Sentence examples for lamentable cases from inspiring English sources

And there were lamentable cases of self-destruction, as with the pathbreaking alto saxophonist Charlie Parker.

Recently, researchers in Finland made the discovery that some people's bodies do not respond as expected to weight training, others don't respond to endurance exercise and, in some lamentable cases, some don't respond to either.

Incarcerating females is often simply a lamentable case of victimising the victimised.

"Taking Woodstock" just felt slight, but the red-and-ebony Shanghai spy movie "Lust, Caution" was a lamentable case: a great idea, but filled with pointless elaboration and unnecessary sequences.

It is in the interests of preserving and perpetuating the singular genius and purposefully scandalous Orton sensibility to put off a critical consideration of the George Street production, which suffers a most lamentable case of the blahs.

But in order to do so, business elites need to understand what is happening, how we got to where we are, what steps might be taken towards a more cohesive world than is the lamentable case at present.

I think the ­process that was followed in this case was lamentable".

"The other lamentable aspect of this case is the horror of some of the so-called screening camps which, in my judgement, now present a state of affairs so deplorable that they should be investigated without delay," said Col Young.

There had been concern about continuing with the old Nimrods, so a Nimrod Safety Case was prepared between 2001 and 2005, involving the manufacturers BAE, the analysts from Qinetiq (a former government research agency), and signed off by the MoD – of which Haddon-Cave said: "The safety case was a lamentable job from start to finish.

Mr Ruto's lawyer Karim Khan described the prosecution's case as "a lamentable shambles" and "parody of justice".

In any case, the Florida law folks agree that the situation is "lamentable" for scholars who face litigious literary behemoths.