Sentence examples for lamentable things from inspiring English sources

A couple of lamentable things happened on last night's "Game of Thrones" — the neck-stabbing trend continued, for example, in one of the necks we liked — but it was otherwise an almost worryingly thrilling hour in Westeros.

He writes that "the whole place is as bad as a pest house" but says that "it would be indeed a lamentable thing to see so fine a city destroyed".

Edwin Thanhouser would later describe the production as, "...a rather lamentable affair.

Sunday's defeat was a particularly lamentable 9-2 affair.

This country has too much at stake in the lamentable Brexit process for things to go on this way.

"I honestly thought the referees' thing was lamentable," said Peat. "There was far too much complaining.

For Sumption this is lamentable, but the way of things.

He might have gone back to prison in 1817, but fled to the US again, where he missed the sound of English birdsong and found the women beautiful, except for (how things change) the lamentable state of their teeth.

Whereas Marx saw Christianity as a manipulative siren of hollow truths, Mr. Obama's concern is not with the impotence of Christianity, but rather the lamentable reality that religion — still a good thing in itself — often becomes the outlet and endpoint of various frustrations and disappointments generated elsewhere in life.

An argument, angry and sorrowful, by a Roman Catholic who thinks the concentration of authority in the pope has led to ever more lamentable cover-ups of mistakes and assertions of things that are not so.

However, what Levy calls "this lamentable and unwelcome dispute" does matter – a great deal.