Sentence examples for lamentable spectacle from inspiring English sources
The moral decline of John McCain continues to be a lamentable spectacle.
By Hendrik Hertzberg March 30, 2010 The moral decline of John McCain continues to be a lamentable spectacle.
This awful event was described in the quaint "Old English" title given to a contemporary engraving depicting the burning as: "A lamentable spectacle of three women, with a child infant brasting out of the Mothers Wombe, being first taken out of the fire, and cast in agayne, and so all burned together in the Isle of Guernsey, 1556 July 18".
Spanish scientists this week wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to protest the closure of the ministry of science and the "lamentable and shameful spectacle" of leading scientists being fired from research institutions because of budget cuts.
Lamentable -- and, alas, predictable -- is the spectacle of the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest court, overturning, to the great delight of the provocateurs, bans imposed by mayors in the south of France that were justified neither by concern for public order nor by the principle of secularity.
"That would be lamentable".
"The result was lamentable.
