Sentence examples for lamentable for from inspiring English sources

All that is fine and well, if lamentable for the characters; our loss is that Laura isn't believable.

Was he lamentable for still believing that a Communist state could ultimately exist, free from the corruption which plagues all systems, to the benefit of a fair, just society?

The loss of biodiversity affects human welfare as well as being lamentable for its own sake.

For me, a "sad good" is a very slippery slope that sets a lamentable precedent for opening the door for the more widespread "experimental killing" of barred owls and other species.

A "sad good" is a very slippery slope that sets a lamentable precedent for opening the door for the more widespread "experimental killing" of barred owls and other species just to see if it works.

Silvio Berlusconi's announcement last week that he plans to run for a fourth term as prime minister is lamentable news for Italian politics and its economic reforms.

Silvio Berlusconi's announcement last week that he plans to run for a fourth term as prime minister is lamentable news for Italian politics.

And they are all shareholder-owned, profit-seeking enterprises, with global ambitions, lamentable reputations for customer service and a shopping list of fines for mis-selling and other malfeasance.

Beneath the understated ­evidence of Elizabeth Wilmshurst was a dramatic showdown revealing "lamentable" ­contempt for international law within the government.

Scratch the surface, however, and in almost every respect this was a lamentable result for the ruling coalition, its worst ever.

That would be a lamentable fate for the "Great Sea", invoked in a Jewish prayer which gives this book its title.