable as Disaster Movie.

Lamentable as it may be, the Taliban have a constituency which will not be rapidly eroded by the gradual improvements in Mr Karzai's administration that his sponsors are pushing for.All the same, the timing of these talks may seem odd.

But, as bad as the decision to fire Comey was, and as lamentable as Trump's attempted defenestration of Sessions is, the President may be heading toward even more dramatic departures from American norms in the near future.

Louis Van Gaal's achievement in getting them to third in the world looks much more remarkable than his failure to reach the World Cup in 2002, which was not as lamentable as this latest failure.

In announcing his support of the declaration of Pius XII and John Paul II as saints Papa Ratzinger is merely showing his own political preferences, lamentable as they may appear to some in the pews.

Even when her sister Beatrice is afflicted with cholera and it seems like she might die, Margaret remains oddly detached, regarding this lamentable event as "interesting as well as sad".

It provided millions of Americans with excuses for their own bad habits and lamentable behaviors, as well as opportunities for redemption -- all of which were denied to people in prison or on death row.

Almost nothing has been said, though, about Mayor Daley's lamentable role as an enabler of torture by Chicago police officers under the command of convicted former Police Commander Jon Burge.

It's a remarkable turnaround for the artist and her agenda that underscores a recent and ongoing transformation: the open, cosmopolitan world that progressives assumed would be the natural corollary of globalization has been stopped in its tracks by such lamentable phenomena as Trump and Brexit.

A Financial Times article from 2013 described the performance of international oil and gas companies as "lamentable from a shareholder perspective" over the last decade.

An election in which both candidates are acknowledged to be lamentable and defective is as good a measure as any of a polity that's fast becoming ungovernable, and at the same time is a formula for worse things to come.