This reading touches on everything that is lamentable about Latin American political culture, where despotism and the history of persecuting dissenters frighten decent people into silence.
While in-and-of itself that's lamentable, not least of all because it will only make it harder for original ideas to get produced and seen, it isn't entirely cause for despair.
He says the calls for regulation are "hysterical pleadings" that are "lamentable". Those hysterical pleadings, sir, are the cries from the parents who had to identify their dead child through photos, rather than subject them to the horror of seeing their own beloved and innocent child in barely recognizable condition.
Their disappearance will inconvenience some riders, and that is lamentable.
"We have a recession, and while that's lamentable, it makes the inflation numbers old news".
That is lamentable, but the payment scale -- which reflects the relative wealth of nations in 1973, when it was established -- does need modification.
That's lamentable, for there is a laudable story to tell about the modern Republican Party and the efforts of a Republican president to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans.
This is not a Duke-only problem, it's a national and international trend... So, that's lamentable in general.
The Romans had not solved the problem of the fireproof basilican church a problem that became pressing with the frequent conflagrations in timber-built towns and, not less, the incendiarism that was a lamentable consequence of endemic local wars and the incursions of organized marauders.
Lord Justice Davies, sitting with Mr Justice Wilkie, ruled there had been a "series of errors and irregularities that was simply lamentable" within the individual investigations into the three officers.
