Sentence examples for lamentable view from inspiring English sources

The former Green party minister Cécile Duflot said Valls' praise of Marianne's bare breasts gave an indication of the lamentable view of women held by some male French politicians.

White wrote, 'Earthworms, though in appearance s small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.'" View Article By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar By Phil Klay By Masha Gessen.

Scotland fans had to view two lamentable performances and then hear ridiculous comment in their wake.

That variety of "ethnic consciousness," he wrote, "is very much a new phenomenon, an ideological construct, usually of the twentieth century, and not an anachronistic cultural artifact from the past". In short, the West partly created the phenomenon it now views as a lamentable primordial throwback.

But Meyer shows his fair-mindedness by rejecting the equally fashionable view (reinforced by that lamentable film "Gandhi") that Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League were the only culprits.

"As a result of the more eccentric of the Kelly [expenses reform] proposals – which in my view have demonstrated a lamentable lack of understanding of the demands placed upon today's members of parliament – a lot of new MPs are going to find it hard to find the resources to do the job in the way that the public have come to expect.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said: "My party has been clear that in our view we believe that this lamentable human rights situation meant that the British prime minister - like the Canadian and Indian prime ministers - should not attend the summit".

In its first issue, the New-York Daily Times gave this stuffy introduction to a letter about "a lamentable riot" in Lancaster, Pa.: "The common-sense view of the subject which characterizes this production will commend it to the candid reader".

She says this as if thought were a lamentable trait.

What many white Americans first viewed as a necessary if perhaps lamentable institution became seen as a backward one that needed to be abolished.

The question is whether with hindsight such decisions will be viewed as prudent adjustments to reality or lamentable failures of nerve.