There are many bad and lamentable forces in the world today, but it is those that undermine the belief in human improvement that are demonised as "evil".
Although India is world-famous for the quality of English-speaking technically adept engineers produced by its colleges and institutes, primary and secondary schools are lamentable in many parts of the country.
Yet if everyone were to steal cable, the company would go under -- no more cable TV, no more "Sex in the City" (which many economists would consider lamentable, although I don't see why).
Although, in their defence, facilities have improved greatly since the dire days of the curly sarnie, still too many buffets show a lamentable lack of invention, seeming content to deliver pricey snacks in premises modelled after high street fast food chains.
It's lamentable how many defective products the U.S. education industry sends out of its $660 billion factory.
"What Corporate America Cannot Build: A Sentence" neglects a major source of the lamentable prose of many company employees: the decline of the liberal arts education.
Stephen Bright, director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, comments on the lamentable opinion of many politicians that "the ultimate way to show you're tough is the death penalty".
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.
I can understand the rationale for many of grad school's lamentable qualities.
Griffin's subjectivist position, and the suggestion that even insects such as honeybees are conscious, seemed to many scientists to represent a lamentable return to the anthropomorphic over-interpretation of anecdotes seen in Darwin and Romanes.
