Sentence examples for lamentably lacking from inspiring English sources

But calm, public discussion of their benefits and drawbacks has been lamentably lacking.

Humbled as we are, we might even begin to recognise the need for social responsibility, a quality in which we have been lamentably lacking up to now.

Totally lacking.

Lamentably, many qualified voters will stay home, some out of apathy or disillusionment but others because they lack the right sort of identification.

He fails lamentably.

Short answer: lamentably.

They travel through the British countryside — now built up and lamentably developed — or the incessant London traffic or contemplate the departure boards at railway stations without seeming to question their own lack of direction.

Congo had become a lamentably failed state.

The developing world remains lamentably underinsured.

"Lamentably," Mr. Gaspar said, "luck eluded him".

Lamentably, this was an opportunity missed.