Sentence examples for sorry picture from inspiring English sources

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But considered alongside them, it gives yet another sorry picture of a nation in turmoil.

Pay freezes, reductions, new salary scales and below-inflation increases all painted a sorry picture.

It all painted a very sorry picture of the retailers who waste the goods, and we, the consumers who drive their behaviour.

First, the News touted its own success — "daily newsad sales hit record high" — while also noting the "sorry picture of the shrinking business prospects of the New York Post".

Opponents with that view focus only on the individual dimension (too ungenerously for my taste), forgetting that the aggregate impact of individual decisions by doctors, patients, insurers and others creates the sorry picture I described.

Liam Byrne, a shadow minister and MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, called on Morgan to apologise and take more responsibility for the Department for Education's role, as the report had painted a "very sorry picture of oversight".

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I asked her, "Then why were you painting such a dismal picture the last time I talked to you?" She replied, "Oh, sorry.

"Oh, I'm so sorry dear (picture little old lady voice).

Like an annoying person at a party who repeats the last few words in your jokes or a nerd predator on the bus reading your tweets (sorry, I picture all music writers to be intense mouth-breathers with beady shark eyes who only get harmonically atonal synth scales stuck in their heads instead of soft rock bangers like the rest of us).

P.M.S.: Sorry, sorry, sorry!

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

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