Sentence examples for lamentable fact from inspiring English sources

IT IS a lamentable fact that even the best men do ugly things in war.

Nothing can be done about this lamentable fact retroactively; fabricating fame for women whose names have not resonated down the ages is patronizing and paternalistic.

The article "The Nimby Effect" (Dec. 22) accurately recounted the lamentable fact that there is insufficient affordable housing throughout the county.

"It is a lamentable fact but an unavoidable truth that Australia at the moment needs the protection of its intelligence services, perhaps as never before.

What was clear to any spectator was that the only link binding her to either parent was this lamentable fact of her being a ready vessel for bitterness, a deep little porcelain cup in which biting acids could be mixed.

Both plays accept as a natural (if lamentable) fact of contemporary culture that people with limited opportunities to better their lives will settle for the temporary release that intoxicants can provide, ignoring the more destructive consequences until their capacities give out or the law catches up with them.

Whatever the explanation, the sad fact remains that never, in all probability, has so great an orchestra made so lamentable an exhibition of itself".

To its advocates the center would be a natural development, an effort to remember and understand a lamentable, often forgotten fact: that in the two years after Germany's defeat in 1945, ethnic Germans were forced to leave countries where they and their ancestors had lived, in some instances for centuries, and resettle in Germany itself.

In fact, The Most Lamentable Tragedy's copious notes may well be more copious than any before them: over on the website Genius.com, the band have posted 145 annotations to the album's lyrics.

In later life, Darwin said that he regretted that his mind had become "a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts" and that this had led to the "lamentable loss of the higher aesthetic tastes".

I can live with the unattributed quotations, random snatches of verse, a lamentable index … I do, however, wish she had checked her facts".