The real significance is that – as the statistics in the statement itself and the report from the Office for Budget Responsibility confirm – George Osborne's strategy has proved a lamentable failure, and that, not content with that, we are in for more of the same.
Some, such as Veronica Mars, have been worthy contenders, combining tight plotting with strong characterisation and witty dialogue; others, such as the lamentable Ringer, proved that simply casting Sarah Michelle Gellar as the lead (twice over) isn't enough.
His brother, Raúl, helmsman of the erratic Cuban ship since August 2006, when the Sierra Maestra hero renounced total control over the Caribbean island, has proved to be a lamentable orator.
proved that there is a lamentable absence of malice on most nighttime television shows.
It proved stagey and dull, although Heston held his own opposite John Gielgud, and easily outshone Jason Robards as a lamentable Brutus.
He failed to turn around New York's lamentable schools, however, and his vows to trim the city's payroll and restore fiscal prudence proved hollow.
As I trace in my book, this lamentable cast of characters launched the modern drug war, using the District of Columbia as their proving grounds as they imposed aggressive reforms like mandatory minimum sentencing and no-knock searches on Washington before exporting them to the federal government's narcotics agenda.
In a lamentable 5-to-4 ruling in 2009, the court denied a free-standing right of prisoners to obtain postconviction DNA testing that might prove their innocence.
But it is one of the most lamentable frailties of mankind that when one's wrong is most grievous, his self-justification is most passionate, perhaps in the pitiful hope that the fervor of his self-defense will somehow prove him right.
