"sorry circumstances" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to express an apology when someone is in a difficult or unfortunate situation. For example, "I'm sorry for your sorry circumstances."
Having just become an American citizen, I find it ironic that I will be voting in an election of such sorry circumstances that make a travesty out of the democratic process.
That narrative has been beset with sorry circumstances: by the time its construction was completed in 1966, the number of vocations to the Catholic priesthood in Scotland had fallen dramatically, while a Vatican II encyclical from 1965 declared that priests should no longer be trained in the countryside but in the communities they were to serve.
I mean, as a person who would be inclined to sing a keening aria before plunging a dagger into my bereft maternal bosom about the fact that my son opted to leave the house and play Settlers of Catan with his friends instead of watching the weird scientology documentary with his father and me, I can imagine that famous writers have felt compelled to embellish some sorry circumstances.
That was one reaction in the mid-1990's when specialists in New York City's arboreal affairs informed the public that ailanthus altissima -- a tree often cited as a symbol of so many New Yorkers' drive to thrive amid the sorriest circumstances -- was dying in large numbers.
And I frankly was sorry that circumstances proved me to be more right than I ever dreamed".
She refuses to feel sorry for herself, always finding a way to redeem even the most distressing circumstance.
P.M.S.: Sorry, sorry, sorry!
Under these circumstances, sorry, but you're responsible for making your friend whole.
Just as June is "dogged", so Hector's circumstances are "sorry".
He added: "We cannot bring Jack back and under the circumstances saying sorry does not seem enough.
