Parling has seemingly established himself as a central figure in head coach Stuart Lancaster's new-look England set-up following a lamentable Word Cup campaign, and is looking to cap an extraordinary domestic season by winning the Premiership final against Harlequins on Saturday.
That's old, if lamentable, news.
And even if they could, it is lamentable that the word "sexuality" does not feature in the convention once.
Even if he was no longer in office, Mecham – who, among other lamentable acts, infamously defended using the word "pickaninny" to describe black children – was a worthy target.
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".
"She writes as a participant in her country's lamentable history, and she is a spinning fury, emitting words like sparks, enraged, saved from choking on the absurdities she has been called to witness only by the irresistible need to laugh at them".
While coursework is being phased out in GCSEs and A-levels, for reasons having to do with the lamentable shortage, in many homes, of parents qualified to write 3,000 words on Macbeth, personal statements continue to make parental competence, finances and cultural capital a factor in applications to universities whose graduates will dominate the professions.
The lamentable fact that neither Obama nor Romney mentioned a single word about climate change during the presidential debates or during their campaigns.
"That would be lamentable".
"The result was lamentable.
