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".
You can read it as an investigation into the nature of freedom, of education, power, war, history, class, enslavement, the English landscape and the workings of the human heart… In our present age of terrible environmental destruction, it can be read most usefully as a book about humanity's lamentable inability to see nature as anything other than a mirror of ourselves".
Surveying the lamentable state of cable news, it's easy to see what's wrong with the media milieu though it's far from clear what kind of new model al-Jazeera might want to pursue.
Her talent was to see the necessity of radical change – a task made easier by the lamentable state of the Labour party – and to push it through with the assistance of huge Commons majorities.
Mr Wilson says he wants to see what difference this investment has made: for example, whether it has improved California's lamentable ranking in reading scores of ten-year-olds, in which it tied with Louisiana as the country's worst.
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.
She speaks about the lamentable lack of female directors in Hollywood -- fewer than 5percentt -- and claims that because most representations of womanhood are conceived through the eyes of men, it's difficult to see herself as anything but ancillary.
If the region is to return to faster expansion, it must raise productivity.In this section Of oil and coconut water Latin America's Korean dream Washing up Taming the beast ReprintsYet here the region has a lamentable record (see chart)—and for familiar reasons: red tape and the informal economy, poor education and infrastructure, and a lack of competition and credit.
It would be lamentable to revert to such a state.
