Sentence examples for lamentable tendency from inspiring English sources
Ashtown, as the events surrounding the appearance of the so-called Green Man, in 1932, amply demonstrated, has a lamentable tendency toward municipal panic.
The investigative literature of Whitewater and related scandals is replete with evidence that Mrs. Clinton has a lamentable tendency to treat political opponents as enemies.
This, in Mason's opinion, was the upside of their lamentable tendency to stand outside and lean over the sidewalk to vomit.
Old Nixon hands notice familiar, dark traits in Hillary that The Times, in its endorsement of her candidacy yesterday, called "a fondness for stonewalling" and "a lamentable tendency to treat political opponents as enemies".
In your own words, Mrs. Clinton "has a lamentable tendency to treat political opponents as enemies," "has clearly been less than truthful in her comments to investigators," has been "too eager to follow President Clinton's method of peddling access for campaign donations," and has "a fondness for stonewalling in response to legitimate questions".
Nearly 2,500 years ago, long before Mr. Doubleday didn't invent baseball in 1839, Protagoras characterized our lamentable tendency to portray all complex issues as dichotomies of us against them: "There are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other".
But it is consistent, albeit in a small way, with a lamentable pattern: the tendency of media firms to opt for a leadership structure based on a dominant mogul, weak boards and open scorn for what shareholders regard as the best practice in corporate governance.
In flush times, ignorance of this natural tendency toward solipsism is lamentable; in dark times, as Ms. Kane's play so gruesomely illustrates, it can be dangerous.
"That would be lamentable".
