Sentence examples for lamentably absent from inspiring English sources
The drama of the unexpected mishap, usually pulsing tangibly through a dinner party, was lamentably absent.
While green issues and the climate have been lamentably absent from this election, I am going to make the prediction that they will dominate the next one.
Giorgetti has an engaging sense of feistiness to his own label, which was lamentably absent under the riffing and - lets be honest - ripping-off of other designers.
A similar linkage between jobs and a low-carbon energy policy could be made in the UK but requires a level of joined-up government, which is lamentably absent at present.
Transparency in financial dealings is lamentably absent and rumours abound of high-level corruption among the elite.Barham Salih, the prime minister of the PUK's government, which controls the eastern part of the self-rule area from Sulaymaniyah, accepts that Baghdad's misdeeds were often used to justify the Kurdish parties' political shortcomings.
There are few vehicles as lamentably absent from North American roads as the Volkswagen Golf GTD MkVI.
But calm, public discussion of their benefits and drawbacks has been lamentably lacking.
Short answer: lamentably.
The developing world remains lamentably underinsured.
