Sentence examples for lamentable figure from inspiring English sources
The business tycoon or law partner who cheats people and runs out on his wife may be viewed as a successful man of the world, but the Christian perceives him, sub specie aeternitatis as a truly lamentable figure.
In the past decade or so, there has been a lamentable decline in the number of labs doing telomere research in ciliates.
As a figure of international repute, his loss is lamentable, and was greeted instantly with fury and sadness (directed at ENO's board) by some of the company's greatest vocal stars.
NASSCOM's Mr Karnik blames the varying standards of tertiary education concealed by these figures: one-fifth world-class, one-fifth passable and three-fifths lamentable.
Parling has seemingly established himself as a central figure in head coach Stuart Lancaster's new-look England set-up following a lamentable Word Cup campaign, and is looking to cap an extraordinary domestic season by winning the Premiership final against Harlequins on Saturday.
These figures are merely indicative, and their use here is to fill a lamentable informational void due to the collective failure of the mainland government and its international collaborators, as a result of an appreciation deficit of the pastoral fauna as the foundational livelihood activity in Soqotra as well as a key enabler of the island's biodiversity preservation.
"That would be lamentable".
"The result was lamentable.
