Sentence examples for to lamentable from inspiring English sources

Seacole admitted to "lamentable blunders" in her remedies, different for each patient.

Making stylish sophistication the crucible of one's reasoning or moral judgments can lead one to lamentable, and laughable places.

And the voice careens crazily, from a just-the-facts tone to awkwardly elevated diction (there are no homes in this book, only "domiciles") to lamentable efforts to introduce local color (the "ragamuffins" who "do-si-do" around the place until they need to "vamoose").

Jokes are made about the salivating, ugly Americans ogling topless sunbathers at European beaches, but the schizophrenic nature of our country's relationship with sex has passed from laughable to lamentable to downright detrimental.

Study, after study, after study attests to that, as they attest to the lamentable level of produce intake in the U.S. as compared to countries that tend to have less obesity and better health.

But at times she seems to have given in to the lamentable fashion in current biography of inventing some conversations.

Indeed, it's the example he set that makes it jarring to see him conform to a lamentable post-presidential model created fairly recently, in historical terms.

Voters were left to shop around for a credible alternative to the lamentable Socialist Party, which only just avoided losing to the Greens, who took 16.3%.

Olga Yermolina, sports correspondent for liberal daily Moskovskiye Novosti, said it was a general "inattention to detail" that had led to the "lamentable results".

Watching someone else earn twenty times what you do, though they have less training, do less public good, and work no harder, can lead a person to commit lamentable acts in an effort to even the score.

The loss of Belle Isle to private purchasers, beholden only to themselves, would be a sad addition to this lamentable list.