Sparta's fans, alas, are not.
Today's domestic robots, alas, do not have such dexterity.
It's the editor's lot, alas, to subsist on reflected glory.
The euro zone's political leaders, alas, are a fractious and underwhelming lot.
But Andante.com's Stokowski box is (alas) a missed opportunity.
Eventually, they never seemed to have it in and then alas, Ratner's was no more.
New York's "Jerry Springer moment," to quote from the show's catchiest song, was alas a criminally short one.
For example, Finus's long alas for Birdie Wells, the unattained love of his life, suffers from a lack of a lass.
But not all Ronson's characters, alas, are harmless eccentrics, and at times they strain the faux-naïf form, a strain Ronson often adeptly foregrounds.
Several chapters in Bellah's book — alas, for those most interested in his scholarship on religion, the early ones — sketch out what evolutionary theories like Donald's can tell us about how religion developed.
The Royal Opera House has revived Jürgen Flimm's staging, not alas a good advert in a week when the company's budget was cut 15%.
